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POLAND'S conservative Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz said he would resign on Monday, paving the way for party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski to take power alongside his twin brother, the president. The reshuffle, just nine months after the brothers' Law and Justice Party topped general elections, could unsettle financial markets as investors distrust the Kaczynskis' euroscepticism and their suspicion of free market forces. "On Monday morning I will submit my resignation to President Lech Kaczynski," Prime Minister Marcinkiewicz told a news conference overnight. Mr Marcinkiewicz had already offered to step down late on Friday, shocking politicians and the public, but his resignation...

Polish Prime Minister resigns. President Kaczynski's twin brother a likely replacement 07.07.2006 Prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has announced his intention to resign. His party - conservative Law and Justice - has suggested Jaroslaw Kaczynski, conservatives' leader and twin brother of president Lech Kaczynski, as Marcinkiewicz's successor. Official decisions will be announced by the ruling party on Saturday.

Via email from: http://gabriellegoldwater.com Secret Evidence for Secret Prisons?By Cliff Kincaid  |  June 9, 2006European leftists went crazy over the charges and demanded the probe. http://www.aim.org/aim_column/4631_0_3_0_C/ Send this page to a friend Format this page for printing Desperate to justify its Pulitzer Prize-winning story about CIA "secret prisons" in Europe, the Washington Post on Thursday claimed that a European investigator by the name of Dick Marty had found "signs" or "indications" of their existence. In fact, the investigator's report admits he found no "hard evidence" of what the Post reported to be true.The U.S. State Department spokesman said about the...

Polish Prime Minister talks to EuroNews about Russian relations and plans for Poland's economy. Poland's parliamentary elections in autumn this year threw up no clear winner. The country's new Prime Minister, Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz heads up a minority cabinet made up of the Law and Justice Party as well as populist parties which include 'Self-Defense' and the far-right 'League of Polish Families'. "Law and Justice's" election campaign centred on promises to defend what it described as "christian values". The party opposes liberal economic theories and intends to maintain a high level of state protection for the poor. It's also pledged to...

Blair and Polish Leader Visit Troops By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Published: December 23, 2005 BASRA, Iraq, Dec. 22 (AP) - Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain made a surprise visit to Iraq on Thursday. He said Iraq's security and political situation had improved, but he refused to set a timetable for withdrawing troops. Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz of Poland, whose government is debating whether to extend the mission of its 1,400 troops, also visited Iraq. The previous government had pledged to withdraw its force in January, but a report quoting Polish military officials said Mr. Marcinkiewicz would extend the mission....

Mathematician and economics expert Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz was poised to become Poland's next prime minister after being appointed to the post by his conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party. "After discussions, I decided that Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz is the candidate most able to rapidly and efficiently form a government," said PiS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. "This decision has been accepted by the leaders of PiS," said Kaczynski, whom pundits had tipped as the party's most likely choice for prime minister, a post he said he would refuse to avoid jeopardising his twin brother Lech's chances of winning next month's presidential election. "If my...

The party now favored to win parliamentary elections wants to make Poland a "cheap state," and has outlined an ambitious economic plan that it believes could pull GDP growth up to seven percent per year. Law and Justice (PiS), the current leader in both the parliamentary and presidential polls, has outlined its economic plan which, if realized, could save the Treasury billions, eliminate state involvement in over a thousand companies, and make setting up a business in Poland possible in just three days. Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, PiS' economic point-man and current leader of the Parliamentary Treasury Commission, told the Polish-Swiss Chamber...