Poland's vote pleading  is sheer hypocrisy
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Comment is free: Anne Karpf:  Half of Poland's war dead were Jews - and the Polish record on Jews is a mite troublesome.
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Â· Vote would block funds for eastern Europe projectÂ· Committee says system too costly and untested
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Poland is braced for rival demonstrations planned by members of the governing conservatives and liberal opposition as the country's tumultuous politics spilled onto Warsaw's streets.
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Poland formally told its European  Union partners it could not accept a reformed voting system  enshrined in the defunct EU constitution, raising the prospect  of a crisis at a crucial summit later this week.
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The Polish government last night rejected a demand by MPs that it should seek compensation from Germany for its actions during the Second World War.
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Poles began voting on Sunday in a snap  parliamentary election that could cost the ruling Kaczynski  twins their full grip on government in the European Union's  biggest former communist country.
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WARSAW, Poland  - Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated out of victory in his country's presidential election.
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Around 20,000 Poles took part in rival  demonstrations in the capital on Saturday over whether the  ruling conservatives, who are struggling to form a coalition,  should call a snap election.
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More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.
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Since identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski shot to power in Poland last year, the EU newcomer has become the bloc's enfant terrible &#151; deepening ties with Washington and displaying Euro-skepticism on everything from the economy to the environment.
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Poles voted Sunday in a parliamentary election which could see the liberal opposition win power from the outspokenly conservative Kaczynski twins.
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Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate &#151; a sign of anxiety over the prospect of instability and rising Russian influence so close to home.
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Since identical twins Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski shot to power in Poland last year, the EU newcomer has become the bloc's enfant terrible _ deepening ties with Washington and displaying Euro-skepticism on ...Comment
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Tit-for-tat response is denounced as 'completely unjustifiable' by David Miliband.
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Poland's parliament is widely expected to pass a motion on Friday triggering an early election pitting the ruling conservative Kaczynski brothers against the main, pro-business opposition party.
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Poland's parliament voted to dissolve itself Friday, forcing an election that the government had sought to end persistent political turbulence. President Lech Kaczynski set the vote for Oct. 21, two years ahead of schedule.Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the president's twin brother, said the election would give voters a fresh chance to endorse what he calls his party's struggle to fight the corruption that has plagued Poland since the fall of communism in 1989.'I want to express my joy at parliament's decision to dissolve itself,' Kaczynski told reporters in parliament. 'These elections will create the chance for Poland to decide whether it wants to continue on its path of transition, however difficult, or whether it wants to follow the path of the rule of oligarchy.' Read more
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"They will come to you and say: Give me your coat. Take off your pants. Give me your shoes."  More than 700 people in Poland, including a former prime minister and foreign minister, signed an open letter condemning statements about Jews by a right-wing Roman Catholic priest who runs a controversial radio station.A magazine had reported that Rev. Tadeusz Rydzyk, during a lecture earlier this year at a journalism school, described Jews as greedy and criticized President Lech Kaczynski for donating land in Warsaw for a Jewish museum.Hundreds of people _ including former Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki and former Auschwitz inmate and Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski _ signed the letter, saying Rydzyk's comments 'revealed his contempt' for Jews and fellow Christians. Read more