Tag: Poland

Poland sees its energy security seriously threatened by a recent request by Russia's natural gas giant Gazprom to re-negotiate its long-term gas delivery contract with Warsaw.

The new minority government of Poland appears to be caught between a rock and a hard place.

Congratulations mixed with concern is being expressed as Lech Kaczynski wins Poland's presidential elections.

Poland's president has nominated 45-year-old economist Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz of the conservative Law and Justice Party to the post of prime minister.

Family ties loom just as large as politics in the process of forming a new Polish government, writes Wojciech Kosc in Transitions Online.

In a surprise development, former physicist Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has been nominated as Poland's next prime minister.

Poland's Law and Justice Party is set to rule the country in a centre-right coalition as voters show distrust with low turnout. Left Alliance suffers crushing defeat.

Germany and Russia have signed an agreement to build a gas pipeline directly linking them under the Baltic Sea. Poland would lose transit fees, and Warsaw also fears that it would be left at the mercy of Moscow.

In this working paper published by the Center for Social and Economic Research (CASE), the authors (Iurie Gotisan, Karina Kostrzewa and Eugen Osmochescu) present Poland's achievements as a successful way towards full EU membership and attempt to assess the competitive and institutional capacities of Moldova in the context of EU membership requirements.

The governments of Poland and the Ukraine have signed an agreement on legalising most of the Ukrainian seasonal workers that migrate into Poland every year.

Following rounds of internal debates, Poland has decided to indefinitely delay, albeit not to cancel, its planned referendum on the EU Constitution. 

Polish disappointment at the French and Dutch rejection to the European Constitution is mixed with satisfaction – and a determination to press ahead with a referendum, says Wojciech Kosc in Transitions Online.

A third of Poland’s population officially lives on less than $25 a week, a potentially explosive fact habitually defused by apathy, writes Wojciech Kosc in Transitions Online.

Poland's prolonged political stalemate is bound to continue after the president rejected the prime minister's resignation, fearing a power vacuum.

Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq by the end of 2005, the government decided on 12 April.

Political and opinion leaders are commenting on Pope John Paul II's political legacy, highlighting his role in the demise of Communism and his strong, sometimes controversial, leadership on moral issues.

Prime Minister Marek Belka adopts the opposition's tactics and calls for early elections, says Wojciech Kosc in Transitions Online. 

Poland's foreign minister believes that his country has yet to gain due recognition among the EU's big member states.

Poland and Germany have settled their dispute over mutual claims for World War Two compensation by ruling out any compensation from citizens of either country.