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Euro 2012 co-host Poland prods Ukraine on Tymoshenko [May 09, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland urged Ukraine on Wednesday to drop laws allowing politicians to be jailed for decisions in office, seeking to ease a row over the imprisonment of Yulia Tymoshenko that could mar the Euro soccer championship the two will co-host soon. The escalating controversy over the treatment of the main political rival of President Viktor Yanukovich has prompted several European ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland honors president killed in 2010 plane crash [Apr 17, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish politicians held dueling observances Tuesday for President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others killed two years ago in a plane crash in Russia, as conspiracy theories about the crash still smoldered. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland honors president killed in 2010 plane crash [Apr 17, 2012] WARSAW, Poland (AP) - Polish politicians held dueling observances Tuesday for President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others killed two years ago in a plane crash in Russia, as conspiracy theories about the crash still smoldered. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland honors president killed in 2010 plane crash [Apr 10, 2012] Polish politicians held dueling observances Tuesday for President Lech Kaczynski and 95 others killed two years ago in a plane crash in Russia, as conspiracy theories about the crash still smoldered. [via YahooNews] More >>

Breaking silence, Poles talk about CIA prison [Apr 01, 2012] WARSAW, Poland - For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public. [via YahooNews] More >>

CIA Secret Prison: Polish Leaders Break Silence About Black Site [Mar 31, 2012] WARSAW, Poland -- For years, the notion that Poland could allow the CIA to operate a secret prison in a remote lake region was treated as a crackpot idea by the country's politicians, journalists and the public. [via YahooNews] More >>

Chicago Area Pols Pushing For Visa Waiver For Poland [Feb 12, 2012] Several Chicago aldermen and other local politicians with Polish roots -- or Polish American constituents -- are pushing a resolution in the City Council to ask the federal government to do away with the visa requirement for Polish citizens. [via YahooNews] More >>

ACTA on the edge in Europe? Poland suspends ratification, Greece gets hacked [Feb 03, 2012] Anger at last month's decision by the European Union and 22 of its member states to sign the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) has led to widespread protests, hacked Web sites, and legislators backing away from the treaty. The anti-ACTA protests that saw Polish politicians don Guy Fawkes masks in parliament have borne fruit. After experiencing a considerable backlash in Poland, Prime ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish parliament to buy 500 iPads for lawmakers [Dec 23, 2011] Politicians in Poland will switch from paper to digital when working on laws in the country's parliament, following an approval to purchase up to 500 top-of-the-line iPads for Sejm legislators, according to a report in the Polish business publication Wyborcza. Each of the 460 members will get a 64GB 3G-enabled iPad 2 at a cost of roughly $400,000. The move will replace paper and notebook ... [via YahooNews] More >>

In Polish election, government challenged by rival who accuses it of murder [Oct 05, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Poland?s centrist ruling party was campaigning hard to maintain its lead before weekend elections, fending off challenges from a new socially liberal party and a traditional rival that has accused it of responsibility for a plane crash that killed a generation of top politicians. Prime Minister Donald Tusk?s Civic Platform appeared headed to re-election after four years of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

News: Fallout 3 inspires Polish political vid [Sep 08, 2011] Warsaw what you did there. Polish political party Poland Comes First has produced a video undeniably inspired by Fallout 3. The video begins with a close-up of an old television set, its screen showing black and white photos presumably of Polish politicians. The camera pulls slowly backwards. And through a space where a wall once stood, a post-apocalyptic cityscape with half-destroyed and ... [via YahooNews] More >>

News: Fallout inspires Polish political video [Sep 08, 2011] Warsaw what you did there. Polish political party Poland Comes First has produced a video undeniably inspired by Fallout. The video begins with a close-up of an old television set, its screen showing black and white photos presumably of Polish politicians. The camera pulls slowly backwards. And through a space where a wall once stood, a post-apocalyptic cityscape with half-destroyed and charred ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Barack Obama [Aug 28, 2011] On 27 May, as part of his European tour to visit a working visit to Poland. The first day of the visit will be devoted to meeting with participants of the Summit of Heads of Central-Eastern Europe, and has held a meeting May 28 the U.S. president with Polish politicians, says tvp.info. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish prosecutors investigate newspaper for leaking state secrets in report on CIA prison [Jun 03, 2011] WARSAW, Poland ? Polish prosecutors say they are investigating a newspaper for leaking state secrets from a probe into a CIA prison that operated in Poland about eight years ago. The Gazeta Wyborcza daily reported Monday that a prosecutor who was recently removed from a three-year investigation on the CIA site had planned to bring criminal charges against Polish politicians in power when the now ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Wikileaks: Poland doubted US sincerity [Apr 14, 2011] A little over a month before US President Barack Obama?s first visit to Poland, new Wikileaks cables confirm that a few months into Mr Obama's presidency, top Polish politicians were worried about the status of Polish-US relations. [via YahooNews] More >>

Brussels to Warsaw: curb spending now [Feb 09, 2011] Brussels has sent a clear message to Poland's politicians: find ways to drastically cut your spending. The EU wants Warsaw to cut its public finance deficit from 7.9 percent to three percent of the country's GDP in the next three years, reports Rzeczpospolita . [via YahooNews] More >>