Politics

Poland has recently taken centre stage in the vaunted theatre of geo-politics, as it is the chosen ?third site? for the Bush Administration?s anti-ballistic missile defence shield...

The leaders of the 27 members of EU have agreed on the text of the Reform Treaty.

On October 10 in Vilnius, Lithuania, the presidents of five Central and Eastern European nations signed an agreement to build an oil pipeline from Brody in northwestern Ukraine to Plock in central Poland.

Greenpeace sent a questionnaire to the 13 political parties in Poland asking what they would do to save the environment.

Voters in Poland will have a unique opportunity to vote for an openly gay candidate in upcoming elections on October 21, after Szymon Niemiec, the founder of Gay Pride in Poland, was officially placed on the list of two minor Polish political parties, the Union of the Left and the Polish Labor Party.

Two key announcements that involve Poland's relationship with Russia came out of the 17th annual Central and Eastern European Economic Forum in Krynica last week.

Germany is seeking to isolate Poland within the EU, while paying lip service to bilateral cooperation, a senior Polish diplomat said in a newspaper early this week.

Poland is going to allow non-violent offenders to serve their time on weekends to alleviate jail overcrowding and to keep families together, the Polish Press Agency (PAP) has reported.

The current shortage in labor means private companies are looking to the prisons for willing workers. Dziennik Polski has reported there are over 6,000 convicted felons employed outside the prison walls in Poland today.

Polish emigration to Germany, The Netherlands and the UK for better-paying jobs has led to shortages of workers in many sectors of the Polish economy.