Polish Communities Take To Photo Radar To Raise Money
Soon there will be more photo radars in Poland than police as Polish communities install new units in low speed limit areas. Taking advantage of the fact that Polish drivers are notorious for taking speed limits for suggestions rather than requirements, the communities are raking in extra money.

Poland - EU Subsidized Polish Companies Sell For Lack Of Money
Warsaw, Poland - 16 June , 2009 Polish companies that were approved to receive EU subsidies are now looking for private investors. They no longer have the necessary capital to continue operations.

Polish Glass Companies Suffer Under Global Economic Crisis
Warsaw, Poland - June 15, 2009 Poland's high quality glass industry is experiencing bankruptcies among some of its most famous glass manufacturers as exports of high quality glass have withered during the global economic crisis.

Polish Real Estate Market Changes With Financial Markets
Warsaw, Poland - February 24, 2009 Both the weakening of the Polish zloty against the Euro and more restrictive bank lending policies are influencing the Polish real estate market. The net effect is a drop in sales that is rippling through Poland's economy.

Polish Weather - The Current Conditions And Forecast For Poland During Week Staring 4 January, 2009
Warsaw, Poland - 4 January, 2009 The projected Polish weather for the week can generally be described as cold, snowy, and when it is not snowing, gray. So if you are traveling to Poland, be prepared for cold weather.

Ebay Does Not Want Polish Shippers
Warsaw, Poland - 24 November, 2008 Ebay wants eBay.com to be for US customers and has made changes to discourage listing of Polish products shipped from Poland. The changes also apply to products from other countries and other foreign locations. The effect of the changes is that eBay.com is mainly for US members now.

Poland - It Takes 13 In Management To Run 20 Worker Polish Company
Warsaw, Poland - 10 June, 2008 A subsidiary of the Polish Post Office needs 9 board members and 4 managers to run a company of 20 workers that print about 2000 magazines per month.

Poland -- Construction Costs Shock Polish City's Metro Plans.
Warsaw, Poland - 9 June, 2008 When city officials opened the bids to build Warsaw, Poland's second metro line, what they saw was so high that some of them walked out of the meeting room. The officials were stunned by the results of escalating Polish building costs that have left Warsaw with a choice of either building bridges or a metro.

Poland - Airshow Long On Polish Food, Short On Airplanes
Warsaw, Poland - 8 June, 2008 The Saturday opening of the annual Goraszka, Poland airshow saw large crowds, enjoying a variety of Polish foods and keeping their children occupied on rides and at toy stands, occasionally provided an interesting arial display. Reversing the tradition, the number of attractive aircraft at the show was remarkably small. Unlike in earlier years, there were very few armed forces displays. There were more antique cars on the field than antique aircraft.

Poland's Walesa says that Polish President Lech Kaczynski should be removed from the government.
Warsaw, Poland - 6 June, 2008 The war of words between Poland's Lech Walesa and President Lech Kaczynski continues as Walesa responds to the President's accusation that Walesa was a communist agent by saying that Kaczynski should be removed from the Government.

Poland -- Alleged Lesbian Mother Loses Child Custody In Polish Court
Warsaw, Poland - 3 June, 2008 A court in Wroclaw Poland granted custody of a child to its grandmother after the grandmother described her daughter as a lesbian. The court acted without proof of the child's mother being a lesbian. The Court ruled that it was in the best interests of the child to stay with the grandmother.

Finland Looks into Discrimination Against Polish Workers
Warsaw, Poland - June 3, 2008 Finnish-Polish construction company MSB may face work discrimination charges in Finland for paying illegally low salaries to 88 Polish electricians in 2005 and 2006. Finnish prosecutors are now considering the charges, and if they decide to go ahead the case will go before a court in autumn. Four persons are suspected in the case, three of them Finnish and one Polish.

Polish pride, defiance, and heroism blamed for German World War II invasion of Poland.
Warsaw, Poland - 3 June, 2008 Poland's failure to negotiate over the transfer of Danzig (modern-day Gdansk) to Hitler's Germany was, according to American commentator Patrick Buchanan, the reason that German tanks rolled into Poland on September 1, 1939. He lays upon Poland, among other things, the responsibility for the millions of its own dead and the annihilation of the home Army in the Warsaw uprising of 1944. And this all happened because the Polish people were "a proud, defiant, heroic people and because Neville Chamberlain had insanely given an unsolicited war guarantee to Poland."

Polish Dissident's Killer Sentenced After 25 Years - Poland Surprised.
Warsaw, Poland - May 31, 2008 A Warsaw court on Tuesday sentenced a Polish communist-era policeman to four years in prison for the 1983 killing of a young dissident, overturning a history of four acquittals in the same case over the years. Ireneusz K., a former member of communist Poland's infamous ZOMO riot police units, was found guilty of the fatal beating of 19-year-old Grzegorz Przemyk, the son of dissident poet Barbara Sadowska and a promising talent in his own rights. Przemyk was beaten at the police station on ul. Jezuicka after being stopped celebrating passing his matura school-leaving exam near the Royal Castle. Przemyk's case became a symbol of resistance, and his funeral turned into a massive demonstration against the communist authorities.

Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom return to Poland in larger numbers
Warsaw, Poland - 17 April, 2008 Polish emigrants to the United Kingdom are returning to Poland at about twice the rate that they did last year. Emigration to the United Kingdom has not stopped, but more who have spent their time there are opting to come home to Poland.

Polish Weather: People Run For Bread As Snow Cuts Power in Szczecin, Poland
Warsaw, Poland - 9 April, 2008 Heavy snow in Szczecin, Poland caused power outages in and as far as 100 kilometers from the City. Polish people descended on bakeries and shops buying as many as five loaves of bread at a time.

Polish Bureaucrat Wants To Raise The Age For Sex.
Warsaw, Poland - 25 March, 2008 The Polish Spokesman for Children's Law has proposed raising the age for allowing sex in Poland and brought upon herself derision and laughter.

Poland Has A White Easter Week After A Warm Winter
Warsaw, Poland - 24, March 2008 In spite of predictions of global warming, snow continues to fall in Poland and is predicted to fall over the next few days.

Poland's Ex Prime Minister Says Polish Porn Watching Internet Users Easily Manipulated.
Warsaw, Poland - 12 March, 2008 Poland's former Prime Minister has created an Internet storm by describing Polish Internet users as an easily manipulated beer drinking pornographic movie watching group.

Is Poland's Climate Change Counter To World Climate Change?
Warsaw, Poland - 10 March, 2008 Warsaw, Poland - In spite of a drop in world temperature averages over the last year, Poland, and other countries in Northern Europe, experienced a warmer than normal winter with temperatures in some cases at record levels. Do these countries offer evidence of global warming or has their weather been an anomaly in a pattern that may be showing global cooling? How should the Polish Government proceed?

Poland's US Visa Problem Less Dramatic As Polish Workers Go To EU
Warsaw, Poland - 25 January, 2008 As hundreds of thousands of Polish workers have chosen to go to Europe for work, the lines of people outside the US Embassy in Warsaw, Poland waiting for the opportunity to apply for a visa to visit the United States have essentially disappeared. Where the Embassy halls were full and hundreds stood in lines just to get inside, there is emptiness.

Polish Commercial Real Estate Market Reveals State Of Poland's Economy
Warsaw, Poland - 17 June , 2009 Poland's commercial real estate market shows how the the Polish economy is changing in response to the global economic slowdown with residential and office building all but stopped and shopping center construction continuing.

Polish Economy Grinds On During Economic Crisis
Warsaw, Poland - 13 June, 2009 The Polish economy shows no signs of having major problems. Poland is an island in a depressed Europe. If there is a slowdown in Europe, it definitely is not generally visible in Poland. With some exceptions, people continue to buy and entertain themselves before there was a widespread recognition of a global financial crisis.

Polish Construction Companies Welcome Workers Back From Ireland.
Warsaw, Poland - 24 February, 2009 Polish construction companies report that people who left for Ireland to work there are coming back to Poland in droves. Then return has been a boon to companies that were struggling to find qualified help.

Polish D�j� vu - Abandoning Poland to the Russian sphere of influence
Warsaw, Poland - 25 November, 2008 Russia's threats to place missiles on Poland's borders seem to be having some effect on Western European powers. And it seems that there is less support for placing the missile defense system on Polish soil, the result of which would be an acknowledgment that Poland is within Russia's sphere of influence.

Poland - Strike Paralyses Polish Post Offices
Warsaw, Poland - 5 June, 2008 A strike by the Polish Solidarity trade union and several minor organizations ground Poland's state-owned postal service to a virtual halt in large sections of the country this week, despite the fact that the union can claim no more than a tenth of its employees as members. Led by a major sorting hub in L�dz, striking Polish workers have managed to slow the flow of mail to a trickle.

Cancel Polish missile defense system. Turn Poland back to Russia - American Senator
Warsaw, Poland - 5 June, 2008 The third ranking Democrat in the United States Senate has proposed to gain Russian cooperation on Iran by canceling the proposed Polish missile defense system and allowing Russia to restore hegemony over Poland plus the remainder of Eastern Europe. His proposal includes the dismantling of the antimissile site and economic incentives in the creation of a diplomatic partnership in the region in exchange for Russia joining the economic boycott of Iran

First Polish Politician Jailed in Poland's Infamous Sex Scandal
Warsaw, Poland - 31 May, 2008 A L�dz court sentenced the first of three Polish politicians accused in the sex-for-jobs scandal that helped bring down Poland's last coalition government, signalling there may be trouble ahead for two of the party's leaders who are also on trial.

Poland Gambles Missile Defense System On US Elections
Warsaw, Poland - 30 May, 2008 The offer to put missisles on Polish soil that Poland is getting from the Bush administration is not good enough. So the Polish government has decided to wait for a new administration with the hope that they will get a better deal. The decision is a gamble since there are mixed signals as to whether the US will even continue building missle defense systems

Polish Businesses Prepare For Postal Strike in Poland
Warsaw, Poland - 18 April, 2008 Poland's postal letter carriers have announced their intention to go on strike. The initial strike date was set for this coming Monday. But, so that they do not lose support of the Polish public, they will delay it until May 5 thereby allowing people to post their tax returns

US Approaches Czech On Missile Base Proposed For Poland - Polish Internet
The United States and the Czech Republic appear to be close to an agreement on the European Missile Defense system. But the talks with Poland have been so difficult that the United States is said to have approached the Czech Republic and asked to put the missiles there rather than on Polish soil.

As Polish Zloty get stronger, Poland's exporters get hurt
Warsaw, Poland - 12 April, 2008 Warsaw, Poland - 17 April, 2008 The Polish zloty has been dropping to new lows against the US dollar. And as the zloty drops exports from Poland's factories are dropping with it. Factories are closing and people are being laid off.

Business Poland: US Dollar Drops Again Against Polish Zloty
Warsaw, Poland - 12 April, 2008 The US dollar continued its slide against the US dollar on Friday and is now quoted by the National Bank of Poland at 216.00 Zloty per 100 USD.

Polish Missile Defense: The Bases In Poland And Not The Missiles Threaten Russia
Warsaw, Poland - 9 April, 2008 The ten interceptor missiles to be stationed in Poland as part of the European missile defense system were long ago acknowledged by the Russian military as not a threat to Russia's missile arsenal. It is what comes with the bases on Polish and Czech soils that concerns the Russians.

Poland Dismisses And Punishes People Responsible For Catastrophic Polish Military Air Crash
Warsaw, Poland - 9 April, 2008 Poland lost 16 senior military officers and a crew of 4 when an Polish military plane crashed on a second landing attempt on 23 January, 2008. As a result of the investigation into the matter, 5 people have been relieved of their positions. And another 20 are slated to be disciplined.

Polish Missile Base Gives US A Forward Base In Poland
26 March, 2008 Poland will give the Unites States a minimum of two things when it agrees to the Missile base on Polish soil. It gives the US a base from which it can challenge Russia and a leveraged increase in troops on the ground in Europe.

Polish Government Taxes Renewable Energy Companies Out Of Business
25 March, 2008 Poland's government is taxing into bankruptcy twenty four Polish companies that are using a new process that turns plastic bags into a liquid that can be refined just like oil. Only a last minute intervention by the Polish Deputy Prime Minister can save the companies and the technology.

Necessary Economic Development Gives Poland The Right To Pollute
Warsaw, Poland - 21, January 2008 - Destruction of the environment in Poland and its attendant pollution are acceptable to the European Union if economic development is considered necessary. The health of the Polish people is low priority as long as the economic and CO2 emissions objectives of the European Union are met.

Will Pro Business Polish Government Destroy Poland's Public Health System?
Warsaw, Poland - 3, January 2008 Poland, suffering from a shortage of Doctors and new work rules imposed by the European Union, is considering preventing doctors that work at Polish hospitals from working in private clinics. Will this drive more doctors to work in the West or to move to full time private work and leave the Polish Hospitals unable to provide services?

Is Poland's Health Service Paying Attention To Effective Bird Flu Prevention For The Polish People?
Warsaw, Poland - 2, January 2008 Poland's health care system is in a state of crisis with a critical shortage of doctors and new European Union rules limiting their hours of work. Is the Polish Government diverted from looking to future and providing effective bird flu and other disease prevention services while it tries to keep basic services on line? Will it be able to prevent bird flu, or any other disease from spreading or will it react after it might be too late.

Poland - Global Cooling Or Global Warming For The Polish People?
Warsaw, Poland - 20 December, 2007 While the Polish people have been being showered with the news that global warming will be a problem, record low temperatures across the world are killing people and crops. In spite of what the media and UN promote as a planetary emergency, when they look out their windows in the future they may see a very cold Poland.

Calm Returns To Poland As Polish Government Changes
Warsaw, Poland - 16 November, 2007 Shortly after the recent Polish elections a calm descended on Poland. Fighting and complaining politicians stopped dominating the news. The people are looking forward again. They are quietly waiting.

Polish Political Parties Unite Against Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski
Warsaw, Poland 15 November, 2007 Event's in the Polish Parliament yesterday highlighted how Poland's Jaroslaw Kaczynski has united all the political parties in the Parliament to work together against him. In a vote on a key Parliamentary committee that left him on the sidelines, parties of diverse backgrounds united to put him down.

Poland's Twins Against The Polish Media
Warsaw, Poland 12 November, 2007 Poland's President and his ex-Prime Minister brother have gone on the offensive against the Polish Press. After last week announcing that he would take on the role of protecting press freedom in Poland, ex-Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski has now announced, because as a member of the opposition he lacks the ability to limit the press, he will sue people of the media.