by Lauren Owens | 23 Mar 2017 | Polish news
There are four priorities that must be included in the Rome Declaration for it to make sense. There is an unwritten agreement that if there is no compromise until Friday about the text, there will be no document at all – said Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło...
by Lauren Owens | 22 Mar 2017 | Polish news
Former Polish Presidents Lech Wałęsa, Aleksander Kwaśniewski and Bronisław Komorowski have appealed to the government in Warsaw in a joint letter for a responsible European policy. The letter was issued just a few days before the 60th anniversary of the signing of the...
by Lauren Owens | 3 Mar 2017 | Polish news
Not so enlightened Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke on Wednesday asserted during a debate on the pay gap between men and women, that women must earn less due to their lower intelligence, weakness and smaller size. The head of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani has...
by Lauren Owens | 2 Mar 2017 | Polish news
The EU Statistical Office Eurostat has recently published a news release concerning learning foreign languages at lower secondary level. French is the second most popular language after English. 98.6% of lower secondary school pupils – that’s more than 17...
by Monika Kardaś | 24 Oct 2016 | Polish news
Discussion about the legitimacy of the time change has been popping up regularly in Poland for several years now. Not only scientists and journalists discuss this issue – politicians also doubt the sense of time changes. The next change takes place on the night from...
by Monika Kardaś | 23 Jun 2016 | Polish news
Brits are deciding about Great Britain’s future in the European Union or outside of it. The pre-referendum survey conducted on Wednesday showed that the Brexiters are in the lead but the winning margin is extremely thin. Today Brits can finally say what they think...
by Trevor Turnbull | 4 Jan 2016 | Polish news
The city of Gdańsk has approved a plan for the region entitled “A low-carbon economy Plan for Gdańsk”. All regions will need to issue such a plan in order to secure EU funding for an ambitious nationwide implementation. Poland is Europe’s worst...
by Trevor Turnbull | 3 Dec 2015 | Polish news
Poland has been benefiting from an allocation of almost 100k tonnes of food aid, funded 85% by the EU from the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD) and the remainder from within Poland. It’s good timing with WP Finance reporting yesterday 5.4% of...
by Trevor Turnbull | 3 Oct 2015 | Polish news
It’s all over the news – a minimum wage proposal of 12zł per hour. It’s low by Western European standards, but by local standards from around 10.67 it’s a chunky 12.5% upgrade. At this stage it’s just a proposal, and it doesn’t...
