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Poland wants Euro 2012 to showcase its success [Feb 01, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland hopes Euro 2012 will attract about a million tourists and showcase its economic success and political stability at a time when a debt crisis has engulfed most of the European continent, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha told Reuters. Poland and Ukraine will co-host the European soccer games in June and July and Warsaw has pegged an ambitious infrastructure building programme ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish finance minister says no target date for euro entry yet [Feb 01, 2012] BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski denied on Monday that Poland was planning to adopt the euro in 2015, after a senior European Union official said Warsaw was targeting that date ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland wants Euro 2012 to showcase its success [Jan 31, 2012] WARSAW, Jan 31 (Reuters) - Poland hopes Euro 2012 will attract about a million tourists and showcase its economic success and political stability at a time when a debt crisis has engulfed most of the European continent, Sports Minister Joanna Mucha told Reuters. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish finance minister says no target date for euro entry yet [Jan 30, 2012] BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Polish Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski denied on Monday that Poland was planning to adopt the euro in 2015, after a senior European Union official said Warsaw was targeting that date ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland fears U.S. defense cuts make it vulnerable to Russia [Jan 25, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland fears planned defense cuts by the United States may stall the development of an anti-missile system on Polish soil and leave it more vulnerable to Russia, a senior government source said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland fears US defence cuts make it vulnerable to Russia [Jan 24, 2012] WARSAW, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Poland fears planned defence cuts by the United States may stall the development of an anti-missile system on Polish soil and leave it more vulnerable to Russia, a senior government source said. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland fears U.S. defense cuts make it vulnerable to Russia [Jan 24, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland fears planned defense cuts by the United States may stall the development of an anti-missile system on Polish soil and leave it more vulnerable to Russia, a senior government source said. U.S. President Barack Obama's drive to cut nearly half a trillion dollars in defense spending over the next 10 years means Washington is reviewing already announced programs to reflect ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to put Hitler's forest lair on tourist trail [Jan 19, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is looking for an investor to turn the "Wolf's Lair" of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a tourist attraction. The ruins of Hitler's fortress complex deep in the woodlands of northeastern Poland is famed as the site of an assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and popularized by a 2008 film starring Tom Cruise. The Wolf's Lair served as one of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Jan 18, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland to put Hitler's forest lair on tourist trail [Jan 18, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland is looking for an investor to turn the "Wolf's Lair" of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler into a tourist attraction. The ruins of Hitler's fortress complex deep in the woodlands of northeastern Poland is famed as the site of an assassination attempt on Hitler by Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg and popularized by a 2008 film starring Tom Cruise. The Wolf's Lair served as one of ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland's Oscar hopeful revives ghosts of Holocaust [Jan 18, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - Polish director Agnieszka Holland will take her third shot at an Academy Award with a dark film that dwells on the ambiguous attitudes of her countrymen towards the Nazi Holocaust. Holland's "In Darkness" recounts the World War Two exploits of Leopold Socha, whose efforts to help Jews evade capture by the Nazi forces in Poland led Israel's Yad Vashem institute to place him ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish court: martial law imposed by "criminal group" [Jan 13, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - The communist leaders who imposed martial law in Poland 30 years ago were part of a criminal enterprise trying to crush the Solidarity trade union, a court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims that they had acted to avert a Soviet invasion. Various Polish courts have struggled over the years to decide whether the communists led by General Wojciech Jaruzelski acted illegally when ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish court: martial law imposed by "criminal group" [Jan 12, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - The communist leaders who imposed martial law in Poland 30 years ago were part of a criminal enterprise trying to crush the Solidarity trade union, a court ruled Thursday, rejecting claims that they had acted to avert a Soviet invasion. Various Polish courts have struggled over the years to decide whether the communists led by General Wojciech Jaruzelski acted illegally when ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish prosecutor shoots himself after news conference [Jan 12, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head on Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish prosecutor shoots himself after news conference [Jan 12, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head on Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services. [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland: Prosecutor Shoots Himself After News Conference [Jan 10, 2012] WARSAW: A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services, reported Reuters . [via YahooNews] More >>

Poland: Prosecutor Shoots Himself After News Conference [Jan 10, 2012] WARSAW: A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services, reported Reuters . [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish prosecutor shoots self after news conference [Jan 10, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head on Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services. Mikolaj Przybyl was taken to hospital in the western city of Poznan after reporters heard a gunshot and hurried back to find him lying slumped on the floor in a ... [via YahooNews] More >>

Key political risks to watch in Poland [Jan 10, 2012] WARSAW , Jan 9 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Donald Tusk 's domination of Polish politics looks unassailable three months after his centre-right party won re-election but an economic slowdown sparked by the euro zone crisis could erode public support for painful reforms. [via YahooNews] More >>

Polish prosecutor shoots self after news conference [Jan 09, 2012] WARSAW (Reuters) - A Polish military prosecutor shot himself in the head Monday after cutting short a news conference in what appeared to be a dramatic protest in a turf war between Poland's civilian and military prosecution services. Mikolaj Przybyl was taken to hospital in the western city of Poznan after reporters heard a gunshot and hurried back to find him lying slumped on the floor in a ... [via YahooNews] More >>