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

• Presidential troubles for the Polish government as Andrzej Duda queries its latest judicial reform proposals and vetoes the ‘Lex Czarnek 2.0’

• Prime Minister Morawiecki says the European Parliament should ‘clean its own mess’ before ‘lecturing’ member states about the rule of law

• the government refutes criticism of the merger of two of the country’s largest energy companies PKN Orlen and Lotus, and

• the performance of Polish referee Szymon Marciniak in the Qatar World Cup final is widely praised.