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Security · NATOPress ✓ 5 outlets · MON confirmed the change

Sweden to send a Patriot battery to Rzeszów and take over protection of NATO’s hub for Ukraine from the Dutch in December

About a hundred Swedish soldiers are to protect Rzeszów-Jasionka airport, through which aid for Ukraine flows. The decision runs to the end of the year, and Stockholm wants to extend the mission to June if the Riksdag agrees.

Sweden announced on Tuesday, October 6, that it will send a Patriot air defense system to Poland and take over from the Netherlands the protection of NATO’s logistics hub in Rzeszów-Jasionka, through which aid for Ukraine passes, report Euronews, Defence24 and Notes from Poland. The Netherlands has had its batteries there since December last year. The Swedish unit, about a hundred soldiers and officers, comes mainly from the air defense regiment in Halmstad and will operate under NATO command as part of integrated air and missile defense.

According to Defence24, the government’s decision in Stockholm applies to the end of the year, but Defense Minister Pål Jonson announced an intention to extend the mission to June, provided the Riksdag agrees. Sweden did not say how many Patriot sets will go to Poland. Poland’s Ministry of National Defense (MON) confirmed the change, and Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz thanked the Netherlands for its support so far. Earlier, on September 30, the government in Stockholm announced that from October it would again send Gripen aircraft to NATO’s air policing mission in Poland (Reuters via The Star).

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~100Swedish soldiers in the mission
Decemberstart of the mission in Rzeszów
Juneplanned end after extension, if the Riksdag agrees
Markets · PolandPress ✓ 3 outlets · data per ISBnews, PAP Biznes

WIG20 closes at a record 4,222.36 points (+1.61%); dollar cheaper at PLN 3.8868 per NBP

The WIG20 index closed Tuesday, October 6, at 4,222.36 points, 1.61% above Monday, and the broad WIG at 159,012.30 points (+1.58%). According to PAP Biznes, both indices set record closes. Equity turnover came to PLN 2,374.53 million, of which the largest was in PKO BP (PLN 281.14 million); prices of 175 companies rose, 158 fell and 69 were unchanged (ISBnews).

The NBP average rate for the dollar fell to PLN 3.8868 from PLN 3.9116 on Monday, a drop of 0.63%, according to table no. 194/A/NBP/2026 cited by money.pl; the morning market rate at 7:00 there was about PLN 3.9069. In the US, the S&P 500 closed at 7,818.93 points (+0.58%).

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The highest level in an index’s history at the end of a session, as opposed to an intraday record, which can be only momentary.

Science · NobelPress ✓ 5 outlets · per the announcement of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences

Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for detecting cosmic neutrinos in Antarctic ice

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Tuesday, October 6, that the Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube neutrino observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin,” report Al Jazeera, Khaleej Times and Il Sole 24 Ore. Halzen, an 82-year-old physicist born in Belgium, works at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and leads the IceCube project, a detector made of light sensors sunk in the ice at the South Pole.

As the media report, in 1988 Halzen noticed that the ice at the South Pole could be used to detect cosmic neutrinos, particles that interact so weakly with matter that they are called ghost particles. The prize is worth 12 million Swedish kronor (about $1.2 million) and will be presented on December 10 in Stockholm. Unlike Monday’s prize in medicine, this one goes to a single person.

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Economy · NBPPress ✓ 3 outlets · report due to be adopted on Friday

Sejm committee on Tuesday closed the evidence stage in the State Tribunal case against NBP governor Glapiński

The Sejm’s Committee on Constitutional Accountability on Tuesday, October 6, closed the stage of gathering evidence and hearings on the motion to bring NBP governor Adam Glapiński before the State Tribunal, report money.pl and Superbiz. Committee chairman Zdzisław Gawlik said that preparation of the final report had already begun. The committee heard more than 50 witnesses, including former prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, Monetary Policy Council members Joanna Tyrowicz and Ludwik Kotecki, and the head of the Polish Financial Supervision Authority Jacek Jastrzębski.

Glapiński himself did not use his right to give explanations, and the NBP considers the charges entirely baseless and is not taking part in the procedure. The committee is to adopt the final document on Friday, October 9; it contains a recommendation to the Sejm either to hold Glapiński to account or to discontinue the proceedings. A Sejm resolution requires an absolute majority of votes with at least 230 deputies present, and passing it would suspend the NBP governor from his duties (according to money.pl).

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Politics · CoalitionPress ✓ 3 outlets · content of the conversation unconfirmed

Czarzasty on Kosiniak-Kamysz’s conversation with Trump: even if a proposal was made, the deputy prime minister did not accept it

Sejm Marshal Włodzimierz Czarzasty said that even if a proposal concerning the coalition was made in the conversation with Donald Trump, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz did not accept it, which in the marshal’s view shows his wisdom and loyalty to his partners (TVP Info). Czarzasty also called on the opposition, including Adam Bielan and PiS, to help Poland if it has access to Trump. What is new compared with yesterday’s edition: the first version came out on October 2 from Dominika Wielowieyska of Gazeta Wyborcza, and reactions have appeared in the coalition.

Kosiniak-Kamysz describes the conversation as brief and courteous, Prime Minister Donald Tusk speaks of the domestic situation in Poland, and Bielan and Nikodem Rachoń deny that a proposal to change the government was made (OKO.press, Notes from Poland). Neither version is confirmed by a document or a recording.

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In brief
  • WIG20 4,222.36 points (+1.61%) and WIG 159,012.30 (+1.58%), record closesISBnews, PAP Biznes
  • Dollar PLN 3.8868 per NBP (−0.63%)money.pl
  • S&P 500 7,818.93 (+0.58%), WTI $89.44 (+0.01%), gold $4,187.1 (+0.73%) on Tuesdaymarket data
  • Maximum prices for Wednesday: 95 petrol up to PLN 6.86Polsat News, xyz.pl
  • Nobel Prize in Physics to Francis HalzenAl Jazeera, Khaleej Times
  • Sweden to send Patriot to RzeszówEuronews, Defence24
  • Committee closed the evidence stage in the Glapiński casemoney.pl, Superbiz
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Unverified — what we could not confirm

“Sweden is sending an entire Patriot set to Poland permanently.” The decision applies to the end of the year, with an intention to extend to June if the Riksdag agrees; the number of sets was not given (Defence24).
“The Sejm has already brought Glapiński before the State Tribunal.” The committee closed only the evidence stage; it is to adopt its report on Friday, and a Sejm resolution requires 230 deputies and an absolute majority (money.pl, Superbiz).
“The Nobel in physics went to the whole IceCube team.” The prize went to one laureate, Francis Halzen (Al Jazeera, Khaleej Times).
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