Poland’s main news stories over the past week have included:

• The government imposes a further tightening of Covid-19 restrictions including a two week closure for more businesses

• Poland calls for international actions against Belarus following the detention of leading figures from the Polish minority there

• Controversy continues to swirl around PKN Orlen President Daniel Obajtek as a Prawo iSprawiedliwość Sejm member denies any impropriety in a past intervention in his favour, and

• A New Yorker magazine article’s description of Poland’s role during the Nazi German Holocaust of Jews provokes a furious response.