Poland's vote: More nationalism or closer ties to Europe?
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In Sunday's election, polls show voters may oust pro-Catholic, anticorruption Kaczynski twins.
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Some demographics and details about how Americans felt about the 2004 presidential election.
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People in Poland will shortly begin voting in a parliamentary election called two years ahead of schedule.
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WLOSZCZOWA, Poland -- For two years, Poland has been ruled by the Kaczynski brothers, identical twins with a talent for making enemies. With one perched in the presidential palace and the other in the prime minister's office, they have unapologetically picked fights with the European Union, Germany,...
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KIEV, Dec 13 (IPS) - Most western analysts rejoice in what they describe  as the latest struggle for democracy in former Soviet territory,  but among the divided Ukrainian and Russian commentators the mood  is slightly different. Some ask why for the West democracy is  orange, and the blue votes do not count.
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Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski said on Monday that his country fully supports Serbia-Montenegro's efforts to join the European Union (EU). Poland supports all efforts by Serbia-Montenegro to return to ...
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Belarusians' decision whether to scrap presidential term limits in a referendum this weekend could determine if this East European nation will remain an isolated Soviet-style throwback or slowly turn toward the West.
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WARSAW (International Herald Tribune) - The text message spread with viral speed among the cellphones of Polish teens. With national parliamentary elections coming up Sunday, kids had a clear mission: "Steal your grandmother's ID," the text jokingly implored. The message referred to the conventional wisdom here that conservative older women put the ruling Law and Justice Party and the Kaczynski brothers - the notorious twins with the round faces of aging cherubs who are prime minister and president - into office. Without their identity cards, the grandmothers would not be able to vote. If granny does not vote, the government could be driven from office.  Teenagers guffawed. The Kaczynskis fumed. Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that those who repeated the message "act against you and also against the Polish nation." The small Polish Peasants Party quickly ran its own advertisement in which a grandmother catches her grandson in the act of snatching her identity card. She tells there's no need for him to steal it, because she plans to vote for the Peasants Party and not Law and Justice. In the previous 2005 election, Law and Justice benefited from low voter turnout, needing only 3.2 million votes in a country of 38 million to take control of government in a coalition with several smaller parties. The most recent coalition fell apart over a contentious scandal-filled summer, leading to early elections this weekend.  Opponents are counting on a strong turnout by younger voters this time around. The latest opinion polls show Civic Platform, a free-market, pro-European rival party, poised to win the election Sunday. But polls here have proved highly unreliable, skewed by the country's historically lethargic turnout, which was a little over 40 percent in the elections two years ago.
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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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PRAGUE- Right-wing and left-wing extremists share opposition to the Czech Republic's EU accession, the effort to establish contacts abroad and have tendency toward militancy, according to an annual report, ...
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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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Voting is due to being in Hungary on a double referendum on citizenship rights and the health care system. Voters are being asked whether to offer citizenship to about 5 million ethnic Hungarians living outside Hungary.
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Â· East Europeans 'pose integration challenge'Â· Councils urged to rethink strategies on diversity
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"They handled the Poles well but they probably underestimated the damage done in Poland by the Schroeder government."  May replace failed EU constitution UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL BRUSSELS -- Germany ends its presidency of the European Union with a major achievement in the agreement on a new treaty to replace the failed ... via World Peace Herald
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Europa protagonista positiva delle relazioni internazionali
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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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In Poland, the mood is mixed. Three of four Poles questioned by The Associated Press said they would not vote even if they could.