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

• Claims of a political motivation as lawyer and former Deputy Prime Minister Roman Giertych is held in a money laundering probe

• Poland and the U.S. sign a nuclear energy cooperation agreement as the government presses ahead with plans for the country’s first nuclear power station

• Much of Poland is now in a Covid-19 ‘red zone’ as case numbers continue to increase, and

• Rafał Trzaskowski finally launches his new political movement Wspólna Polska.