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Jerzy Buzek's linguistic problems. European Parliament President Jerzy Buzek has run into some linguistic problems in his attempt to have an area in Brussels, next to the...

EU leaders and officials pay their respects after Poland's “unimaginable catastrophe”. The European Union's three main institutions lowered their flags to half-mast...

EU leaders approve composition of group mandated to ponder the future of Europe. EU leaders today approved the addition of nine members to a group mandated to reflect...

Tough questions about the past of the iconic leader of Poland's Solidarity movement should be answered, not dodged. Did the most famous living Pole, Lech Walesa, collaborate...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk's hopes of reaching a civilised modus vivendi with Lech Kaczynski, Poland's president, suffered a setback last week. Tusk may have ousted...

The profile of Donald Tusk (‘Low-key liberal', 29 November-5 December) was highly interesting. But it almost confirmed my doubts that Tusk's appointment as head of the...

As Donald Tusk, Poland's new prime minister, made his inaugural speech in parliament last week he might have reflected that he owes his victory mainly to the support of young...

The victory of Donald Tusk's Civic Platform Party in Poland has been greeted in Brussels with a sigh of relief that at least one of the troublesome Kaczynski twins has been...

Poland has the longest and trickiest list of demands in the run-up to the political negotiations on a new reform treaty to be held in Lisbon on 18-19 October. Jarosław...

Mr/Ms Deer is totally right. I live in Poland and I feel the same. Even if his text was meant more like a joke, for me it is unfortunately reality. I voted for this man (Lech...

Two big puzzles in Europe are what the UK will be like under Gordon Brown and how to deal with Poland under the Kaczynskis. There are striking similarities. Both the...

“The future of the European project is today predicated on Europe's ability to be a leading political player.”Jacques Chirac, French president, expresses his...

Ever since they came to power almost a year ago, Poland's ruling twins, the Kaczynski brothers, and their right-of-centre Law and Justice party have been causing a stir both...

EU newcomers have recently made Europe-wide headlines with outbursts of homophobia which horrify even mainstream conservatives in western Europe and which human rights...

The spring economic summit (23-24 March) will see a major test of the effectiveness of the Polish government's strident stance towards the EU. Polish Prime Minister...

Small, precocious and odious is a description often applied to child actors. Four decades ago, Lech Kaczynski and his identical twin brother Jaroslaw were angelic teenage...

At the risk of interfering in domestic politics, EN admits to being seduced by the idea of the Brothers Kaczynski, who are not a Dostoevsky novel but a Polish political...

Say what you like about Jacques Chirac, or Tony Blair, or even Gerhard Schröder, but as politicians they are built to last. They stick at it. They take the knocks. They...

STARS from stage, screen and sport will be among those lining up for next week's elections to the European Parliament. An eclectic mix of would-be MEPs will contest the...

EUROPEAN Parliament President Pat Cox said ‘hello' to MEPs from the ten new member states, while at the same time waving ‘goodbye' to the post he has held for...