EU to name first permanent president on 19 November

It took just 2 weeks since last state signed Lisbon Treaty and France, Germany and UK are already trying to push through their vision of future EU. The one with back-room deals under cover of the night.

The Swedish presidency has called an EU summit on 19 November to decide on the bloc's new top appointments, with a Polish proposal to hold candidate hearings gaining limited acceptance. more

Polska przeciwna "koronacji" prezydenta UE

Poland: Independence Day

November 11 is Independence Day and a national holiday when Poland remembers gaining her independence in 1918 after over a century of partition. more

Uroczystości z okazji Święta Niepodległości

USA: Prasa krytykuje gazociąg "Ribbentrop-Mołotow"

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WSJ: The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pipeline

The biggest political scandal of modern Europe is in the making. To Germany this project is more important then political and economic unity of EU. And where are Eco activists?

The Nord Stream project is part of an exclusionary agreement between Moscow and Berlin—nicknamed in circumvented Warsaw the "Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact." Russia's geopolitical message here is clear. But what sort of message does Germany intend to send to its neighbors? more

Obama nie chciał świętować zwycięstwa Republikanów???

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UE: Polska sprzeciwia się największym

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Interfax przeprosiła Sikorskiego za "błąd"

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Poland calls for job interviews for EU top appointments

Poland has made a bid to give smaller EU countries more power in the EU president selection process by calling for candidates to hold job interviews in front of the 27 EU leaders.
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Walesa for EU President?

While this commentary is not in any way friendly toward Lech Walesa I think the idea is excellent. I am tired of reading about back room dealings and grand standing by French, Brits, Germans and Italians. This man is a living legend. True, he was not the greatest president Poland ever had. Actually, he was disappointing. But, he also led his country in very difficult times without major failures. He has my vote.

Poland Hits Odd News Section by Proposing Walesa for EU President

Walesa starts the Berlin dominoes falling

I repoerted yesterday that Lech Walesa will be a part of Berlin's celebrations and that he will start a domino fall of a symbolic wall. So, yes he did, but I cannot find one picture from that moment. The only picture I found using Google News was on ... Chinese website (AP Photo). I did find plenty of pictures of Gorbachev, Brown and Sarkozy.

Former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa tipped the first large foam block in Berlin, Monday evening, unleashing a cascade of giant dominoes to symbolise the fall of the wall, twenty years ago. more

But I found something even better. See next post.

Interfax apologizes to Foreign Minister

Russia's Interfax news agency has apologized to Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski for improperly citing the politician regarding alleged “Russian aggression.”
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History of Berlin Wall collapse on video

Thanks to Jim Vicevich who found it and posted it on his website we can show you this short video from ABC.

How a blunder finished off the Wall

Even after events in Poland, the fall of the Wall seemed unthinkable for most of 1989.

And the decision itself was an accident - intended neither to happen the way it did nor to spark off the tumultuous changes that followed. more

Timeline 89 - it began in Poland

As all eyes are on Germany today for the Berlin Wall celebrations, here is a timeline of events of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, 20 years ago, which starts in Poland. more

Walesa to tip the first domino in Berlin

It is a nice gesture toward a leader of Polish freedom movement. Too bad president Obama derided to sit this one out, his presence would give those commemorations even grander scale.

Solidarity icon Lech Walesa will tip the first of a thousand of dominoes later today, lined up to symbolize the Berlin Wall. more

Polish voters in the US, Polonia, should ask their representatives why President of United States did not see those celebration as more important then selection of the venue for the next Olympic Games.