Poland is turning away from the modern world.
Since 1989 Poland has been in the race to catch up with the modern world. And some parts of Poland have caught up with the modern world. But the elections of the year 2005 have brought to Poland a government that is rejecting the results of the years of efforts and that is bent on punishing those who brought Poland into the modern world.
The Polish government represents a majority of the voting populace in Poland. It is not an aberration. The leaders of the Polish government coalition, namely Jaroslaw Kaczynski, Andrzej Lepper, and Roman Giertych, are the face of Poland. They are in positions of power because the people of Poland put them there. And if the election poll results can be relied on to any great degree, should the Polish people have to choose again, they will return at least in Jaroslaw Kaczynski and Andrzej Lepper to the majority positions in the Polish Sejm.
These people do not like what they see in the West. They do not like what Western ideas have done to Poland. They are more than willing to take the money from the European Union, but they're not willing to accept the life styles followed by many people in the European Union.
The Polish government is looking to purify Poland and to create a moral revolution. It is looking to its past and its Catholic heritage to create a Polish identity that is at odds with the modern world and the young people of Poland.
Many of the Polish people agree with this. But many of the young do not. The young see no opportunity in Poland and leave Poland to work in the European Union. Currently, it seems that many of them do not want to come back. So those who would help change Poland and bring it into the modern world are leaving Poland to join the the modern world rather than to fight a cumbersome system.
And the people who are staying are listening to the government reinforce their ideas about looking to a glorious past based on Catholicism and rejecting the West and the modern world.
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Italy opens up to new EU - Italy has lifted curbs on the free movement of workers from new EU members in eastern Europe. Italian leader Romano Prodi, who as former European commission president oversaw EU enlargement in 2004, decided last Friday to open up Italy’s labour market to eastern workers. Italy is the eighth old EU15 member state to loosen restrictions to the entrance of workers from new EU countries, mainly in central and eastern Europe. “From now on, we can be Italian in Poland and Polish in Italy, being at the same time European citizens with the same rights,” Italian internal minister Giuliano Amato said. The European commission highlighted potential positive economic outcomes for Italy’s economy.
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After Reaching Outward, Poland Looks Back to Its Roots - On the very heels of what could certainly be deemed a historic achievement, the defeat of Communist dictatorship and the merging of Eastern and Western Europe into a 25-member club of peaceful, secure and solidly democratic countries, Europe is in a strange and sour mood.
In the West, ever since the rejection by France and the Netherlands of a proposed constitution that was supposed to put enlarged Europe into its next phase of integration, there seems to be no energy and no political will directed toward what used enthusiastically to be called the European project.
Instead, the European Union is experiencing what the Center for European Reform in London has called an unprecedented malaise, signaled by a retreat into a narrow defense of national interests.
Meanwhile, members of the former Eastern bloc, though objectively in better shape economically and politically than at any other time in their histories, appear to feel lost, bereft of the purpose that inspired them when their only goal was to topple the Communists and, with that accomplished, to join the Western clubs open only to fully democratic countries.
The paradox is that neither the old members of the Union nor the new ones seem to be celebrating what really is a historic achievement, uniting a continent that for centuries was rent by war. Instead, in several countries — Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia in particular — the politics of lofty ideals and general high-mindedness has been replaced by a politics of bickering, accusations of corruption and ever changing coalitions
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/25/world/europe/25poland.html?
Police search site of Polish Football Association. - Police search the site of Polish Football Association. The association has been accused of trading tickets to football matches during the World Cup in Germany at ten times their face value.
http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=39577
Law and Justice prepares financial vetting -
http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=39579
PM warns his coalition partners - Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned his coalition partners that if they choose to vote against the government on important issues, it will be the end of their coalition and reason for early elections.
http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=39581
Uniforms in Polish schools? - Deputy prime minister and education minister Roman Giertych informed that his department intends to introduce school uniforms in Polish schools.
http://www.radio.com.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=39601
New State Oil Industry Programme - Plans include putting a stop to the privatisation and consolidation of the sector, as well as securing Poland's energy independence by finding new oil sources.
http://www.pnb.pl Polish News Bulletin
Nationalizing Plans - The sole announcement of taking over private property by the state could make shareholders withdraw from such companies as PGNIG or Orlen. And this indeed will threaten state security. Adam Ambroziak, Confederation of Polish Employers (KPP) expert, on Law and Justice's (PiS) nationalisation plans.
http://www.pnb.pl Polish News Bulletin
Telecoms will lower their prices thanks to state regulator - TP telecom will lose while Tele2 will get most thanks to recent decision of the Electronic Communication Authorities UKE liberalizing the telecommunication market in Poland.
http://www.pulsbiznesu.pl/content.aspx?sid=6938&guid=3BE63690-1D26-48D4-B0F0-4288152BF7AD
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