Tag: Poland

Hundreds of flights were cancelled or delayed in Poland on Wednesday due to heavy fog and the closure of the country’s biggest airport in...

Anna Grodzka made history in Poland as the country's first transsexual member of parliament after a new anti-clerical party stormed to third place in...

Centre-right leader Donald Tusk has become the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term...

The Ambassador of Poland in Pakistan, Dr Andrzej Ananiez, has urged Pakistani businessmen to invest in new technologies to more efficiently exploit country’s resource...

Federal Minister for Petroleum and Natural Resources Dr. Asim Hussain, has appreciated the cooperation extended by Polish Government in the Oil and Gas Sector. He...

Poland's president said on Monday he planned to call a parliamentary election for Oct. 9, with opinion polls showing the ruling centre-right Civic Platform...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk promised “energetic engagement” as he took over the rotating presidency of the European Union on Friday and said the...

Euro 2012 co-hosts Poland failed to inspire yet again on Thursday, losing 1-0 to France in a friendly that underlined their defensive woes. Defender Tomasz...

WARSAW - With their nation's football hooligans spotlighted after a string of high-profile incidents, Polish authorities on Tuesday launched a new legal crackdown aimed at stemming trouble at Euro 2012.
"This sporting event cannot be dominated by agression, by hooligans and thugs," Justice Minister Krzysztof Kwiatkowski told reporters as he presented a raft of measures to be in place in time for the European championships. A key plank is fast-track handling of troublemakers, with

WARSAW: Poland on Friday hailed the Russian parliament's declaration blaming Joseph Stalin for a World War II massacre, a week before Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev makes an official visit.
"This is a good step, and an important sign," Poland's speaker of parliament Grzegorz Schetyna told reporters, noting that the acknowledgement that the Soviet dictator personally ordered the Katyn massacre of Polish officers came just over a week before Medvedev visits.
"President

WARSAW: Poland and Russia signed a new natural gas deal on Friday, after the EU rejected a previous one, that increases Russian deliveries to Poland's gas company by some 2.5 billion cubic metres to 10 bcm a year until 2022.
Poland would be short of some 2.5 bcm of gas annually without the deal, which was clinched after more than a year of talks and must still be approved by the European Commission.
The European Union executive had forced Warsaw to renegotiate after saying