Polish golden vodka out - German vodka in!

Poland’s Goldwasser vodka brand with herbs and small particles of gold is to disappear from shops be replaced an inferior German version of it.
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Mobile TV in Warsaw

The firm INFO-TV-FM, a radio diffusion operator chosen by the Office of Electronic Communications to offer mobile television, has began offering broadcast services in Warsaw.
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Polish and US National Parks cooperate

A delegation of the Rocky Mountain National Park in the United States have started a study visit to the Tatra National Park.
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Outcry over Polanski's detention

Politicians and Hollywood heavyweights have rallied behind director Roman Polanski following his arrest.
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New wave of MEPs more wary of Russia, EU parliament chief says

Members of the European Parliament from central and eastern Europe have brought a different perspective on Russia and energy security to Brussels, the president of the EU legislature, Jerzy Buzek, said in an interview
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Poland to ask for Polanski pardon

Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski, alongside his French counterpart, is to ask President Obama to pardon Roman Polanski, the director now in a Swiss jail awaiting extradition to the US.
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Appeal to Obama to support Auschwitz Museum

Forty five congressmen have called on President Barrack Obama for financial help for the Auschwitz Museum.
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Roman Polanski detained in Zurich

Director Roman Polanski has been taken into custody on a 31-year-old US arrest warrant.
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Poland to order more Rosomaks

Minister of Defense Bogdan Klich wants to beef up Poland’s defenses with the purchase of 800 Rosomak tanks by the year 2018.
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EU court threatens cap-and-trade system

The European Union's cap-and-trade system for curbing CO2 emissions has been threatened by its own Court of First Instance, which found that it had imposed illegitimate quotas on Poland and Estonia.
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70 years on, Polish resolution condemns crimes under Stalin

At the beginning of World War II, the Soviet invasion of Poland led to massive loss of life in prison camps and massacres. A new resolution from the Polish parliament condemns the invasion - and irks Russia.
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Ukraine exposes Katyn executioners

In a week where Polish and Russian parliaments throw angry resolutions at each other over historical interpretations of WW II, Poland has received documents from Ukraine containing the names of NKVD officers responsible for the 1940 Katyn massacre.
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Poland to chemically castrate pedophiles

MPs in the lower house of parliament have voted for Poland to become the first nation in the EU to chemical castrate pedophiles.
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Ukraine exposes Katyn executioners

In a week where Polish and Russian parliaments throw angry resolutions at each other over historical interpretations of WW II, Poland has received documents from Ukraine containing the names of NKVD officers responsible for the 1940 Katyn massacre.
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Poland reconsidering Afghanistan

The Polish Ministry of Defense has commissioned two advisers to draw up an analysis of Poland’s involvement in the Afghanistan mission.

It's not a surprise to anybody watching political debates in Poland. Majority of Polish voters are against this mission. Government tells voters that this responsibility comes with the NATO membership and that it is also a test for the military, but the doubts are there. Now, with Obama's lack of clear strategy and voices in his own party to pull out (not to mention obvious sellout to Russia), the issue is raised again.
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Poland wins CO2 emmissions court battle

The European Court of First Instance has overturned a 2007 EC decision on allocation of Poland’s greenhouse gas emmissions for the 2009-2012 period.
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Parliament passes 1939 Soviet invasion resolution

Poland’s lower house of parliament has issued a resolution condemning the Soviet invasion of Poland at the start of WW II.
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Kaczynski not hiding disappointment in New York

President Kaczynski has said that if he meets President Obama at today’s UN General Assembly he will not try to hide his disappointment over the anti-missile shield decision.
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Poles against troops in Afghanistan

A majority of Poles are against the Polish military mission in Afghanistan, according to a new opinion poll.
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Polish umbrella to replace US anti-missile system?

Poland’s state owned arms manufacturer Bumar has proposed an alternative anti-missile “protective umbrella” for the region. They claim to be capable of designing protective umbrellas not only for Poland but also neighbouring countries.
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Poland to build its own anti-missile shield

According to Polskie Radio (Polish Radio) the Polish anti-missile shield could be ready in four years' time. The president of the state owned arms manufacturer, Bumar, says that the company already has one-third of the elements needed for its construction ready. According to initial estimates, the system could cost up to five billion dollars.

The project has already met with the interest of the defence ministry, says its spokesman, Robert Rochowicz.

Polish community in US gives vent to concerns

Polish representatives in the US are calling on President Obama to improve relations between Warsaw and Washington following the cancellation of the anti-missile shield.
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'They Do Need To Be Remembered'

Retired British General Says 'Enormous' World War II Debt Owed To Poland.

The first official memorial for the half-million Poles who fought under British command in World War II is being unveiled in England on September 19.
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Sikorski to hold talks in Washington

Following President Obama’s decision to cancel the anti-missile shield in Poland, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is to pay a visit to Washington.
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The White House flunks research again

Did no one at the White House think to look at a calendar to check to see whether their betrayal of Poland and the staunch support it gave the missile defense system just to suck up to Russia might have been better delivered on another day — in fact, any other day?...Now Poles have another reason to mark September 17th.
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Russia and Germany welcome US missile move

Russia and Germany have welcomed a US decision not to build missile shield bases in Eastern Europe, but the move has caused bitterness in Poland and the Czech Republic.
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US’s “clumsy” timing for anti-missile announcement

Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski said, Thursday, that the decision to announce the cancellation of the anti-missile shield in Poland on the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Poland, 70 years ago, was “clumsy”.
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Polish PM wouldn't take U.S. calls

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk confirmed today that he declined last night to take a call from the U.S. informing him of the decision to scrap planned missile-defense bases in his country.
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Happy 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion

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September 17: Obama kills missile defense for Poland on 70th anniversary of Soviet invasion...
NO SHIELD FOR EUROPE...
May embolden Russia hawks...
'Iran Rocket Threat Downgraded'...
PAPER: 'Shameful' surrender...
NATO chief: 'Positive step'...

Barack Obama surrenders to Russia on Missile Defence

This is bad news for all who care about the US commitment to the transatlantic alliance and the defence of Europe as well as the United States. It represents the appalling appeasement of Russian aggression and a willingness to sacrifice American allies on the altar of political expediency.
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Ukraine diplomats take risk on EU application

Two senior Ukrainian diplomats have come out on the record as saying that the country should submit a formal application for EU membership in early 2010.
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President to make ‘sharp’ Soviet 1939 invasion speech

President Lech Kaczynski will make a speech to commemorate the Soviet invasion of Poland 70 years ago today – many wonder whether it will be diplomatically ‘offensive’.
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Poland waiting for Obama’s statement on missile shield

Poland’s foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, has said that his government would be making a full statement on the reported cancellation of the anti-missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic after a statement by President Obama later this afternoon.
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Sources: Admin Officials Head to Poland, Czech Rep. to Kill Missile Defense

According to reliable sources, Obama administration officials are on their way to Poland and the Czech Republic to deliver very bad news. The administration intends to cancel completely the missile defense sites that had been promised to these governments by the previous administration.
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Pole attempts to breathe new life into EU legislature

The new president of the European Parliament, Jerzy Buzek, has given himself the task of making his institution more internet friendly and livening up debates in the notoriously dull EU legislature.
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Polish September 1939 photos in America

Over ninety photos documenting Poland’s defensive war against Nazi German forces in September 1939 can be viewed on the website of the University Library in Milwaukee.
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This digital collection presents over 90 images documenting the beginning of World War II in Poland. The photographs were taken by the American photojournalist, Harrison Forman in late August and early September of 1939. The photographic collection is supplemented by Forman’s article “Filming the Blitzkrieg” and a selection of newspaper clippings from Forman’s 1938-1939 Scrapbook.
link to University of Wisconsin

Record number of visitors to Auschwitz

The number of visitors to the former Nazi German concentration camp of Auschwitz this year has topped the one million mark.
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Poland cheers European Volleyball Champions

A few thousands fans, and words of thanks from President Kaczynski, awaited Poland’s European Championship winning volleyball team as they returned, Monday, to a heroes welcome.
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Diplomatic scandal in Berlin?

The spokesman of the government, Paweł Graś, confirmed that representatives of Poland have not received an official intivation to the November anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall although the leaders of France, Russia, the US and Great Britain have already been invited.
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Visegrad Group meets on Baltic seaside

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has welcomed the presidents of Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia to Gdynia, on the Baltic Coast, for a two-day meeting of the Visegrad group to discuss the economic crisis, common energy Policy and continued expansion of the European Union and NATO.
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Obama reverses the way the world sees America, Poland least supportive of Obama

European support for US President Barack Obama's foreign policy has soared compared to the approval they gave to his predecessor, George W. Bush. Central and Eastern Europeans are less enthusiastic. The country that least changed its opinion about the US leadership was Poland. Polish nationals gave 55 percent support Obama, compared to 45 percent who supported Bush.
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Kaczynski asked Tusk to cancel Putin visit

So exasperated was President Kaczynski (right) with Russian accusations that Poland was collaborating with Nazi Germany, that he asked PM Tusk to call off Vladimir Putin’s visit to Poland last week.
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EC extends shipyard sale deadline - again

The European Commission has for the third time agreed to grant Warsaw more time for the sale of the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards.
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Security plans underway for EU presidency

The Polish government has began laying out plans for escalated security measures in preparation for receiving international guests when the country will hold the European Union presidency in 2011.
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Russia: Poland wanted Jews sent to Madagascar

A new book backed by the Russian government says Poland’s interwar foreign minister was an alcoholic and that Poland wanted to send Jews to Madagascar.
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Russia ship mystery editor flees

A journalist has fled Russia after suggesting the Arctic Sea cargo ship that was apparently hijacked in July may have been carrying illegal weapons.
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Poland keen to shed anti-Russian image inside the EU

Positive chemistry between Russia and Poland at a World War II remembrance event on Tuesday (1 September) could open a new chapter of realpolitik in bilateral ties, with implications for Poland's place in the EU.
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Czechs praise Kaczynski’s apology for 1938 annexation

Jan Sechter, the Czech Ambassador in Warsaw, has praised remarks by President Kaczynski, describing Poland’s part in the annexing of Sudetenland just before WW II as “a sin”.
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Russia and Poland trade insults on 70th anniversary of World War Two

The dignity of ceremonies to mark the 70th anniversary of the outbreak of the Second World War in Poland is being marred by furious spats between Russia and Eastern European states over their respective wartime roles.
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Poles give history lesson in UK

Small brochures are being distributed by Poles in the UK, informing Brits of Poland’s role during WW II.
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Russia's Putin dodges WWII criticism in Poland

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin rebuffed criticism on Tuesday of Moscow's role just before World War Two during ceremonies marking the 70th anniversary of Nazi Germany's invasion of Poland.
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Leaders mark 70th anniversary of World War II

At least 20 world leaders gathered Tuesday in Poland to commemorate the start of World War II 70 years ago -- a conflict in which 6 million Poles died.
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