Euractive (Free subscription) | yesterday
Eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus has confirmed that he will not sign his country's Lisbon Treaty ratification unless Ireland ratifies it first. The statement was made following a meeting with his Polish colleague and fellow Treaty critic Lech Kaczynski on 24 July.
Thaindian News (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
DPA Prague, July 25 (DPA) The future of the Lisbon Treaty lies in the hands of Ireland, whose voters rejected the pact in a June referendum, the Czech and Polish presidents said Thursday. The dinner meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus at the Lany Chateau outside Prague has not changed [...]
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Prague - The future of the Lisbon Treaty lies in the hands of Ireland, whose voters rejected the pact in a June referendum, the Czech and Polish presidents said Thursday. The dinner meeting between Polish President Lech Kaczynski and his Czech counte...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Prague - Polish and Czech leaders planned Friday to discuss the future of the European Union's reform treaty, which the Czech president declared dead after Irish voters rejected it. Polish President Lech Kaczynski's visit to Prague has led to specula...
BBC News (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
A huge crowd attends the Warsaw funeral of one of Poland's foremost anti-communists, Bronislaw Geremek.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
WARSAW, Poland -- Solidarity activist Bronislaw Geremek was honored by hundreds at a funeral Mass in Warsaw's historic old town Monday, with former President Lech Walesa calling him "the greatest of all Poles."
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/21/2008
Warsaw - Polish politicians and international envoys bid farewell on Monday to former foreign minister Bronislaw Geremek, a Holocaust survivor and leading dissident under communism who died last week in a car accident at age 76. Former Solidarity lea...
EU Referendum (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
The news yesterday that President Lech Kaczynski of Poland had effectively folded on the constitutional Lisbon treaty came as absolutely no surprise. Apart from the general tendency of Polish politicians to make a great deal of noise and then give in at the first opportunity, this had been flagged up earlier this month when Angela Merkel had confidently predicted that ratification was just "a question...
European Tribune (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
The Polish President is allegedly considering a little light blackmail as his price for signing...
Financial Time (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
Bronislaw Geremek, a pipe-smoking history professor and key figure in the overthrow of communism in Poland and in post-communist democratic politics, has died aged 76
The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
President Lech Kaczynski of Poland has said his country will not block the adoption of the new European reform treaty, after talks in Paris with his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
Warsaw - Poland's foreign minister Monday countered reports that Warsaw might sign a European Union reform treaty only if the EU agrees to shield ailing Polish shipyards, a news agency said. We didn't tie and we are not planning to tie the two issue...
Baltic Times (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
VILNIUS- Events begin today to commemorate the 75-year anniversary since Steponas Darius and Stasys Girenas' flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Lithuanian President Valdas Adamkus arrived in Poland on Sunday to participate in the ceremony of commemoration of the anniversary together with his
Scotsman.com (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
THEY championed the cause of freedom in the Communist bloc and helped bring an end to the Cold War. But now Poland's shipyards, the birthplace of Lech Walesa's Solida
Erkan's field diary (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
The CER guide to the French Presidency France's EU Presidency "will have to focus on resolving the legal and institutional mess created by the Irish 'no' to the EU's Lisbon Treaty," says Katinka Barysch of the Centre for European Reform....
