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Is it the end of the line for Libertas? Despite big expectations of winning 100 seats in the European Parliament, the pan-European anti-Lisbon Treaty party Libertas suffered a striking and harrowing defeat in the European elections with the only captain saving the sinking ship. European Commissioners suffer Libertas’ slings and arrows  Two European Commissioners have been blamed by Libertas Chairman Declan Ganley for what he said was a violation of European Union rules by participating in the national parties‘s European election campaigns in their home countries, Szczecin shipyard finds investor United International Trust has bought the historic Szczecin shipyard, the site of strikes that helped bring down the country's Communist regime, Poland's Treasury Minister Aleksander Grad said on May 16. The investor is the same Poles furious at EU YouTube video omission A video clip from the European Commission was meant to educate thousands on YouTube about the fall of Communism, but it left many angry in Poland as they complained their country had been ignored. The Kaczynski slashes pensions to former Communists Polish President Lech Kaczynski has signed an act that cuts pensions to former Communist security services and military council members, according to an announcement on his website on February 6. The law, passed by parliament Beijing issues mild rebuke to Warsaw over Dalai Lama meeting  China protested on December 11 in an uncharacteristically mild manner a private meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and the Dalai Lama that took place a day earlier in Warsaw. Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Jianchao China says Sarkozy to blame for Summit collapse  China said the postponement of an EU-China Summit in France scheduled for December 1 was the fault of French President Nicolas Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating European Union presidency until the end of the Sarkozy to meet Dalai Lama, but EU treaty talks stall  French President Nicolas Sarkozy said he would meet the Dalai Lama in Poland next month, but Poland’s president would not be available for talks on the EU’s stalled reform treaty, it was confirmed by French EU gears up for global financial overhaul at Brussels Summit  European Union leaders last week stayed on track of the expected policy of agreeing to nod the financial package through but postponed the final agreement on climate change policy to the December Summit. With the EU gives Poland more time to save Solidarity shipyards The European Commission last week called on Poland to repay back a huge amount of state aid it provided to its ailing shipyards, but agreed to give the government more time to come up with a privatisation plan. The Bronislaw Geremek: The End of an Era On July 13, Professor Bronislaw Geremek, Deputy of the European Parliament and member of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe, Polish historian and statesman died in a car accident near Nowy Tomysl, Western Poland while driving his car. His The Polish shipyard plan is now in the EU’s hands Poland on June 26 presented the European Commission with a rescue plan for the country’s ailing shipyards. Confirming that it had received a plan on how to privatise the yards at Szczecin, Gdansk and Gdynia, Ukrainian firm to buy Gdansk shipyard  A company owned by Ukraine's powerful Donbas Industrial Union is to acquire a controlling stake in Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard, the 1980s cradle of the freedom fighting Solidarity trade union that brought down communism in The worst Polish Jokes: Kaczynski and Kaczynski Two Polish hunters were driving through the country to go bear hunting. They came upon a fork in the road where a sign read “BEAR LEFT.” So they went home.Q: How did the Germans conquer Kaczynski loses in TV face-off with Kwasniewski On October 1, in a televised debate, Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski narrowly lost to left-wing ex-president Aleksander Kwasniewski. The much-anticipated debate failed to inject excitement into a lacklustre campaign ahead of the October 21 Former president slams Polish twins In an interview published by the German weekly Vanity Fair, former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski recently accused Polish President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski of "ruining" the country, along with its relations with Solidarity shipyard may be going under by the bow The European Commission moved a step closer to deciding the fate of Poland’s Gdansk shipyard on August 21 as its experts began assessing a Polish proposal to save the troubled plant. “The Gdansk shipyard has Former presidents issue warning over democracy violations A statement was issued on May 18 expressing concern over the way "democratic standards" were treated by the government by former Polish presidents Lech Walesa and Aleksander Kwasniewski, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) reported. They warned that A celebration with European Nobel Prize winners  A celebration with Nobel Prize laureates in the European Parliament featured winners like Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan, whose dream of peace in Northern Ireland is coming true, and featured those who fought for human Skype claims phone calls will be free in 10 years Talking on the phone will be free within a decade, Niklas Zennstrom, creator of the globally popular free internet communicator Skype predicted on September 14 in Warsaw. “Skype’s vision has always been to make everyone Walesa recalls partingways with Solidarity  Lech Walesa, legendary leader of Poland?s freedom - fighting Solidarity trade union, has parted ways with the organisation after it endorsed twin brothers Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski and their right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party Ex-president Kwasniewski ?plans Cuban round table? Former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski plans to gather leading intellectuals and former statesmen for a round table meeting on the future of Cuba, Poland?s RMF commercial radio reported last Tuesday. Kwasniewski, who served two terms Grass asked to give up Gdansk citizenship over SS past Poland’s governing Law and Justice party (PiS) last week called on Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass to give up his honorary citizenship of the Polish Baltic port city of Gdansk after he recently admitted Poland in EU, NATO thanks to Solidarity Poland's membership of the European Union and NATO "is the rooted in the democratic success of the Solidarity trade union," Poland's President Lech Kaczynski said on Thursday in Gdansk at ceremonies marking twenty-six years since the Grass asked to give up Gdansk citizenship over SS past Poland’s governing Law and Justice party (PiS) last week called on Nobel Prize-winning German writer Guenter Grass to give up his honorary citizenship of the Polish Baltic port city of Gdansk after he recently admitted Commemorations of 1st anti-communist revolt  Presidents of Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary and Slovakia converged last Wednesday on Poznan, western Poland, to mark the 50th anniversary of the Poznan workers’ revolt. The bloody June 1956 revolt was viewed by Budget airlines bring travel boom to Poland Poland has emerged as Europe’s fastest growing airline market on the wings of an influx of budget carriers, with analysts noting ample room for further growth, it was reported recently. In 2004, its first year Walesa and Kwasniewski have a meeting of the minds An historic rift between Poland’s ex- President and Solidarity legend Lech Walesa and his successor, President Alexander Kwasniewski, appeared to be over last weekend as the two made merry at Walesa’s popular annual name-day bash. Trouble brews for Portuguese supermarket chain in Poland Portuguese food distributor and retailer Grupo Jeronimo Martins is facing a two million zloty (USD 600,000) class action suit by 100 ex-employees over what they claim are thousands of hours of unpaid overtime at the After “Polish plumber,” “nurse” lures tourists It was meant as nothing more than an ironic riposte to exaggerated Western European fears of an influx of inexpensive Polish tradesmen, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) said in a report last week. Unexpectedly, it’s turned into |
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China is presenting its ascent not as a power shift, but as a paradigm shift. The worldwide economic recession has had European Union businesses keenly eyeing China for continuing markets, Showing there is still some major differences between the European Union and China in areas |
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