Poland’s lawmakers voted on Thursday to approve the key 2024 state budget but the draft still needs approval from President Andrzej Duda, who is allied with the right-wing opposition. The budget also requires endorsement from the Senate and must be presented for Duda’s signing by Jan. 29 or the president could call early elections. Observers say such a move would be unlikely even though Duda has repeatedly tangled with the new government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk, which is taking steps to reverse some of his predecessors' policies and is bringing some former officials to account.
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(OSV News) Polish church leaders have welcomed renewed calls for the beatification of a popular priest, Father Franciszek Blachnicki (1921-1987), following official confirmation that he was killed by communist secret police agents. Most Poles still feel a sense of unfulfilled justice, and the murder of priests forms part of this particularly when attempts to uncover the truth still face impediments, said Father Piotr Mazurkiewicz, former secretary-general of COMECE, the Commission of th