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
Polish president wants Communism museum
Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski said it is finally time for Poland to have a museum devoted to the crimes of communism.
During a debate on history curricula in Polish schools Monday, Komorowski said Poland could no longer be the only central and eastern European country without such a museum. Communists controlled Poland from 1945 to 1989. Continue reading
France election: Polish PM denies boycott of Hollande
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has denied boycotting French Socialist presidential candidate Francois Hollande as he visits Poland. Continue reading
Polish president vetoes bill allowing GMO seeds
Poland’s President Bronislaw Komorowski on Wednesday vetoed a new legislation that would allow some genetically modified seeds in the country, saying it ran against European Union rules. Continue reading
Polish foreign policy: Goodbye high drama
BRONISÅAW KOMOROWSKI’s first foreign jaunt as Poland’s newly-minted president was never going to get politicians’ and pundits’ hearts racing. In this respect, the three-day tour of Europe, which began on September 1st in Brussels, before notching up Paris and Berlin, didn’t disappoint. Continue reading
New Polish president calls for unity as election rival shuns inauguration
POLISH PRESIDENT Bronislaw Komorowski has urged cross-party unity to agree economic and education reforms during his inauguration in Warsaw yesterday.
In a ceremony overshadowed by the air crash in Smolensk in which his predecessor, Lech Kaczynski, died, Mr Komorowski reached out in his inaugural address to supporters of rival Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who failed in his attempt to succeed his late twin. Continue reading
Wulff, Komorowski want to strengthen Polish-German relations
Germany’s new President Christian Wulff visited Poland Tuesday to meet president-elect Bronislaw Komorowski. It was the president’s first state visit to Germany’s eastern neighbor.
On his first visit to Poland as Germany’s new president on Tuesday, Christian Wulff met with president-elect Bronislaw Komorowski and pledged to strengthen Polish-German relations. Continue reading
Komorowski rejects plane crash plot theory
Poland’s president-elect Bronislaw Komorowski rejected the theory of a plot behind the plane crash in Russia that killed his predecessor and other Polish officials, in an interview published Saturday. Continue reading
Poland’s new Catholic president gets mixed reviews from bishops
Polish bishops have given a mixed reception to their country’s new president, Bronislaw Komorowski, a 58-year-old Catholic father of five and former seminary history teacher.
“I see him as a man of ideas with many personal qualities, a person of dialogue who can also listen — I think this election serves Poland well,” said Archbishop Henryk Muszynski of Gniezno. Continue reading
President Komorowski: victorious but soon to be obscure
WITH 95 percent of the votes counted, Bronisław Komorowski, candidate of the ruling Civic Platform, has won the presidential run-off, beating Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of the opposition Law and Justice Party with 52.63% of the vote to 47.3%, Continue reading
