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Poland’s President not afraid of Russia Created: 16.08.2008 10:39 Despite aggressive rhetoric coming out of Moscow, President Lech Kaczynski thinks the West is stronger than Russia and can and must stand up to it. Russia’s anger with Warsaw for its strong support of Georgia in the war over South Ossetia grew on Thursday evening when the Polish government announced that it had signed a preliminary agreement with Washington to house ten interceptor rockets on its soil as part of the US antimissile shield in Europe. An American garrison is also to be hosted in northern Poland by 2012. On Friday...

Left accuses president of damaging Poland's image Created: 14.08.2008 16:23 One of the left opposition leaders, Wojciech Olejniczak, has accused Poland’s president of "demolishing Polish foreign policy". According to the former head of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), the President Lech Kaczynski has caused measurable damage to Poland. In Olejniczak's opinion, the head of state’s confrontational approach towards Russia is damaging not only Poland's relationship with Moscow, but also with the European Union. President Kaczynski, along with the Presidents of Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Ukraine, went on a peace mission this to Georgia to show support for the country in...

Kaczynski in Tbilisi: ‘We are here to take up the fight” Created: 13.08.2008 11:18 Polish President Lech Kaczynski delivered a confrontational speech in support of Georgia at a rally in Tbilisi, Tuesday. “We are here to take up the fight. For the first time in years our eastern neighbours show their true face that we have known for hundreds of years”, Kaczynski addressed the crowds gathered at a rally in Tbilisi on Tuesday evening. “They think other nations should be subordinated to them. We say no! That country is Russia,” Kaczynski shouted to the applauding crowd. The Polish President accused...

AUGUST 12--Imprisoned Unabomber Ted Kaczynski is upset that his former Montana cabin is on display at a Washington, D.C. museum, contending that the FBI's decision to allow its "public exhibition" runs counter to his victims's desire to limit further publicity about the deadly terror spree. Kaczynski, housed in the "supermax" federal prison in Florence, Colorado, learned of the cabin's display via a June 19 ad in the Washington Post, according to a handwritten letter he recently sent to a three-judge U.S. Court of Appeals panel. A copy of the letter can be found below. Referring to "publicity created by the...

Polish president calls for peace in Georgia, reiterates support for Georgia's territorial integrity WARSAW. AUGUST 8. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The internal conflict between Georgia and its separatist republic South Osetia should be resolved in a peaceful manner, while Georgia's territorial integrity should be protected, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said Friday. "The president of Poland is looking at the developing situation in Georgia with the highest concern," reads a statement issued by Kaczynski's office. "The president wishes to stress that conflicts should always be resolved peacefully. The president's position is that Georgia's full sovereignty and territorial integrity should be recognized...

President to veto flat tax rate and abolition of TV and radio licence 13.11.2007 16:18 It seems that the PO-PSL coalition will have to forget about their pre-election promise of a painless introduction of flat-rate taxation, and they will also face problems getting rid of the TV and radio licence. Michal Kaminski, head of the president’s office told Polish Radio 3 on Tuesday morning that Lech Kaczynski would veto such laws if they were passed by the parliament. Kaminski reminded that the president had previously declared that he would "stand up for the rights of ordinary people" and therefore would...

Atlantic Eye: Radek Sikorski's patriotism Published: Nov. 12, 2007 at 9:07 AM By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The people of Poland have spoken. Thankfully, they have dumped Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his xenophobic Law and Justice Party, or PiS, for Donald Tusk. Tusk is the head of the centrist, free-market Civic Platform, or PO. A bone of contention is former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, now nominated to be Poland's foreign minister, whose appointment Kaczynski has been attempting to block. Sikorski, an independent and severe critic of Communism, resigned as Poland's defense minister last year...

Poland, untwinned Published: October 24, 2007 Polish voters have rendered a clear, negative judgment on the fear-mongering political style of the Kaczynski twins, President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, and their 15 months of joint rule. They decisively rejected the Kaczynskis' Law and Justice party, turning instead to the center-right, pro-business, Civic Platform, whose leader, Donald Tusk, is now expected to become prime minister. Lech Kaczynski's job was not at stake Sunday - he remains president until 2010. But his power to veto future legislation will be largely nullified by the new parliamentary arithmetic. The Kaczynskis spoke, and...

WARSAW, October 23 (RIA Novosti) - Poland's outgoing prime minister said Wednesday that Russia still poses a threat to Poland, as it fails to fully acknowledge the country's sovereignty and independent foreign policy. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who will resign as premier on November 5 to make way for center-right election winner Donald Tusk, has taken a harsh line on negotiations with Russia and Germany during his two years in office. The prime minister has frequently reminded the countries of injustices inflicted by the Nazi regime and the Soviet occupation. Kaczynski, whose twin brother Lech is expected to stay on as president...

Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is conceding defeat as exit polls give a pro-business party a large lead over his ruling nationalists in Sunday's parliamentary elections. Mr. Kaczynski promised his Law and Order Party will be a strong opposition during the next government. Civic Platform is a center-right party which has pushed for lower taxes on businesses, a smaller bureaucracy and closer integration into the European economic system. Tusk has said he will seek to withdraw Polish forces from Iraq. Sunday's election brings to an end two years of conservative rule by Prime Minister Kaczynski and his twin brother, President...

I'm surprised nobody has posted this before, so here are the first exit polls / projections: Civic Platform - PO: 44.2% Law and Justice - PiS: 31.3% Left and Democrats - LiD: 12.2% Polish People's Party / Peasant Party - PSL: 7.9% Unfortunately, the link is in Polish, so only those who speak it need to click!

President Kaczynski - Russia must change with the world 27.09.2007 President Lech Kaczynski has spent the last four days in the United States. The highlights of his visit have been the UN summit in New York with an appeal for international solidarity in countering sources of adverse climatic change and also numerous meetings with represenatives of Polish organisations in America. Slawek Szefs reports However, observers point to some statements during President Kaczynski's visit which may have greater bearing on the course of policies concerning Poland than the UN debate on climate warming. President Lech Kaczynski has appealed to Russia for...

TO must be more aggressive on world stage: Polish president CHICAGO: NATO must take a more active role in maintaining global stability, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in a speech here Tuesday. NATO should "gain in significance by taking more action on the global and regional level," the Polish leader told the Chicago Council on Global Affairs. "There is no other organization which is more efficient, which would have a harder security structure," he said through a translator. While the United States has a dominant voice within the alliance, it does not mean NATO is "unilaterally governed by the United...

Young Polish workers have flocked in the hundreds of thousands to the UK, Ireland and Sweden to find work since Poland's EU entry in 2004. Now Poland is faced with a serious lack of skilled workers and Warsaw wants to entice them back home. One of Poland's biggest exports since joining the European Union has been its own people. But now Warsaw has decided the brain drain needs to be reversed and the government has launched a campaign to entice the migrants to come back home. In one of the biggest exoduses in post-war Europe, between 1.2 and 2 million...

The testimony by Poland's Former Minister of Interior about Polish Government use of special services organizations to spy on political opponents has stopped proceedings of the Polish Parliament. And the stoppage may end up being long term. Parliamentary Speaker Ludwig Dorn said if the opposition continues to demand breaks the current session could "go on for months". Yesterday, during the reading of the secret testimony of Former Minister of Interior Janusz Kaczmarek, Former Minister of Education Roman Giertych exploded when he learned that conversations between him and Former Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper were recorded and transcripts of their conversations...

WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said he expected early elections in the autumn after his conservative party gave him the green light on Saturday to push for a snap vote to end weeks of political turmoil. Early elections have been on the cards in the biggest ex-communist EU member after bitter fighting within the coalition formed by the ruling Kaczynski twins, a far-right party and a rural leftist faction. "Elections could be on October 21," Kaczynski told a news conference. "In November at the latest."

Sense and Solidarity for Poland by Susan Easton Posted: 07/26/2007 How many of you knew that the President of Poland came to America on July 16? Thought so. This state visit was essentially overlooked by the media. Poland has a long history of being treated like the Rodney Dangerfield of nations. As far back as the 18th century, historians referred to “The Negative Poland Policy,” the European practice of bribing noblemen to keep this besieged country no more than an agricultural backwater. When it joined the European Union in 2004, after decades of Soviet domination, the hope was that Poland...

Polish President credits Reagan for helping topple communism Jul 17, 2007 7:52 PM (20 hrs ago) AP SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Map, News) - Ronald Reagan's tough stand against communism inspired a Polish people eager for change and helped unseat the repressive regime in that nation, Polish President Lech Kaczynski said Tuesday. In a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library, Kaczynski said the eventual ouster of the communist government in Poland "would have not been possible if it was not for the tough-mindedness, determination and feeling of mission of President Ronald Reagan." Reagan's leadership and political pressure from the United States...

POLAND PREZ A TRUE-BLUE ALLY By CHARLES HURT, Washington Bureau Chief July 17, 2007 -- WASHINGTON - Poland's leader yesterday stood solidly behind President Bush and warned that a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq now would be like the disastrous pullout from Vietnam in the 1970s. "We need to remain there, in spite of the fact that it is very costly and very painful," Polish President Lech Kaczynski told The Post in an interview during his visit to D.C. last night. Poland, a close U.S. ally, has maintained about 1,000 troops in Iraq since the 2003 invasion. A withdrawal "brings significant...

U.S., Polish leaders defend missile defense plan WASHINGTON, July 16 (Xinhua) -- U.S. President George W. Bush met his Polish counterpart Lech Kaczynski at the White House on Monday with the two sides having defended plans for a missile defense shield strongly opposed by Russia. "There's no better symbol of our desire to work for peace and security than working on a missile defense system," Bush said as they held talks in the Oval Office. The missile shield "would provide a security for Europe from single-or dual-launch regimes that may emanate from parts of the world where leaders don't particularly...

PRESIDENTIAL NEWS OF THE DAY: President and Mrs. Bush spent the weekend at the White House, where they attended a T-ball game today. The President will meet with Polish President Lech Kaczynski tomorrow to discuss plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe. Bush and Polish president to focus on missile shield Reuters WARSAW: President George W. Bush meets President Lech Kaczynski of Poland on Monday to iron out details of plans for a U.S. missile shield in Eastern Europe that is straining relations with Moscow. Underlining the growing tension between Russia and the West, President Vladimir Putin on...

(BERLIN) - The German press on Sunday slammed Poland and Britain for putting obstacles on the road to the deal reached on guidelines for a new European Union treaty at the bloc's summit this week. Bild, the country's top selling newspaper, reserved its harshest criticism for neighbouring Poland, calling the Kaczynski twins who hold the posts of Polish president and prime minister "poison dwarves". "It would have been better if this summit had failed," the newspaper said in an editorial, adding that the bitter dispute over Poland's voting rights has shown that there is little hope for unity in the...

Poland on Friday night finally offered to end its fierce battle with Germany for European Union power, paving the way for an 11th-hour deal on a revamped version of the EU’s constitution. Poland’s ruling Kaczynski twins held out until after midnight in tense summit negotiations in Brussels before agreeing to a treaty to modernise the Union, according to EU diplomats. Lech Kaczynski, president, and his brother Jaroslaw, prime minister, agreed to a compromise formula in the face of an ultimatum from Angela Merkel, German chancellor. Ms Merkel, furious over Poland’s repeated references to the second world war during the summit,...

The Polish PM has stunned European leaders today with an astonishing attack on Germany for starting the Second World War. In a spectacularly undiplomatic outburst, he said his country was losing out in today's European Union as a direct result of the millions of deaths that followed its invasion by Germany in 1939. "We are only demanding one thing - that we get back what was taken from us," said Jaroslaw Kaczynski at the opening of the EU summit in Brussels, chaired by German chancellor Angela Merkel. "If Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939-45, Poland...

Poland's prime minister says he has no bank account The Associated Press Published: May 21, 2007 WARSAW, Poland: Poland's prime minister says he has no bank account, and instead deposits his money with his mother — an arrangement that he insists is no "eccentricity," a newspaper report and his office said. "For the first time in my life I have savings, but I still don't have an account," Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who took office last year, was quoted as saying in the weekly Wprost on Sunday. "I keep my money in my mother's account." Kaczynski said the decision "is...

Two Polish-US summits ahead 23.04.2007 Polish president is due to meet George W. Bush in the White House in mid-July, reciprocating a visit the US president will make in June. Michal Kubicki reports Last weekend both Polish and US sources confirmed that there will be TWO summits shortly, with the American president first coming to Poland in early June. This is going to be a short visit, lasting several hours, to take place most probably on June 8. President Bush will come to Poland from the Group of Eight summit in neighbouring Germany and will have discussions with his Polish...

Forum: Praising the Kaczynski brothers April 8, 2007 Who becomes Page One news is easy to guess. However, the rest of the world is not standing still, and a look at some medium-size players serves as a reminder that the world does not end with Iran and Iraq. Poland is such a player: several thousand Polish soldiers went to Iraq and Afghanistan, many died, and the Polish government has not declared (as have many other allies of the United States) that it intends to withdraw Polish forces from these two countries by a certain date. The Polish economy is growing...

President Kaczynski wants Christian values in EU Constitution 09.03.2007 President Lech Kaczynski, who is participating in the EU Brussels summit, has appealed to include references to Christian values in the Berlin Declaration to be adopted in connection with the 50th anniversary of European integration. The Polish head of state acknowledged the proposition is not acceptable to France, but declared Poland’s willingness to work for a change in this stand. ‘Not every European has the duty of being a Christian. But the statement that Christianity lay at the roots of European culture is clearly historic and not ideological in nature. It’s...

Spot the the difference between president and prime minister Poles are moles apart By INQUIRER THE REMARKABLE PAIR running Poland aren't easy to tell apart. While Lech Kaczynski fills the office of president, brother Jaroslaw sits in the prime minister's office. Although, if they swapped jobs for day, no-one would notice, since these identical twins look so alike. To help out, an online game has appeared on the Interweb. It's Polish language content shouldn't put you off too much. All you have to do is tell the Poles apart. Have a go here

Geopolitical Diary: Trying to Redefine Poland February 20, 2007 03 00 GMT Polish President Lech Kaczynski on Feb. 17 released a 374-page report on the workings of the recently liquidated Military Intelligence Service (WSI). The report betrays the country's intelligence apparatus of the past 15 years, outing its practices, people, connections and expertise. Opposition leaders have said the report is a guidebook to Poland's national security. Kaczynski dissolved the WSI in October 2006, saying the agency had overstepped its jurisdiction and infiltrated every aspect of Polish life with agents in political parties, media and businesses. The report is intended to...

Poland's twin leaders face accusations of filling ranks with loyalists lacking experience WARSAW, Poland -- A day after they forced out Poland's respected minister of defense, the identical twins who run Poland face accusations they have packed the government with inexperienced loyalists -- and damaged the country's international standing. Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, president and prime minister respectively, are brothers who share conservative nationalist values and a passion for rooting out former communists from public life. Now, both face charges of cronyism after they replaced their defense chief with a presidential insider. Radek Sikorski, an experienced defense minister with solid...

Poland's Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is furious about being compared to Putin by the Polish edition of Newsweek, published by Germany's Axel Springer. He's calling for "limits" to be set on German influence in Polish media. The German publisher Axel Springer has made plenty of enemies in its 60-year history. Generally, though, the right-leaning publisher has to fight off attacks from the left. But this time it has managed to offend one of Europe's most prominent right-wing politicians, Polish Primer Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Kaczynski is annoyed about the current Polish edition of Newsweek, which is published by Alex Springer under...

Polish prime minister arrives in Baghdad to meet politicians, Polish troops The Associated Press Published: December 20, 2006 BAGHDAD, Iraq: Poland's prime minister met with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki in Baghdad on Wednesday, telling him Poland wants to continue its policy in Iraq. The visit came a day after the Polish government asked its president to prolong the mission of the country's 900 troops in Iraq for another year, until the end of 2007. "I am happy to be here," Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said at a news conference with al-Maliki in Baghdad. He added that Poland wants to...

Short summary of a Spiegel article: After a private organisation of expelled persons who had to leave former eastern Germany in 1945 started a lawsuit against Poland for compensation, the Polish foreign minister, Mrs. Anna Fotyga said that Poland want to negotiate the treaty concerning the boarder. She obviously is backed by the Polish Prime minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Mr. Kaczynski said, that in Germany there is absolute stubbornness about to take on the liability of such lawsuits against Poland. The full article is in German. You can read it if you follow the link.

President calls reporter 'monkey' December 16, 2006 POLISH President Lech Kaczynski thought only a close adviser was listening when he described a journalist as "that monkey in red" at a news conference during a European Union summit. But a television microphone caught the aside, in which the conservative Mr Kaczynski whispered to the aide not to take a question from the woman reporter. "Not from that monkey in red," the president said. At a later media appearance on Friday, Mr Kaczynski was unrepentant but said he had not intended to insult the reporter's appearance. "I don't answer questions related to...

Paper renews potato jibe at Polish leader BERLIN - A German paper published photos comparing Poland's president to a potato on Monday on the eve of a summit between Germany, Poland and France -- five months after the three-way meeting was scrapped following a similar jibe. Berlin's left-wing Tageszeitung daily printed two pictures of Polish President Lech Kaczynski next to potatoes on its front page below the headline: "Which one of you is it that's coming again?" The paper sparked a furore in July when it called newly elected Kaczynski "Poland's new potato" and said he was among "rogues who...

Report: Poland's president uneasy over Russia-German ties The Associated PressPublished: December 2, 2006 BERLIN: Poland's president expressed unease with political cooperation between Germany and Russia, suggesting in remarks published Saturday that Germany's leaders should be more critical of Moscow's growing assertiveness. The comments from President Lech Kaczynski, in an interview with the German weekly Focus in an advance release of its Sunday edition, underline a growing concern in Poland that strengthened ties between its two large neighbors will squeeze it out of important political and economic deals. In particular, Warsaw strongly opposes a German-Russian plan to build a gas pipeline...

(CBS 5) A decade after the feds tracked him down, CBS 5 Investigates has uncovered exclusive new information about the Unabomber. Anna Werner reports on the tricks Ted Kaczynski used, the code he developed, and how he got away with his violent acts for so long.

Polish President warns against "gay culture" 07-November-2006 PinkNews.co.uk Writer Whilst on a visit to Britain, The President of Poland, Lech Kaczyñski has spoken out against "gay culture," warning that it may cause the death of heterosexuality within Europe. stration whose main objective was an incitement to hate and intolerance toward LGBT people. Mr Kaczyñski who had talks with the Prime Minister, Tony Blair spoke to the BBC's News Night programme earlier tonight. Quizzed on his stance on gay rights by Kirsty Wark, Mr Kaczyñski said: "I haven't changed my position at all." Adding: "There always have been and always will...

Germans and Poles Trade Insults in "Potato War" A Polish newspaper has published a list of satiric suggestions on about how to make Germans happy. It was the latest salvo in a not always side-splitting battle of comedy between the two neighbors. How to help Germans feel better about themselves? The Polish tabloid Super Express on Monday proposed changing the rules of soccer so that matches can only end after Germany scores a goal, instituting potato salad as a type of dessert and issuing free pictures of Polish-born porn actress Teresa Orlowski to help Germans combat the problem of declining...

Polish premier suggests accord on WWII claims before German visit The Associated Press Published: October 29, 2006 BERLIN Poland's prime minister advocated an accord with Germany to eliminate restitution claims rooted in World War II, insisting in remarks released Sunday that Warsaw wants to clear up "misunderstandings" that trouble relations. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is to make his first visit to Berlin on Monday, and will meet with Chancellor Angela Merkel. Relations between the countries have soured since Kaczynski's nationalist conservative Law and Justice party took power in Poland a year ago. "Misunderstandings can and must be cleared up together,"...

Poland's Anti-Gay Premier Outed Poland's homophobic Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski-the identical twin brother of Polish President Lech Kaczynski-was outed as a homosexual in major Polish media last week in the midst of a political crisis that threatened to cause his government's downfall. Poland's second-most important newspaper, Rzeczpolita, published documents-some only recently declassified, and some that were leaked-from the files of the Polish Secret Service that discussed Prime Minister Kaczynski's homosexuality. As part of an investigation, begun in 1992, of right-wing political parties that, the documents said, "could threaten democracy," a Secret Service department then headed by Colonel Jan Lesiak reported,...

Polish leaders resist pressure for abortion ban 8:08 a.m. October 27, 2006 WARSAW – Poland's conservative leaders, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, have rejected pressure from their ultra-nationalist allies to introduce a blanket ban on abortion in the overwhelmingly Roman Catholic country. Poland already has one of Europe's toughest abortion laws but the League of Polish Families, junior members in the ruling coalition, want abortion outlawed even in cases of rape or when the mother's health is threatened. 'I am for keeping the status quo,' Polish President Lech Kaczynski was quoted as saying on Friday. 'The compromise reached on abortion 13...

'The Five Who Saved The Honor Of Europe' Returning to last week's informal EU summit in the Finnish town of Lahti, 'Liberation' one of the leading French newspapers has praised Polish President Lech Kaczynski as one of the handful among 25 Union leaders who did not avoid uncomfortable questions addressed at their guest Vladimir Putin in fear of a Russian energy dictate. Story by Slawek Szefs 'About The Five Who Saved The Honor Of Europe' is the title of an article in the Tuesday edition of 'Rzeczpospolita', a major opinion forming daily in Poland. The remaining four mentioned are the...

Poland is Israel's New Best Friend, as Evidenced by Recent Nobel Proposal By Tad Taube SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 19 (JTA) -- A Polish-Israeli Nobel Peace Prize candidate? Sounds crazy, no? The idea was advanced by Polish President Lech Kaczynski during his visit to Israel last month and received the enthusiastic support of Vice Prime Minister Shimon Peres. The proposed Nobel candidate, Irena Sendlerowa, 96, is a Polish Catholic who oversaw the children's section of Zegota, the Polish underground body that saved 15,000 Jews during World War II. Through her efforts, 2,500 Jewish children escaped death at the hands of the...

The Polish leader glad to be in company with the British By Bronwen Maddox and Robert Thomson In his first interview with a British newspaper, Lech Kaczynski talks about the shadow of his country's tortured past and his vision for the future THERE is a man in Warsaw who has a small problem created by the thousands of Poles who are minding children, mending pipes and painting houses in London. The President, Lech Kaczynski, can’t find a handyman to paint his private apartment. The Polish leader is about to join this extraordinary wave of migration next month when he visits...

Warsaw pact Poland should account for the past but focus on the future It is often easy for people in the West to forget that it is only 17 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of communism. This was a real liberation, not just one party giving way to another: communism was corrosive, corrupting and all-pervading. The totalitarian ideology tore the social fabric of those countries that it dominated. Little wonder, therefore, that the psychological recovery has sometimes taken longer than the West expected. Overcoming the communist past is the leitmotiv of the current Government...

Police hunt farting dissident Police in Poland have launched a nationwide hunt for a man who farted loudly when asked what he thought of the president. Hubert Hoffman, 45, was charged with "contempt for the office of the head of state" for his actions after he was stopped by police in a routine check at a Warsaw railway station. He complained that under President Lech Kaczynski and his twin brother Jaroslaw, the country was returning to a Communist style dictatorship. When told to show more respect for the country's rulers, he farted loudly and was promptly arrested. Hoffmann was arrested...

Polish govt under fire after secretly filmed talks By Natalia Reiter and Pawel Sobczak Reuters Wednesday, September 27, 2006; 7:05 AM WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland's political crisis deepened on Wednesday after television aired secretly filmed meetings that sparked calls on the prime minister to step down. The ruling conservatives of Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski are trying to build a new majority coalition after ditching their leftist partners Self-Defense last week in a row over the budget and a decision to send troops to Afghanistan. But their efforts suffered a blow when TVN television late on Tuesday showed footage of Kaczynski's...

Visiting Uncle Sam kaBy M.M. 20 September 2006 On his first official trip to the United States, Polish Prime Minister Jaros³aw Kaczynski discussed energy security and NATO. But not possible plans to build a U.S. missile base in Poland. On his recent trip to Washington, D.C., Kaczynski talked with Vice-President Dick Cheney, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and, briefly, President George W. Bush. Other important parts of his four-day trip included a meeting with Polish Americans and the handing over of the first F-16 fighter jet, which will soon start service in the Polish air force. Kaczynski started his first...