BONJOUR L'ESTONIE (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Estonia is set to become the next euro member as years of fiscal prudence help the former communist state recover faster than neighboring Latvia and Lithuania, a World Bank economist said. “It’s doing everything it can to keep the deficit within 3 percent of GDP this year,” Thomas Laursen, the World Bank’s country manager for Poland and the Baltics, said in an interview in Warsaw....
IntelliBriefs (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at the Strategic Operations Excercise Centre, 2008 Russia's largest ever post-Cold War military games near the border with Poland, simulating a nuclear attack against its smaller neighbor, has put Warsaw on edge and sent it looking for new security assurances, Anna Dunin writes for ISN Security Watch. By Anna Dunin for ISN Security Watch Joint Russian-Belarusian war...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/14/2009
Warsaw - A 37 year-old man who died recently of pneumonia was carrying the H1N1 virus, doctors announced Saturday in what was the country's first swine flu fatality. The man died after a week in the hospital, reported the Polish Press Agency PAP. ...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
Warsaw - A 37 year-old man suspected of carrying the H1N1 virus died in Gdansk on Friday in what was thought to be the country's first swine flu fatality, local media reported. The man died of pneumonia after a week in the hospital, reported the Poli...
Boston Herald (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
WARSAW, Poland - Heavily Catholic Poland has joined the Vatican in criticizing a European court ruling against the display of crucifixes in Italian schools. Polish President...
FreeThoughtManifesto (Free subscription) | 11/13/2009
By Eric Margolis Courtesy Of Lew Rockwell In 1975, physicist Andrei Sakharov and a group of fellow Soviet academicians warned the Kremlin leadership that unless the nation’s ruinous defense spending was slashed and funds refocused on modernizing the nation’s decrepit, obsolete industrial base and its wretched state agriculture, the Soviet Union would collapse by 1990. Their grim warning...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Warsaw - Parts of downtown Wroclaw were evacuated Thursday after workers found a 500-kilogramme World War II-era explosive behind the city's opera house, local media reported. The opera house, nearby homes and shopping centres of the southwestern Pol...
Eclecticity (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
Recognizing the wonderful U.S. visitors to this blog hailing from: Oakland , California San Jose , California Fresno , California Arvada , Colorado Irvine , California Concord , California San Francisco , California Cortland , New York Washington , District of Columbia Germantown , Maryland Auburn , Maine Newark ,...
"Reflections of an ethical business hack" (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
In a week’s time I’ll be in Bulgaria speaking at a conference on corporate responsibility. Then just over a week later in Budapest at a similar gig. It seems an appropriate time, exactly twenty years on from the fall of the Berlin Wall and the Soviet Union, to consider what role responsible business can play in what we now call Central and Eastern Europe. In the last couple of years I’ve...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Occupied, and suppressed, Poland's 20th century history was as bleak as its future now seems rosy. Why then have so many young Poles left never to return since 2004? Sitting with her daughter and grand-daughter in one of Warsaw's poshest coffee shops, Tereza Sawerska dwells on Poland's 20th century. In the 1940s as a child she trudged the country lanes with her father in search of a bit of bread,...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
Warsaw - Poland signed a deal Monday to sell surplus greenhouse gas emission rights to Spain in what is the first move for Warsaw of its kind. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said that the deal would give Warsaw funds for investments in lowering ca...
subrealism (Free subscription) | 11/07/2009
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...
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.
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.
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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