Polish Prime Minister’s Popularity in Decline
Poland’s prime minister saw his public support drop this week after a string of highly publicized blunders and policy U-turns under pressure from the street.
Donald Tusk also faces growing frustration in his junior coalition partner about the government’s pension system plans, which prompted questions about the ruling camp’s stability. Continue reading
Poland to Tax Shale Gas from 2015
The Polish government is working on introducing levies on the production of hydrocarbons in the country, said Finance Minister Jan Vincent-Rostowski. Implementation will take several years. Continue reading
Reporter-activist relishes Poland’s Jewish revival
Poland’s Jewish community today — at 8,000, tiny compared to the 3.4 million before the Holocaust — is on the upswing, though it wasn’t easy to revive Jewish life. Most of Poland’s Holocaust survivors immigrated to Israel or elsewhere. Thousands more were banished in communist purges. Those who remained were, Gebert said, “the least Jewish.” Continue reading
Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award
Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars.
So the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is demanding that Poland’s Association of Folk Artists stop giving out what it calls the “People’s Oskar.” Continue reading
How the European Internet Rose Up Against ACTA
Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland sent a letter to his fellow leaders in the EU Friday urging them to reject ACTA, reversing Poland’s course with the controversial intellectual-property treaty, and possibly taking Europe with them. Continue reading
Polish gas monopoly sues Russian supplier Gazprom
Poland’s gas monopoly PGNiG says it has filed a lawsuit against its Russian supplier Gazprom with an international tribunal in a price dispute. Continue reading
Polish police okay new Warsaw stadium opening
Polish police have said the country’s new national football stadium in Warsaw is safe to open, meaning the key Euro 2012 football venue has cleared its final bureaucratic hurdle, local media reported. Continue reading
Polish folk art society defends its ‘Oskar’ award
Few would confuse the glitz of the Academy Awards with a ceremony held by a folk arts society in Poland, but Hollywood doesn’t want anyone else handing out Oscars. Continue reading
Poland’s Holland, Exploring Holocaust History Again
The film In Darkness tells a remarkable story of survival underground — under the streets, in fact, in the Polish city of Lvov — during World War II. It was directed by acclaimed filmmaker Agnieszka Holland, who knows the subject and the setting firsthand, and it’s one of the five Academy Award nominees for Best Foreign Language Film. Continue reading
Poland surveys the eurozone turmoil: eager to join, but perhaps not yet
The cliched western view of Poland – bogged down by communist inefficiency and rusting tractors – is long gone. This was the only EU economy to avoid contraction in the dark days of 2009, leading the prime minister to describe Polish economic growth (albeit at a modest 1.6%) as a “green island” amid the red sea of recession elsewhere in the union. Continue reading
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