Canadian’s fight to bring sons home from Poland continues; ruling on May 29
A Polish court is expected to make a decision at the end of the month in the case of an Ontario man fighting to have his two sons returned to him.
Stephen Watkins gained custody of his sons, aged 8 and 10, after he split with his wife Edyta. She and the boys vanished in March 2009 only to emerge two years later in Poland, her native country. Continue reading
Harper to meet with Polish PM
Trade and natural resources are expected to top the agenda when Prime Minister Stephen Harper sits down with his Polish counterpart in Ottawa Monday.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk is in Canada on a three-day working visit.
Harper and Tusk will have a tete-a-tete in the morning before attending a reception on Parliament Hill with members of Canada’s polish community. Continue reading
Chicago’s Poles Eager For Visit From Their President During NATO Summit
“The polish community is very excited and we’re looking forward to (Komorowski) spending as much time as possible in the community,” Kobelinski said.
Even though they’re now living in Chicago, local Poles are still connected to their homeland and its president. Continue reading
AJC Applauds U.S. Presidential Award to Jan Karski, Commitment to Prevent Genocide
AJC applauded President Obama’s announcement today that he will honor Jan Karski posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Karski was a renowned Polish diplomat who played an instrumental role in Poland’s anti-Nazi resistance movement during the Holocaust, and in seeking to focus world attention on the Nazi Final Solution against the Jews. Continue reading
£50m a year bill to extradite Poles wanted for minor offences
The cost to Britain of deporting Polish criminal suspects to face justice in their home country has doubled in two years to £50m a year, it has emerged.
Each week, suspects wanted for crimes in Poland are extradited by an 80-seater Polish military transport plane from Biggin Hill airport in Kent. Continue reading
Poles earn four times as much in UK, pressure group claims
The pressure group Migration Watch UK says that the minimum wage in this country is also more than twice as high as average earnings of Poland, taking into account the differing cost of living.
It calculates that a Polish family living in Britain could save a fifth of what they take home and still enjoy a better lifestyle than they did in eastern Europe. Continue reading
Polish single mother in Norfolk fears losing young son in extradition row
A single mother detained under a European arrest warrant (EAW) fears she will have to hand her young child to local authority care if she loses her battle against extradition to Poland.
The case of Natalia Gorczowska, 23, wanted in her native country for failing to complete a suspended sentence for a minor drugs offence, is being cited as an example of the conveyor belt-style of justice enforced by the EAW system. Continue reading
Bad blood
Polish-Lithuanian ties are ancient but increasingly acrimonious
BAFFLINGLY bad and getting dangerously worse. That is how Polish-Lithuanian ties seem to outsiders. The two countries share six centuries of overlapping history (and sometimes geography), but remember it differently, Lithuanians, some 3m of them, think Poland is arrogant and interfering. Poland, 12 times larger, thinks Lithuania mistreats its ethnic Polish minority—around 8% of the population—and fails to keep its promises. Continue reading
Hillary Rodham Clinton Remarks With Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski
Well, hello, everyone. And it’s a delight once again to see my counterpart and friend, and to welcome Minister Sikorski here to the State Department. Poland is a very good friend and a trusted ally. We have deep historical and cultural ties that we cherish. Poland has just completed its tenure as the president of the European Union, where, once again, it demonstrated its leadership. It’s a model and a mentor for emerging democracies; a force for peace, progress, and prosperity around the globe. And the foreign minister and I had a great deal to talk about, but these conversations will continue in our Strategic Dialogue among our officials later this week. Continue reading
Polish giant buys B.C. miner
Poland’s KGHM copper giant on Tuesday finalized a $2.9-billion-Cdn deal for Vancouver-based Quadra Mining, the miner said in a statement on its website. Continue reading
