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

· the Polish government moves decisively to resolve the issue of low-cost Ukrainian grain imports after farmer protests bring about the exit of Henryk Kowalczyk as Agriculture Minister

· Eurostat reports that as of the end of February 989,000 Ukrainian nationals had been granted temporary protection status in Poland

· there’s continuing fallout from the Franciszkańska 3 television program attacking the late Pope Saint John Paul II, and

· tennis star Iga Świątek is named on Time magazine’s 100 most influential people list.