News from Poland

National

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  Polish Radio collects fairy tales for liver transplant boy

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Polish Radio is collecting fairy tales for Tomek, the mushroom poisoned six year old liver transplant patient, to help him recover.
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  Expelled MEP fights back

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Marek Migalski,the MEP expelled from the European Conservatives and Reformists delegation in the European Parliament, writes on his blog today that he “regrets the decision” and the move will “weaken the group”.
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  Smolensk TU 154 - who decided to leave behind Russian navigator?

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 At a press conference outlining the progress of the investigation into the TU 154 which crashed in April killing President Kaczynski and 95 others, the military prosecutor has said that it was decided by the government not to take a Russian navigator
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  Thenews.pl best English language news site - perhaps

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 The Economist, no less, has said that thenews.pl is the best site for news about Poland in the English language.
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  Kaczynski critic expelled from European party delegation

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 An MEP associated with Law and Justice has been expelled from the party’s delegation inside the European Parliament after he criticised the leadership of Jaroslaw Kaczynski.
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  Bishop Pieronek - Church should break with politics

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 One of Poland’s leading bishops has lambasted Poland’s Roman Church establishment and the opposition Law and Justice party for getting involved in the struggle over the Smolensk cross outside the Presidential Palace in Warsaw.
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  Unis to monitor graduates’ career

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 Starting from October 2011 Polish universities will be obliged to follow their graduates’ career paths in research to see how affective higher education is on the job market in Poland.
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  Trade union membership plummets in Poland

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 Just 15 percent of Polish workers are members of trade unions and that figure is set to fall still further.
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  Flood victims demand millions from state

  Created: Wednesday, September 1 2010 Seventeen residents of the southern towns of Sandomierz, Tarnobrzeg and Gorzyce, who suffered from floods in Spring, have filed a class action against the Polish State.
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  Kiddies’ uni opens in Torun

  Created: Wednesday, September 1 2010 The Nicolaus University in Toruń opens its gates to children, letting them tap into and helping develop their intellectual potential.