POLAND:  Not Done With Fighting the Past
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KRAKOW, Aug 23 (IPS) - After a tough decision by Poland's  constitutional court, and with early elections looming, it  remains unclear how the country will deal with its  government's attempt to expose former communist  collaborators.
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In Krakow, a new generation of non-Jewish Poles is rediscovering a culture that was nearly annihilated by the Holocaust.
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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Polish lawmakers moved Friday against a swell of restitution claims by Germans who lost property in Poland after World War II with a resolution calling on Berlin to take responsibility for all such claims by ...
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Poland is in no rush to decide on hosting a U.S. anti-missile base before American elections as a change of guard at the White House could scuttle the project, Poland's foreign minister said on Saturday.
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POLAND WASHINGTON -- The prime minister of Poland told his Parliament yesterday that he would begin reducing the number of Polish troops in Iraq in January, another blow to the US-led coalition that has lost nearly a third of its members this year. Addressing legislators before a vote of confidence, Prime Minister Marek Belka promised, ''We will not remain in ...
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In Poland, the mood is mixed. Three of four Poles questioned by The Associated Press said they would not vote even if they could.
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Henryka Krzywonos-Strycharska has, unlike most of the former democracy movement leaders in Poland, moved on to other things besides politics.
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Polish troops used no tanks or other tracked vehicles in the ancient city of Babylon, but the presence of foreign troops had a "negative influence" on the site, a spokesman for the Polish-led force in Iraq said ...
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WARSAW -- Poland's new government is threatening to put the brakes on the Pentagon's drive to build a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, insisting that the project cannot go forward unless the country receives a big increase in U.S. military aid and other commitments.
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The United States has its political power families &amp;#151; the Kennedys, the Clintons, the Bushes. But nothing quite like what is developing in Poland, which faced the almost certain prospect Saturday of having identical twins as prime minister and president.
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WARSAW (Der Spiegel) -- 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. Get the whole story here
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Tourists coming to Britain often rave about drinking in traditional English pubs. Now they've got another type to choose from -- the traditional Polish pub.
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The Ukrainian presidential election and its aftermath have been marked by propaganda that is exposing old fractures in the former Soviet republic. Differences that are broadly defined by an east-west divide are bursting to the surface.
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"The worst situation would be for Poland to say yes, and then have to pay the political price, and afterwards the shield would not be built because of a change of government in the US"  Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski in an interview published Saturday said his country had still not given its approval for the planned US missile defence system in Poland. via Earth Times
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WARSAW, Jan 16  Poland's Defence Ministry today denied charges that Polish troops in Iraq had damaged the site of ancient Babylon, one of the world's most famous archaeological treasures, while using ...
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A case before the European Court of Human Rights is being seen as a landmark that could force Poland to compensate Holocaust survivors and their descendants for their material losses.