Traces of antibiotics in frozen chicken cutlets from Poland have been revealed in tests - from a shipment from Poland’s ALMA company last year - carried out by the Czech Republic’s State Veterinary Administration (SVS) The SVS has made tests on … Read More
Still uncertainties about the future exploration and production of shale gas in Poland. US energy giant Chevron wants more dialogue with the Polish government on a draft bill determining new rules. Chevron has four licences to explore Poland’s shale gas … Read More
New figures of foreign workers living illegally in Poland seems to have dropped by 23 percent last year - and the tendency goes on. Between 2010, Poland’s National Labour Inspectorate conducted approximately 6300 checks on firms with a large turnover of foreign employees. … Read More
Poland is one of the countries where former CIA employee and whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied for political asylum, according to the WikiLeaks web site. The web site says that Snowdon, currently in a transit lounge at a Moscow airport, … Read More
Just 11 percent of Poles think that adopting the European single currency would be good for Poland, according to a new poll by TNS Polska .Sixty five percent of respondants told the pollster they thought that replacing the zloty with … Read More
Poland has the lowest prices for food and non-alcoholic beverages in the EU, according to a new study by Eurostat. The EU’s official statistical office found that prices for food and drink in Poland during 2012 were 39 percent below … Read More
7000 teachers could lose their jobs in Poland this year, due to fewer children being born in the country, says Minister of Education Krystyna Szumilas. She stressed that since 2005, the number of children in the Polish education system has … Read More
Poland and Japan are inclined to build closer ties on nuclear and renewable energy, Polish prime ministers Donald Tusk and Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe said after a V4 group summit in Warsaw this weekend. Both Poland and Japan are importers … Read More
An obscure political party with vehemently anti-semitic views has crept onto Poland’s official party register despite flouting the constitution, a Polish newspaper has highlighted. The so-called Together Party of the Slavonic Empire was registered by a Warsaw District Court in … Read More
A small ”religious war” between representatives of Poland’s Roman Catholic Episcopate and the Ministry of Education about introduction of religion exams for pupils completing their end of school matriculation was the subject for a new poll. It showed that 65 … Read More
The planned EU ban on menthol and slim cigarettes (alleged to attract school children to smoking) will hit hard on Poland, where some 20 percent of the booming tobacco industry is in menthol cigarettes. So the Polish government is hoping that especially German … Read More
Polish regions will receive more than €10bn in extra EU funding over the next seven years as part of the forthcoming EU budget, writes Rzeczpospolita. The funds, already allocated by the Ministry of Regional Development, will be used to achieve … Read More
Poland urges companies from the three Baltic States to step into the Warsaw Stock Exchange. Only five Lithuanian companies will be in its trading bourse lists at the end of this year, and the bourse is also waiting for companies from other Baltic countries. “Apart … Read More
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is in favor of importing - from the US - shale gas transformed into liquefied natural gas (LNG). The proposal came after his meeting with US Energy Secretary Ernest Moriz in Washington yesterday. Poland is currently constructing … Read More
Great problems for Polish spirits companies. One in four failed to make a profit in 2012, according to the Union of Employers of the Polish Spirits Industry (ZPPS). Meanwhile, overall profits for 2012 failed to recoup losses from 2011, a particularly … Read More
The encouragament to build more - and larger - families to stop a dramatic demographic drop, Polish President Bronislaw Komorowski is fronting a newly-prepared programme with proposals that aims to create more conducive circumstances for “would be parents”. The proposals include … Read More
Poland’s investigation into alleged CIA prisons for terrorists on Polish soil is proceeding way too slow, Amnesty International has stated in its annual report - critisizing that the deadlines for the completion of the investigation have been repeatedly postponed. Two … Read More
Extra 1,9 million euro secures Polish TV broadcasting to Poles outside the country. Poland’s foreign ministry has renewed its support for TVP Polonia, a branch of public broadcaster TVP aimed at the Polish diaspora. “We want information about Poland to … Read More
Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorsky in an interview to the Polish daily ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ said that he hoped that Vilnius and Warsaw could return to the era of warm relations, writes www.delfi.lt. However, the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs mentioned … Read More
Young Poles are amongst the most hopeful and optimistic about their prospects for future life in EU, particularly in terms of getting a good job and pension, with 33 percent expecting to have a more satisfying job than their parents. Most … Read More
