Poland

Polish women give birth in Germany

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Polish women living near the German border are flocking to German hospitals to give birth because the deliveries don't cost them anything, they can choose the birth method, they apparently think they get better care there, and the German facilities are more modern.

Immigration center opens in Przemysl

Saturday, November 24, 2007

A detention center for illegal immigrants has opened in Przemysl in southeastern Poland to deal with the surge in illegal aliens that Poland has experienced since joining the EU.

Poland looks forward to EU farm support review

Saturday, November 24, 2007

Major beneficiaries of their country joining the EU, Polish farmers are eagerly awaiting the launch this week of a review of the Common Agriculture Policy for changes allowing them to tap growing global demand and prices.

Poland joins Schengen Zone in December

Saturday, November 24, 2007

The European Parliament has approved, by a large majority, a resolution to expand the Schengen Zone to nine new countries, including Poland.

Sex scandal connected with former minister Andrzej Lepper continues

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Last week Andrzej Lepper, the head of the agrarian and populist Self Defense Party and a former deputy prime minister, was questioned for more than two hours by prosecutors in Lodz. Lepper has been charged with soliciting sex from two women in 2001 and 2002.

Former president Lech Walesa does not need heart transplant

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Lech Walesa will not have to undergo a heart transplant, at least not this year.

More money for Rydzyk

Thursday, November 15, 2007

The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management is giving the controversial priest Tadeusz Rydzyk another 15 mln zloty for a geothermal-energy project for the university he founded.

27th Polish casualty in Iraq buried in Lublin

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Sergeant Andrzej Filipek, the most recent Polish casualty of the war in Iraq, has been buried in his hometown of Lublin.

Coca-Cola plays Santa Claus to needy Polish children at Christmas

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Coca-Cola in collaboration with the Polish Humanitarian Organzation (PHO) has launched a Christmas campaign to assist impoverished children in Poland.

Polish farmers break down doors to get EU funds

Thursday, November 15, 2007

Farmers from all over Poland crowded outside the Agency for Restructuring and Modernization of Agriculture local offices for over 2 days last week to get a share of EU subsidies totaling 360 mln euro.