Warsaw denies asking for US to defend Poland
Global Security (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
Warsaw denied Russian media reports that Polish FM Sikorski asked Washington to deploy US troops to protect Poland from potential attacks from Russia.
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Warsaw denies asking for U.S. troops to defend Poland
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Warsaw denied on Friday Russian media reports that Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski asked Washington to deploy U.S. troops to protect Poland from potential attacks from Russia.
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international bioterrorism tabletop exercise
subrealism (Free subscription) | yesterday
Interpol | In September 2009, senior law enforcement officials, health care professionals and experts from international organizations joined their forces to confront a chilling crisis – the plague had just been unleashed on their countries by unknown evildoers. A fictional scenario with a serious aim Fortunately, this terrifying situation was a scenario under control, and the civilian authorities...
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Poland's euro entry plan to be ready next year
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Warsaw - Poland will have a national plan ready next year to adopt the euro currency, Deputy Finance Minister Ludwik Kotecki said Thursday. Kotecki said Poland should adopt the euro as quickly as possible, adding that the national plan would be pub...
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France to help Poland develop nuclear energy - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Paris - France and Poland have decided to cooperate in the development of nuclear power stations in the Eastern European country, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday in Paris. Warsaw and Paris will hol...
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France to help Poland develop nuclear energy
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Paris - France and Poland have decided to cooperate in the development of nuclear power stations in the Eastern European country, French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Thursday in Paris. Warsaw and Paris will hol...
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1989: how it ended, Neal Ascherson
Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
What amazes me now is how long it took us - we in the west - to see what was happening. For journalists, it was a case of a great story blotting out a world-changing one. The communist regimes of Europe were transforming themselves, quarrelling openly. In the first part of that year , the East Germans snarled at the Poles, the Hungarians hinted that they would license free political parties, the Czechoslovak...
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Poland proposes reducing pension payments - Summary
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Warsaw - Changes in Poland's retirement system, including lowered payments to private pension funds, could take effect in July 2010, Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski said Wednesday. Poland would see a reduction in its deficit by lowering payments to ...
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New Polish football coach: 'It couldn't be worse'
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Warsaw - Poland's new football coach Franciszek Smuda said Wednesday things couldn't be worse in the country's sport but that he was capable of picking up the national team after a disastrous qualifying campaign for the 2010 World Cup in South Afri...
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MISSILE DAY ALERT: Poles angered by media report: Zapad 2009 war game offensive in nature, simulated nuclear attack against Poland, amphibious landing
Once Upon a Time in the West (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Russia has laid bare its real intentions with respect to Poland. Every Pole must get off the fence and be counted as a patriot or a traitor. -- “Ted,” Polish patriot, speaking to Polskie Radio in response to recent Russian-Belarusian war game - Estonian President Urges NATO to Counter Kremlin Saber Rattling by Holding "Large-Scale" Military Drill in Baltics, Latvia to Host War...
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Germany's new foreign minister makes first foreign trip - to Poland
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Warsaw - Germany's new Foreign Minister, Guido Westerwelle, embarked on his first official visit abroad since taking office Saturday - to neighbouring Poland. Westerwelle, leader of the minority Free Democrats governing- coalition partner in Berlin, ...
- Poland gets special attention from top German diplomat - Deutsche Welle: DW-WORLD.DE
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Accidental shots fired on US ship in Polish port
Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
WARSAW, Poland -- A U.S. official says an American sailor fired three accidental shots from a machine gun aboard a Navy ship moored in a Polish port. No one was injured.
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Poland wants ban on slot machines amid lobbying scandal
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Warsaw - Poland's ruling Civic Platform party is working on a draft bill that will ban slot machines outside casinos and raise taxes on the gambling industry, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. We propose de-legalizing a considerable part of t...
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Poland's Law and Justice to send Lisbon Treaty to tribunal
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Warsaw - Poland's conservative Law and Justice party will ask the Constitutional Tribunal to verify that the Lisbon Treaty cannot override the country's constitution, the daily Nasz Dziennik reported Tuesday. The proposal will ask the tribunal to con...
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Poland to boost its Afghan mission by 600 soldiers: report
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/23/2009
Warsaw - Poland is to send an additional 600 soldiers to Afghanistan next year to strengthen there its force of 2,000, the daily Wyborcza reported Friday - citing an high-ranking army source. But Poland would be unable to send any more than a total o...