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Countries Lobby for More in Race for U.S. Visas -
The government of South Korea hired a former C.I.A. analyst, two White House veterans and a team of ex-Congressional staff members to help secure a few paragraphs in the giant immi...
Why Does Poland Want to Join the Eurozone? -
It defies belief that Poland and others are still keen on joining the economic doomsday machine of the single currency....
An Anti-Communist's Fall from Grace -
Though Poland is steeped in Catholic tradition, it is also going through spectacular social change, which appears to have left Walesa in the 20th century. Openly gay celebrities ap...
British Hypocrites Scold Eastern Europe Once Again -
The horsemeat saga has prompted the British media to sharpen their knives again. Not so that it can get stuck into a burger, lasagne or some other questionable product spawned by t...
Europe's Most Catholic Country Seeks Modern Pope -
The Polish Catholic Church openly supports the conservative Law and Justice party, which aggressively opposes the moderate coalition government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk and hi...
Britain's Anti-Immigration Campaign -
For the last three decades, Britain has been busting a gut to advertise itself to tourists as a land of plenty for foreigners, a message that reached its highest volume during last...
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Why the Poles Are Moving to Britain - Sarah Rainey, Daily Telegraph
A Polish friend, who grew up in south London, laments that the recent wave of Polish migrants to Britain has played havoc with his morning commute. Not, he says, because of the she...
World Politics After the Next Energy Boom - Aviezer Tucker, Foreign Affairs
Unconventional energy technologies, such as hydraulic fracturing, are here to stay. They have already produced a staggering glut of natural gas in the United States, and in the yea...
Poland's Shale Gas Dream - Dimiter Kenarov, Foreign Policy
bout a year ago, Poland lit what it calls the "Flame of Hope," the first flare to burn over a shale gas well in the country. Its photo ran as a full-page ad in Gazeta Wyborcza and ...
Poland Becoming Hub for NATO - Andrew Michta, Public Service Europe
Ever since the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation's initial post-Cold War enlargement, the absence of United States military assets in Central Europe has been seen as indicative of...
Changing Face of European Terrorism - John Schindler, National Interest
Last week the Polish government announced the thwarting of a terrorism plot that is worrisome in its audacity and in who was behind it. In a country with minimal experience of terr...
Poland's Never-Ending National Nightmare - Liam Nolan, The Atlantic
Just when Poles thought the ghost of Smolensk had disappeared, up it popped again. Last week, Polish military authorities exhumed the body of another wrongly identified victim of t...
No, Obama Did Not Abandon Poland - Stephen Flanagan, Foreign Policy
In the foreign policy debate last week, Governor Mitt Romney repeated an assertion he's made throughout the campaign: that, in "pulling our missile defense program out" of Poland, ...
Polish Prime Minister Tusk's Winter of Discontent - The Economist
POLAND’S centrist government is being battered on all sides. Growth is slowing, unemployment remains high, and a combination of austerity and scandal is stoking public discontent...
Why Poland Is the New France for Germany - ECFR
It needed the tragic airplane crash in Smolensk in 2010, where Poland lost half of its military-politico elite, to effect a complete u-turn, not only in the Polish-Russian, but als...
Poland's Middle Class Searches for Ancestors - Tomasz Zarycki, Eurozine
As the new Polish middle class seeks to establish its own identity and to break with the traditional ethos of the central European intelligentsia, it may find a model for integrati...
Anti-Government Protests in Warsaw - Eastern Approaches
ANTI-GOVERNMENT protests at the weekend saw an estimated 50,000 demonstrators in the streets of Warsaw, under the slogan "Wake up, Poland". Most were supporters of Law and Justic...
Poland Peels Back Layers on Secret CIA Prison - Roy Gutman, McClatchy
On an idyllic lake surrounded by woods and a double row of mesh-and-razor-wire fences about 100 miles north of Warsaw, there stands a secluded villa that the CIA once used to inter...
Obama Abandons Eastern Europe - Michal Kuz, National Review
Adding insult to injury has become a trademark of President’s Obama policies regarding Poland and other Central and Eastern European (CEE) states. After several political jabs an...
Romney's Excellent Trip - Charles Krauthammer, Washington Post
Scorecard? Romney's trip was a major substantive success: one gaffe (Britain), two triumphs (Israel and Poland) and a fine demonstration of foreign-policy fluency and command — w...
Romney Is the True Face of America - Adrian Hamilton, The Independent
You can say, as every commentator has, that Romney's mis-steps mean nothing back at home, that it is the domestic economy not foreign policy which will determine the outcome of the...
Dissecting Romney's Tour de Gaffe - S. Fischer & C. Hebel, Der Spiegel
In the end, Mitt Romney tried to find something positive to say about his European adventure. He said an important lesson he had learned is that "rejection of one kind or another ...
Why Culture Matters - Mitt Romney, National Review
The linkage between freedom and economic development has a universal applicability. One only has to look at the contrast between East and West Germany, and between North and Sout...
Obama Lost Poland. Can Romney Win It Back? - Benjamin Weinthal, FP
After the "Romneyshambles" of his London visit, the U.S. Republican presidential candidate has a good chance to end his European tour on a high note as he arrives in Poland on Mond...
The Highs and Lows of Romney's Foreign Trip - Frank James, NPR
As Mitt Romney nears the end of his seven-day trip abroad, it's safe to call the results mixed at best. The trip to Great Britain, Israel and Poland had several goals. It was mea...
Mitt Finds Solidarity in Poland - Alana Goodman, Contentions
Polish Anti-Communist and Nobel Peace Laureate Lech Walesa embraced Mitt Romney’s candidacy during his visit to Poland this week, but later added that Romney has to work a bit o...
Romney's Safe and Predictable World Tour - Steve Coll, New Yorker
Mitt Romney, the Republican Party’s presumptive nominee, lacks a defining foreign-policy disagreement with the President, which makes an overseas campaign trip more problematic. ...
Why Poland Would Probably Vote for Obama - Andrzej Jonas, CNN
If people in Poland could vote for U.S. president, Barack Obama would probably get at least half the vote. While that’s probably much less than in the liberal countries of Weste...
Romney's Itinerary a Rebuke of Obama - Charles Krauthammer, Wash Post
A generation ago, it was the three I’s. A presidential challenger’s obligatory foreign trip meant Ireland, Italy and Israel. Mitt Romney’s itinerary is slightly different: ...
How Poles View the American Election - George Weigel, National Review
Well-informed Poles know that, barring some cataclysmic international event between now and November 6, the 2012 U.S. presidential election will be fought and decided on domestic U...
Golden Age of Polish-American Relations Is Over - Eastern Approaches
VIEWED from Europe, the United States seem larger than life. So does the statue of John Paul II and Ronald Reagan unveiled last weekend in Gdańsk, a city on Poland’s Balti...
Europe Needs a Multiethnic Miracle - Yascha Mounk, Slate
Why Jewish Poles, black Germans, and headscarf-wearing Italians are the continent's best hope....
Once Strong Catholic Church Declines in Poland - Jan Puhl, Der Spiegel
Twenty years ago, the Catholic Church played a major role in the fall of communism in Poland. Today, with the country changing rapidly, the church's influence is quickly waning. On...
Romney's European Vacation - Daniel Larison
I know why Romney chose Poland, but it’s not a good choice. Romney's hang-ups about U.S. Russia policy are going to collide with inconvenient realities once he gets there. ...
Will Poland vs. Russia Spark Soccer War in Warsaw? - Tony Karon, Time
Three decades ago, Poland lived in fear of waking up on any morning to see the Russians marching through Warsaw’s streets. On Tuesday, that fear will be realized. Of course, ...
Poland Leaves Its East Behind - Laurent Geslin, Le Monde Diplomatique
Poland has been enjoying an economic miracle, with growth of 3.8% in 2010 and 4% in 2011. Yet the rural eastern provinces are lagging behind the rest of the country. “We are ...
Obama Stumbles into a Touchy Polish Debate - Michael Moynihan, Tablet
Since the fall of Soviet communism, the framing of recent Polish history, finally liberated from the pedagogical dictates of an occupying government, which allowed a single, tenden...
Obama Pours Salt on a Polish Wound - Alex Storozynski, New York Post
Poles thought that by honoring Karski, Obama was going to set the record straight about the death camps. But by using this phrase to honor a Polish war hero, our president poured...
Poland: Eastern Europe's Success Story - E. Follath & J. Puhl, Der Spiegel
There are cities that are as uninteresting as the stone they are made of, rigid and heavy, done up as stylishly as if they had been completely untarnished by the vagaries of histo...
Rethink the Russian Reset - The Economist
America's missile-defence plans are aimed at Iran, not Russia. But they are also a token of transatlantic seriousness about Europe. Any suggestion of making them a bargaining chi...
The European Country that Didn't Contract - Ruchir Sharma, GPS
Question: What was the only economy in Europe that did not suffer a contraction in the global debt crisis of 2008-2009? Answer: Poland....
U.S., Terrorism and a World of Secret Wars - Rafia Zakaria, Dawn
The programme, which CIA officials say was discontinued in 2009, secretly transported prisoners to countries where torture was legal so that it could be used to extract information...
In Poland, Embracing Europe But Not the Euro - Michael Birnbaum, WaPo
Poles have realized that the big league ticket was in their pockets all along. Their own currency, the zloty, has buffered Poland from the turbulence surrounding it, and few here...
A Berlin-Warsaw Euro Alliance? - Baranowski & Kleine-Brockhoff, GMF
For hundreds of years, Poland suffered from an overbearing Germany that trampled on the rights of the Polish nation, occupied the country, and, at times, worked to extinguish the P...
Post-Communist Lessons for the Arab Spring - Fareed Zakaria, CNN
As Egypt, Tunisia, and Libya transition from dictatorship to democracy, you'd think they'd look to America as a model for their new governments. But they don't. America is s...
Eastern Europe Swings Hard Right - Keno Verseck, Der Spiegel
Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán only needed a few years. In that short time he managed to turn his country inside out. Civil liberties and press freedoms were reined in, th...
Russia's Plan to Disrupt U.S.-European Ties - Lauren Goodrich, Stratfor
With the United States not responding to the renewed Russian aggression, many Europeans may be forgiven for wondering if the United States is planning to trade its relationship w...
We Need Germany More Than We Fear Her - Radek Sikorski, Fin. Times
The break-up of the eurozone would be a crisis of apocalyptic proportions, going beyond our financial system. Once the logic of “each man for himself” takes hold, can we reall...
About Poland
- Republic of Poland
- Population: 38,482,919 (34th)
- Area Size: 120,728 sq mi (69th)
- GDP: $670.7 billion (22nd)
- Currency: Zloty (PLN)
- Official Language: Polish
- Capital City: Warsaw
- Largest City: Warsaw
Poland Prosperity Rank: 29 |
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