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The son of a carpenter and a nurse, both of whom were slave labourers during the Nazi German occupation of Poland, Tusk grew up as part of the Kashubian ethnic minority in the port city of GdaA sk , the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.
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Poland Shale Boom Falters as State Targets Higher Taxes: Energy
Poland's shale gas boom is threatened even before it gets started after some wells failed and the government sought to increase taxes on profits.
Poland's opposition PiS overtakes ruling PO in opinion poll
Poland's governing center-right Civic Platform party, led by Prime Minister Donald Tusk saw its voter support fall 2 pps to 23% in May, while the chief opposition conservative Law and Justice party gained 3 ppt to take lead with 26% support, the latest survey from the CBOS institute one of Poland's biggest polling organizations, shows.
Major government shake-up expected this summer
Prime Minister Donald Tusk is considering a "serious restructuring" of the government, Civic Platform MEP Jacek Protasiewicz told the Polish Press Agency .
Polish PM among candidates for European Commission head
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PM Tusk mulls significant government revamp - report
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Polish exports of meat for Jews, Muslims in limbo
Until January, slaughterhouses across Poland - a deeply Catholic nation - were the unlikely venues for the Islamic and Jewish slaughter of animals, which in both religions involves a swift cut to the throat of a conscious animal and death by bleeding.
The son of a carpenter and a nurse, both of whom were slave labourers during the Nazi German occupation of Poland, Tusk grew up as part of the Kashubian ethnic minority in the port city of GdaA sk , the birthplace of the Solidarity movement.
When Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced his decision to dismiss Miko3aj Budzanowski from his post as treasury minister, it came as no surprise.
Food quality checks to be similar in CzechRep, Poland
Czech and Polish food inspection authorities will start using similar methods in food quality checks, prime ministers of the two countries, Petr Necas and Donald Tusk, told journalists today.
After Prime Minister Donald Tusk's visit to Nigeria last month, Poland continues to step up efforts to increase business ties with Africa's fast-growing economies Poland's economic cooperation with Africa will be one of the main themes of the upcoming European Economic Congress scheduled to be held in the southern Polish city of Katowice on May ... (more)
Poland's shale gas hopes suffer blow
News that Talisman Energy Inc. is pulling out of exploration for shale gas in Poland is a blow to the country's hopes that its deposits of the hydrocarbon will soon cut its dependence on Russian supplies and support the weakening economy.
Over PLN 5bn bank credit guara...
Poland may exceed PLN 5 billion in bank credits issued to SMEs within the state program of credit guarantees 'de minimis', PM Donald Tusk said during a press conference on Tuesday.
Biernacki sworn in as justice minister
Marek Biernacki was officially sworn in as Poland's minister of justice on Monday at a ceremony at the president's chancellery.
Tusk, Sikorski among worldR...
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Poland eyes public finance deficit at 3.5pct of GDP in 2013
Poland assumes that its public finance sector deficit will decrease to 3.5% of GDP in 2013 in the updated convergence plan adopted by the government on Tuesday, Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski and PM Donald Tusk said at a press conference.
Kosovo Convicts Five for Kidney Harvesting, Polish Heads Roll Over Gazprom Memo
Plus, Europe ups the pressure for a new constitution in Hungary and the Turkmen president leads, and falls, from the front.
UPDATE 1-Polish gas group PGNiG sacks CEO over Gazprom deal
Polish gas monopoly PGNiG fired its chief executive on Monday after she failed to stop a joint venture with Russia's Gazprom from opening the way for a new Russian pipeline cutting out Poland's ally Ukraine.
In Warsaw, sirens wailed and church bells rang to mark the 70th anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, a valiant but failed revolt by Jewish fighters against the Nazi occupiers who already had deported hundreds of thousands of Jews to the Treblinka extermination camp.
Poland's Justice Minister Jaros3aw Gowin ruffled a lot of feathers in late April with controversial claims that Polish fertility clinics had sold Polish embryos to German research facilities for medial experiments.