Bloomberg Poland’s new leaders are eroding the country’s democratic record through laws that give the government new powers, three U.S. senators said in a letter to Prime Minister Beata Szydlo. The dispatch by Senators John McCain, Benjamin Cardin and Richard Durbin follows an unprecedented move by the European Union’s executive last month to start a probe into whether rule of ...

London / AFP A British pilots’ union on Monday demanded action after a laser beam dazzled the co-pilot on a New York-bound flight, forcing the Virgin Atlantic jet to turn back shortly following take-off from London’s Heathrow Airport. Police responded to “reports of a laser shone in the direction of a commercial flight that had taken off at Heathrow” on ...

Warsaw / AFP Poland’s controversial bid to convert foreign currency mortgages, mostly in Swiss Francs, into the local zloty currency, could “hurt” the Polish banking sector, a global ratings agency warned on Monday. Moody’s said the move by Poland’s new right-wing government would be “credit negative”, hurting the domestic banking sector’s “ability to lend and absorb future shocks”. “It would ...