Gdansk, Poland News

WARSAW, Poland - The European Union's competition commissioner voiced approval Friday of plans to restructure Poland's historic Gdansk shipyard and will recommend that Warsaw not be forced to reclaim past government subsidies, a news agency reported.

EU Commissioner for Competition Neelie Kroes is in Poland on a two-day visit to see for herself the state of affairs at the Gdansk, Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards.

Poland real estate has fared better than neighboring countries partly due to a relatively flat economy in 2009 and government policy that restrained borrowing earlier in the decade.

Anti-communist icon Lech Walesa is backing Roman Catholic groups in their protest against a Madonna concert in Poland, the daily Dziennik reported Tuesday.

Doug Saunders London - Globe and Mail Update Last updated on Monday, Jul. 06, 2009 07:43PM EDT T o look across Europe today is to see an ocean of red ink and hastily spilled bailout funds, dotted with shuttered factories, abandoned construction sites, long jobless lines and toppled banks.

There's a great but now mostly wrong anecdote in Hannah Arendt's Truth and Politics : During the twenties, so a story goes, Clemenceau, shortly before his death, found himself engaged in a friendly talk with a representative of the Weimar Republic on the question of guilt for the outbreak of the First World War.

Strona A / Side A 1. Krzysztof Penderecki - Capriccio per tuba/ Scherzo a la Polacca 4'40" 2. Marian Borkowski - Vox per uno strumento ad ottone 5'40" 3. Andrzei Krzanowski- Sonata na tube solo /Sonata for Solo Tuba 14'05" Strona B / Side B 1. Andrzej Dobrowolski - Muzyka na tube solo / Music for Solo Tuba 12'05" 2. Witold Szalonek- Piernikiana per ...

Ohbijou Toronto chamber-pop ensemble Ohbijou melted legions of hearts with the winsome sounds of 2006's Swift Feet For Troubling Times.

From : Mihran Keheyian Date : Fri, 26 Jun 2009 23:34:24 PDT Nabucco, an American piece for a European orchestra 19:3724/06/2009 MOSCOW.

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin 's attendance at an observance of the start of World War II in Poland would hold symbolism for Poles, Polish officials say.

The European Union and Turkey plan to sign an intergovernmental agreement on the Nabucco natural gas pipeline project on June 25 in Ankara.

Main politician who served as president of Poland . Kaczynski and his identical twin , Jaroslaw , were sons of Rajmund Kaczynski, a soldier who fought the German occupation of Poland, and his wife, Jadwiga, who taught Polish linguistics and served in a literary research institute.

Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi addresses supporters at a demonstration in Tehran on Thursday June, 18, 2009.

Jack DuVall is the co-author of A Force More Powerful: A Century of Nonviolent Conflict.

As the chaos and unrest escalates in Iran, Republicans have predictably exhumed Ronald Reagan to club President Obama.

A host of foreign political leaders descended on Poland to join the country's top officials in high-profile celebrations marking 20 years since the historic June 4, 1989 parliamentary elections that heralded the collapse of communism here.

The Baltic beaches have a distinctly Mediterranean feel - but at budget prices. Ruby Warrington visits Sopot Ruby Warrington Sopot is one of the cities of the Tri-City area - or Polish Riviera - and flooded with tourists from all over Poland and Germany during the summer months.

Kosovo The Russian defense ministry last week touched off an uproar with Moscow's most defiant neighbor, Poland.

Former Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa was once more in the spotlight this month, the target of praise by leaders across Europe as Poland celebrated the 20th anniversary of toppling the communist regime.

Twenty years ago today, Lech Walesa led the Solidarity movement in Polanda s first elections after communism.