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Recent events

• Poland at the 2026 Winter Olympics:
  
  • On 16 February, Kacper Tomasiak (pictured) and Paweł Wąsek won a silver medal in large-hill super-team ski jumping, adding to Tomasiak's silver and bronze medals won in other ski-jumping events.
  • On 13 February, Vladimir Semirunniy won a silver medal in speed skating.
• On 18 November, Włodzimierz Czarzasty of the New Left party was elected Marshal (speaker) of the Sejm (lower house of parliament).
• On 21 October, American Eric Lu won the International Chopin Piano Competition held in Warsaw.

Ongoing

• Constitutional crisis • Belarus–EU border crisis • Ukrainian refugee crisis

Holidays and observances in February 2026
(statutory public holidays in bold)

• Fat Thursday (Polish doughnuts pictured), 12 February
• Valentine's Day, 14 February

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