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Polish foreign minister resigns Poland's Foreign Minister Stefan Meller has announced his resignation as a populist Euro-sceptic party is poised to enter the ruling coalition. Mr Meller, 63, had threatened to leave the government if Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz agreed a deal with the agrarian Self-Defence party. Its leader, Andrzej Lepper, has a reputation for direct action campaigns, such as blocking roads. The conservative coalition led by Law and Justice was finalised on Thursday. The deal boosts the party's support but still denies it a working majority. Law and Justice has struggled to form a coalition since its narrow win...

Russian and Ukrainian press on Meller's speech 16.02.2006 Moscow (PAP) - In a commentary concerning Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Meller's speech on tasks of the Polish foreign policy presented Wednesday the Russian daily Vremia Novostey described the part on Polish-Russian relations as "the most emotional one and having a rich content". The daily stressed that recently Mocow and Warsaw have visibly changed the way they are speaking about each other. The tension which began when Poland supported Ukraine's Orange Revolution has started to ease, the daily said. The daily quoted Meller's words who said that "it is in Poland's interest...