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The two-day EU summit beginning in Brussels tonight marks an end of the era with the Lisbon Treaty now finally in effect.

Poland will fail to rein in its budget deficit to within European Union limits until at least two years after the EU's 2012 deadline, said former Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska .

Two candidates were named by Poland's ruling party Civic Platform for the central bank's new Monetary Policy Council which sets interest rates on Thursday.

This morning I had the privilege of attending a briefing at the Woodrow Wilson Center with anti-communist icon Adam Michnik.

The chief of NATO rallied behind Obama's plan to send 30,000 more forces to Afghanistan, pledging 5,000 more from other NATO members.

The coalition government of the Civic Platform and the Polish People's Party , headed by Donald Tusk, has hailed what it says are a string of accomplishments during its first two years in office, which ended Nov.

European leaders and top diplomats hailed President Barack Obama's speech defining the new U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, but few countries were forthcoming Wednesday with pledges of fresh troops.

Poland's prime minister says his country is leaning toward beefing up its 2,000-strong contingent in Afghanistan.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski signed the gambling bill, but has doubts as to whether it is in line with the country's constitution.

President Lech Kaczynski's Web site said Friday that he had signed the law. It provides for punishments of up to two years in prison for people who possess, purchase or spread items or recordings containing communist symbols.

A measure was passed by Polanda s Senate to limit gambling casinos. This means that online poker and poker rooms are not supported.

Most Poles are opposed to Prime Minister Donald Tusk's proposals to strip the president of his power of veto and have him chosen by parliament instead of by voters, two opinion surveys showed yesterday.

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A Polish court has ruled that the current inhabitants of a house in the north of the country must leave so that it can be reclaimed by the ethnic German woman who owned it before leaving the country in the 1970s.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in a letter to the country's premier he was worried about the country's energy security and gas supplies from Russia.

Political parties in Poland are gearing up for the presidential elections due in a year's time.

President Lech Kaczynski on 5 November signed off on an amendment to the VAT act that transposes into the Polish legal system three EU directives regarding VAT collection and reporting.

Polish President Lech Kaczynski said his country will never agree to remove crosses from its schools.

Catholic Poland has joined the Vatican in criticizing a European court ruling against the display of crucifixes in Italian schools.

If Presidential elections were held in November, Donald Tusk would receive 24 percent of the votes, according to the latest poll of GfK Polonia.