Polish citizens protested this week to their government signing onto ACTA, voicing concerns that the adoption of its provisions would shift so much power to copyright holders that the people’s fundamental rights to digital privacy would be impaired. With the government going forward anyway, what will the protests accomplish? Read more…
POLISH police are getting English lessons in order to prepare them for the influx of football fans.
Gardai will also be travelling to Poland in the coming months to advise the police force about how Irish fans behave and how to defuse any situations involving drunk fans. Read more…
Kazimierz Smolen, a 91-year-old Auschwitz survivor who became director of the memorial site after World War II, died yesterday on the 67th anniversary of its liberation. Read more…
Poland’s economy expanded at the quickest pace in three years in 2011 as companies boosted investment and a weakening zloty buoyed exports. Read more…
The day after the contentious Bulgarian vote Polish Treasury Minister Mikolaj Budzanowski told reporters that Polish companies with permits to explore for shale gas in the country must intensify drilling to start production of the fuel by 2014 or 2015, with Polish companies each drilling 12 wells and performing 12 hydraulic fracking operations annually. Read more…
Despite the European debt crisis, Poland’s economy grew a brisk 4.3 percent in 2011, even more than its strong 3.9 percent growth rate for 2010. Read more…
The Polish Supreme Audit Office (NIK) has found numerous violations in the organization of flights for top officials in the Polish Armed Forces between 2005 and 2010, Gazeta Wyborcza reported on Thursday. Read more…
The region’s first full-year 2011 data is due Friday via a first reading of Poland’s gross domestic product. Read more…
Poland deserves an increase in its credit rating this year as economic growth helps boost investor confidence, said Krzysztof Kalicki, the chief executive of Deutsche Bank AG’s local unit said. Read more…
Inch by grimy inch, a group of volunteers at a Polish railway museum is scraping away at decades of rust and soot to restore old locomotives to their former glory.
Their enthusiasm for steam doesn’t stop with the painstaking labour. Several of the volunteers are happy to pay 400 euros ($500) to “adopt” a century-old heavy hauler. Read more…
