Go to the Content Thursday, 9 February 2012
Your search for "Solidarity" produced 35 items.
| 1. Buzek hails new transparency during his term | January 12, 2012 |
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Jerzy Buzek's term as president comes to end on 17 January. Jerzy Buzek puts the overhaul of the MEPs' code of conduct high on the list of his main achievements during his... |
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| 2. Polish enforcer | July 14, 2011 |
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The fast-moving career of Mikolaj Dowgielewicz, Poland's EU affairs minister. When the first Poles walked off the ferry at Dover on 1 May 2004, the day Poland joined the EU,... |
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| 3. Poland's movers and shakers | June 23, 2011 |
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The main players in Poland's presidency of the Council of Ministers. |
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| 4. Poland goes it alone | May 19, 2011 |
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Poland unveils its presidency logo. Good news for Europe's graphic artists. The precedent set by Spain, Belgium and Hungary is not to be repeated. Those three countries,... |
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| 5. Parliament president says further reform is needed | September 23, 2010 |
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Buzek acknowledges that MEPs have little appetite for a new round of in-house reform.
The president of the European Parliament says he will continue to push for a more... |
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| 6. Tusk wins Charlemagne award | May 13, 2010 |
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Poland's prime minister becomes the second Pole to win European prize. Donald Tusk, Poland's prime minister, was today awarded this year's Charlemagne Prize for his... | |
| 7. A lack of European solidarity | May 12, 2010 |
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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... |
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| 8. Tributes pour in for Polish leader | April 12, 2010 |
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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... |
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| 9. Job-swaps at the top | June 18, 2009 |
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Poland's European commissioner set to head to the Parliament. It seems that Danuta Hübner, Poland's European commissioner, will, like Louis Michel, Belgium's European... | |
| 10. Commission is right to get tough with Poland over shipyard aid | October 16, 2008 |
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The Polish government's plans to save three shipyards is a bad idea. Poland's striking shipyard workers in Gdansk, Gdynia, and Szczecin forced the Soviet Union to blink. Out... |
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| 11. Polish minister says shipyard rescue plan is best possible | September 25, 2008 |
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New plan will not meet all Commission demands; Polish government wants to inject €361m in aid. The Polish minister responsible for drawing up the latest plan to save... |
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| 12. Poland struggles to come to terms with its history | June 19, 2008 |
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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... | |
| 13. The pretender | January 10, 2008 |
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The fall of communism in Poland produced many astonishing political careers as the regime's former opponents emerged from cramped, book-lined apartments to take their places... | |
| 14. Low-key liberal | November 29, 2007 |
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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... | |
| 15. Big Brother | August 31, 2006 |
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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... | |
| 16. Reform fatigue energises far-right parties | July 13, 2006 |
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For the second time in two months, a newly elected prime minister in a member state which joined the EU in 2004 has brought openly nationalist and xenophobic parties into the... | |
| 17. The caustic complaints of a ghetto survivor | July 13, 2006 |
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Lodz (pronounced Wootch) is one of the most lacklustre cities in Poland. But in a leafy suburb of this hard-scrabble former textile town a living legend is puffing his way... | |
| 18. The Brother | November 3, 2005 |
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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... | |
| 19. Wary welcome for rural right-turn | November 3, 2005 |
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They may be themselves both on the right of the political spectrum, but ultimately the votes that truly counted for the two candidates for the Polish presidency on 23 October... | |
| 20. Rocco returns for gong at show of Solidarity | October 6, 2005 |
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This time last year, Rocco Buttiglione was being vilified by the Socialists in the European Parliament, who blocked his appointment as European commissioner for justice,... | |
