[Malesherbes]

Item: Germany and France have aging populations and are in steep population decline. Poland has a young population and a stable birth rate.

Item: the two countries in Europe where polls (no pun intended) show a general absence of anti-Americanism are Poland and Ireland.

Item: I was in Warsaw when Chirac made his nasty remarks about East Europeans. The Polish Foreign Minister, quoted in the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, said "Poland expects respect!"

Item: The title of the Polish national anthem is: "Poland hasn't perished yet." It sure hasn't - and may it long survive and prosper.

[Feldkurat_Katz]

Poland has a young population and a stable birth rate.

Wish it was true, alas, in recent years they went down to 1.3 children per woman. Polish center-left media are beginning to make casual remerks about inevitability of immigration.