[The Prague Post]– Before signing the Lisbon Treaty, President Václav Klaus demands an exemption for the Czech Republic from a human rights protocol he says could open the country up to restitution claims from Germans expelled after World War II. But the timing of his request and the increasingly intense rhetoric surrounding Lisbon is magnifying [...]
[France 24]– Poland’s President Lech Kaczynski signed the European Union’s reforming Lisbon Treaty in a ceremony Saturday, leaving his ultra-eurosceptic Czech counterpart Vaclav Klaus as the only holdout. “The fact that the Irish people changed their minds meant the revival of the treaty, and there are no longer any obstacles to its ratification,” Kaczynski said [...]
[Krakow Post]– Poland’s Social Insurance Office (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych, or ZUS) is in trouble. In August of this year, it hit its “magical figure”, meaning that three working persons are now covering each retiree in Poland – and that’s only if “grey area” employment is counted. When only those working “officially” are considered, the ratio [...]
[The Local]– Meat from Swedish stockpiles dating back to the Cold War has been sold to Poland to be served in restaurants, according to a report in the Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) newspaper. The Swedish state phased out its stockpiles of tinned meat at the end of the 1990s. The Swedish Board of Agriculture then sold [...]
Despite yesterday’s news of no missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic, the U.S. is still expected to fulfil one part of the agreement it signed with Poland in August 2008. The U.S. has said that it will send a deployment of Patriot missiles to Poland, and contrary to previous statements, they will be [...]
[The Moscow Times]– U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday abandoned plans for a missile defense shield in Central Europe that had irritated Russia, and invited Russia to cooperate in the development of a more advanced defense system. “The best way to responsibly advance our security and the security of our allies is to deploy a [...]
The remains of more than 2,000 German civilians discovered in a mass grave in the town of Malbork in northern Poland have been reburied at a ceremony at one of the country’s German military cemeteries on Friday. The victims are believed to have been caught up in the Russian army’s offensive in what was then [...]
