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The main players in Poland's presidency of the Council of Ministers.

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...

Campaigning for a Catalan nation. Campaigners for a Catalan nation are planning to “internationalize” their cause during Spain's six-month presidency of the EU's Council...

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...

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...

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...

BIRTHDAY parties have an added frisson when a highly controversial birth is being celebrated. There was quite a bash the other day in the streets of Tiraspol - a city that...

THE reviews of British Prime Minister Tony Blair's performance in the European Parliament range from boffo to begrudging respect – not bad for a guy who only a few days...

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...

IT was, in the words of former Polish president Lech Walesa, the moment “generations” of Poles had been waiting for: Tuesday, 20 July, the day when newly-elected Polish...

AN IN-DEPTH knowledge of prostitution in the Middle Ages is not, you would think, a vote winner – even for one of the intellectual giants of our time. And so it proved...

Lech Walesa was in sprightly form on Tuesday (1 June), when he visited Brussels to open an exhibition on the history of the Solidarity movement in Poland's EU embassy. In an...

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...

EU FOREIGN ministers will try to resuscitate talks on the European constitution, which collapsed in rancour at last month's Brussels summit, when they return to the Belgian...

AFTER Pope John Paul II, Lech Walesa is probably the most famous Pole on Earth. But just like his compatriot, the devout Walesa has never forgotten his roots. His office is...

“If [the five economic tests] are not satisfied today they won't be satisfied in another eighteen months time. This weak announcement is...a recipe for confusion, lack of...

IT WOULD seem natural that a foreign minister should be taking a prominent role in his country's referendum on EU entry. But they do things differently in Poland. So...

IT'S just as well Aleksander Kwasniewski is a keen sportsman. In recent months the Polish president's efforts to maintain good relations with both the United States and all...

POLAND'S minority government, struggling to survive for as long as possible ahead of the next regular elections planned for autumn 2001, made an unusual choice this summer...