Rights of Polish workers defended
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A major union joins forces with the Roman Catholic Church to raise concerns over Polish workers' rights.
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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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Romanies feel discriminated against in the Czech Republic as well as other EU countries, and individual cases of discrimination are mostly not solved but by court, Alan Anstead from the European Romany Rights ...
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Events mark 25 years since Poland's communist government tried to crush the Solidarity movement.
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Poland is to hold a regional referendum to try to defuse a row with the EU and environmentalists.
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Polish officials say that legal documents compiled in a new book bolster their ownership claim of drawings by Renaissance master Albrecht Durer that were looted by the Nazis during World War II.
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Some Polish workers in Britain are illegally claiming child benefit in both the UK and their home country, a BBC investigation has found. Officials in a number of Polish regions told the BBC that up to half the applications they see are fraudulent.  EU rules allow migrant workers to claim benefit for children who are in a different country, but they cannot do so in two countries at once. A similar problem involving German-born Turks led the German government to rescind acknowledgment of dual nationality several years ago.
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Excerpt from report by Kyrgyz news agency 24.kg website  A committee has been set up in [northwestern] Kyrgyzstan's Talas Region to protect the rights of detained participants in the protest campaign against the development of the Dzheruy gold mine.
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Longer working hours have sparked a heated debate in several northern European countries where businesses seek to remain competitive and unions claim jobs are being held hostage.
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Poland signaled on Wednesday it could accept a European Union voting system it has battled against for months, provided it receives a stronger say in the 27-nation bloc's deliberations.
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Polish and Czech leaders spoke on Monday  in favor of allowing the United States to use their territory  for parts of an anti-missile defense system that has raised  Russian ire, saying it would also protect Europe.
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Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka addresses lawmakers in the Parliament ahead of the vote of confidence on his government, in Warsaw Friday Oct. 15, 2004.
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"We will not insist on an initial requirement of two years."  Poland backed down on a key objection to a treaty to reform European Union institutions on Monday, allowing the bloc to proceed with negotiations to turn the political deal reached last month into a legal text. via The Epoch Times
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WARSAW, Poland -- A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than it was under communism, his wife said yesterday.
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Octogenarians who fled Poland before their orphanage was forced into a ghetto are among the last links to Janusz Korczak, who inspired the declaration of childrenâs rights.
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski stepped up the rhetoric over European Union voting rights Wednesday, saying Poles were ready to &quot;die&quot; to get their way on the issue.
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The decision of the Polish parliament on Friday to demand reparations from Germany for World War II draws dismay from German lawmakers.