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A Spanish-Warsaw team has won a competition for best design of an enlarged passenger terminal at Balice International Airport.

Two new destinations, Krakow - Edinburgh and Krakow - Bournemouth, will be launched on October 29, EasyJet airlines announced last week. Starting October 29, regular flights to Edinburgh will be scheduled four times a week.

After the European Parliament (EP) established a broader definition for "vodka" products in the EU, Polish vodka producers agreed that it was necessary to promote Polish alcohol abroad, informed Rzeczpospolita newspaper.

Tesco, the world's seventh-largest retailer, is creating Polish-food sections in its British stores ? and two Polish companies are the first to cash in on the trend.

Are the crowd problems at Balice finally over? A new terminal equipped with 15 new check-ins and 5 new security-control points should be opened in two weeks, airport authorities announced. The construction of the terminal officially ended on Monday.

According to Krakow's daily Dziennik Polski, foreign capital has invested almost $6.9 bln in the Malopolska Region from 1989 to 2005. An estimated 90,000 workplaces have been created as a result.

Brand-name clothing is taking more of the Polish market as Poles' income rises, the Dziennik newspaper reported.

The Malopolska Region, which includes Krakow, will receive half a billion euro from the EU over the next seven years for education, social programs and business development, the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper has reported.

The June 30 deadline for the privatization of the Gdansk and Szczecin shipyards will not be met, according to Vice Minister of the Treasury Slawomir Urbaniak.

The privatization of Polish Steelworks (PHS), the largest steel producer in Poland, was discussed recently by the Polish Parliament, Dziennik Polski reported.