Travelblog (Free subscription) | 10/10/2008
I am staying with Servas friends Ewa and Bogumil in Gdynia. This morning Bogumil dropped Ewa and I off at Sepot a Victorian beach town so that we could walk along the beach back to Gdynia. I think we walked over 10 kms. It is really warm here plus sixteen in the afternoons. The beaches were relatively empty. Sepot reminded me of Brighton much more toned down. The pier was empty and ca...
Groupe socialiste (Free subscription) | yesterday
The current Polish government has put in place a restructuring and modernisation plan — but fears are growing that the European Commission is set to reject it. Socialist MEPs today blamed two previous governments for failing to meet Commission requirements. The MEPs today called on the Commission to make a full assessment of the latest rescue plan for shipyards at Szczecin, Gdansk and Gdynia....
LSI Online News (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Europe - Three recent European shows have featured a range of different Yamaha consoles at the monitor position.Held on a naval aerodrome on Gdynia, Poland, the Heineken Open'er ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... (3.2 billion dollars) in government aid, which would likely bankrupt the facilities in Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin. Grad stopped short of confirming the media reports, but accused Brussels of failing to show good will in solving the dispute. "We cannot call the matter closed," he told a Warsaw news conference Wednesday. He pressed Brussels to offer a detailed response by Friday to a shipyard...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/01/2008
... euros (3.2 billion dollars) in state aid. That would likely bankrupt the facilities in Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin, and could mean unemployment for up to 60,000 people. The European Commission - the EU's executive arm - had given Poland until September 12 to come up with plans to restructure and privatize the yards, extending a previous deadline that Warsaw failed to meet.
Variety.com (Free subscription) | 09/21/2008
Film News: 'Little' causes outcry at Polish film festival -- The 33rd Polish Film Festival in Gdynia — the Polish film industry’s main showcase for current production — ended Saturday with Waldemar Krzystek’s "Little Moscow" taking the main prize, leading to an outcry among those who thought other pics were more worthy.
lloydslist.com (Free subscription) | 09/19/2008
ISD Polska has released details of the restructuring plan for both Gdansk and Gdynia that it handed to the European Commission earlier this month.
Boston Globe (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... have that sword above your head and not know what the future may bring."Some 200 workers from the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards held a noisy but peaceful demonstration outside the European Commission's headquarters to demand that EU regulators keep the yards afloat.The Polish government has presented a long-term business plan to the EU outlining its concept for restructuring the shipyards...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/16/2008
... on whether or not the commission would approve the rescue plan for the shipyards of Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin put forward by the Polish government, saying only that she would be "objective". Solidarity, founded in 1980 in three Baltic shipyards in then-Communist Poland, played a key role in the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe. But the shipyards faced immense problems...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
... euros (3.2 billion dollars) in state aid - a sum that would likely bankrupt facilities in Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin, and could mean unemployment for up to 60,000 people. Grad met with investors on Thursday to discuss the plans, Polish Radio reported. The Ukrainian Industrial Union of Donbass - which already owns the Gdansk shipyard - wants to buy the Gdynia shipyard and merge the...
Copenhagen City (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Rosemarie Davis, 72, from Fairfield, California, is sailing in the Baltic on Princess Cruises’ 3,110-passenger Crown Princess. The 10-night cruise, departing from Copenhagen, visits Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Gdansk (from Gdynia) and Oslo, and ...
Helsinki City (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Rosemarie Davis, 72, from Fairfield, California, is sailing in the Baltic on Princess Cruises’ 3,110-passenger Crown Princess. The 10-night cruise, departing from Copenhagen, visits Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Gdansk (from Gdynia) and Oslo, and ...
Oslo City (Free subscription) | 09/10/2008
Rosemarie Davis, 72, from Fairfield, California, is sailing in the Baltic on Princess Cruises’ 3,110-passenger Crown Princess. The 10-night cruise, departing from Copenhagen, visits Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, Gdansk (from Gdynia) and Oslo, and ...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/05/2008
Poland is confident it will be able to present acceptable restructuring plans for three ailing shipyards in time to meet the European Commission's September 12 deadline.All three yards - Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin - have to present acceptable restructuring plans to the Commission or be forced to repay public aid they have received since Poland joined the EU in 2004.
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 09/04/2008
... Gdansk shipyard, cradle of the Solidarity labour union, and is interested in buying the nearby Gdynia shipyard.
