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Poland has been forced to deny its foreign minister 'joked' that President-Elect Barack Obama's grandparents were cannibals. Writing in his blog, Mr Czarnecki, an MEP, quoted the foreign minister as saying: "Have you heard that Obama may have a Polish connection? His grandfather ate a Polish missionary." A spokesman for the Polish foreign office conceded that Mr Sikorski had made the controversial comment, but denied that the foreign minister had intended to insult Mr Obama, whose father was Kenyan. Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister, has made no comment on the affair. It appears that Mr Sikorski's position is not...

City of Katowice to honor Ronald Reagan with a monument and a square 09.02.2007 The southern Polish city of Katowice may soon rename its central Freedom Square to Ronald Reagan Freedom Square with a monument of this famous US President in the focal point of the square. A group of hundred local public figures and activists from the former anti-communist opposition in Katowice is petitioning the city authorities for this change. The idea is to symbolize both national and individual freedom, as Ronald Reagan’s contribution to Poland’s independence is undeniable and underestimated, say the proponents of the project. The central...

Opponents of Poland's former communist regime reportedly want to pay a posthumous homage to US President Ronald Reagan by erecting his statue in the place of a Soviet-era monument. In an open letter to the mayor of the southwestern city of Katowice, the former anti-regime activists said that the staunchly anti-communist Reagan had been a "symbol of liberty," the Polish news agency PAP reported. As a result, they said, he deserved to become the centrepiece of the city's Freedom Square, replacing a monument to the Soviet troops who drove out the occupying Nazis in 1945. They also said that they...

The idea was appalling to many in the West. Eastern European countries joining the EU would mean a flood of cheap labor. But the wave of economic refugees never came. Instead, hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians and Russians are picking up work in booming Eastern Europe.

Swiat za Kerrym, Polska za Bushem "The World is for Kerry, Poland is for Bush"http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/1,53004,2278483.html MORE GREAT HEADLINES FROM POLAND:http://serwisy.gazeta.pl/swiat/0,53004.html HEADLINES: Bush & Kerry Fight for Votes Teresa Heinz Kerry is not embarassed that she gets her eyes done at a cosmetician to look younger/sexy. ___________________________________________________ POLL: Sondaz Który z kandydatów ma, po serii debat, wiêksze szanse na wygran¹? "Who has the best chance of getting elected?" BUSH 51% KERRY 49% ____________________________________________________

“We’re interested in becoming a concrete part of the arrangement”, said Polish Foreign Ministry spokesman Boguslaw Majewski, after it was revealed on July 10 that Poland has been in secret talks with the United States for the past eight months on locating elements of the US ballistic missile defense system, including interceptor missiles, on its territory. Then it came out that Washington has also been talking to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria about it, but Poland is definitely the leading candidate. Poland’s main problem has always been its geography: sandwiched between Germany and Russia, it was regularly conquered...