The main news stories in Poland over the past week have included:

• Poland and Hungary withhold consent to the new EU budget and Covid-19 economic rescue fund over linkage of funding to the ‘rule of law’ question

• Differing visions of the role of the European Union and well as internal political dynamics within the ruling bloc in Poland feature in the reasons for the current impasse

• Prime Minister Morawiecki says they is no need for a national lockdown now as Covid-19 case numbers ease back somewhat and

• A man is charged over the apartment fire arising from an incident at the Independence Day March.