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In 2000, the son of a prominent post-communist politician, Leszek Miller, was involved in a suspicious transaction that made him earn one million dollars without investing anything. Was this a huge bribe for the son of the soon-to-be Prime Minister of Poland? The police finally get down to investigating the case that has remained in the dark over the past 6 years. Another major corruption scandal involving post-communist politicians from the left wing Democratic Left Alliance party (SLD) may be brewing. This time it's the son of the former Prime Minister of Poland, Leszek Miller, who earned one million dollar...

WARSAW, Poland -- Prime Minister Leszek Miller stepped down today after helping lead Poland into the European Union, his government weakened by unresolved economic problems, corruption allegations and a split in the governing party. After receiving Miller's resignation, President Aleksander Kwasniewski was to appoint former finance minister Marek Belka as new prime minister in a ceremony at the presidential palace. Coming the day after Poland's historic entry into the EU, Miller's handover to a caretaker underscores the domestic uncertainty afflicting a key U.S. military ally in Iraq. Miller said he was proud to have attained EU membership, the most important...

<p>WARSAW, Poland (AP) -- Prime Minister Leszek Miller announced Friday he will step down the day after Poland joins the European Union on May 1, taking the blame for his government's collapse in popularity and raising the prospect of early elections.</p>

Failure to agree on a new constitution does not herald the beginning of the end for the European Union, but illustrates how hard it will be for an expanded 25-member bloc to be an effective and coherent world force. If EU leaders cannot agree on how they should do business with each other, what hope do they have of presenting a united and forceful front to the rest of the world? For several countries, notably France and Germany, the ultimate pay-off from a fully integrated and expanded EU is the creation of another political pole as an alternative to the...

<p>WARSAW, Poland (Reuters) -- Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller has vowed to attend a key European Union summit next week, even in a body cast if must be, after injuring his spine in an emergency helicopter landing.</p> <p>Miller and 14 people were injured when a government helicopter carrying them crashed in a forest near Warsaw during the emergency landing, apparently due to an engine failure late on Thursday . No one was in critical condition.</p>

Leszek Miller, the Polish prime minister, was taken to hospital last night after his Soviet-era helicopter crash-landed near Warsaw. Leszek Miller Polish television reported that Mr Miller was being treated for spinal injuries after he hobbled out of the 26-year-old Mi-8 helicopter. The craft had to make an emergency landing after both engines failed. It apparently struck some trees before landing heavily in a field near Gora Kalwaria, 12 miles from the Polish capital. Witnesses spoke of the helicopter falling out of the sky. Eleven other passengers and crew were injured. The prime minister was returning from the south of...