News - Poland

Ombudsmen from 110 countries have come to the town of Oswiecim, southern Poland for a celebratory session marking the 60th anniversary of the adoption of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The financial crisis has already influenced Polish economy. In this situation many companies predict redundancies . So far, only big companies hava announced that almost 7,5 thousand people are going to lose their job soon.

Meteorologists and climatologists have no doubts: there will be no winter this year. Instead of frost and snow-covered slopes we will have temperature above zero and autumn-spring weather.

Polish PM Donald Tusk said in Paris that the issue of the anti-missile shield is the subject for talks between Poland and the United States exclusively. He also reiterated that "third-party countries are not part of these negotiations".

Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced that nine central European states and French president Nicholas Sarkozy will meet in Gdansk on December 6 to discuss their concerns about an EU timetable for slashing greenhouse gas emissions.

Defense minister Bogdan Klich has concluded his visit to India.

Today marks the 30th anniversary of setting up of MONAR, a special association established to help young people in their fight with drug addiction, and later expanded into a centre to help the homeless.

New headquarters of Silesian Museum created on the premises of an old mining "Katowice" can be heated with thermal water, which due to the safety measures must be pumped out from the undergroud excavations.

The European Commission is asking the Polish government to cooperate on the issue of Polish shipyards. Meanwhile, Members of European Parliament are calling on Brussels to show more flexibility in talks with Warsaw. Is it possible that the problem of Polish shipyards may still be solved without major economic losses for Poland?

Polish prime minister Donald Tusk has left for China. His visit opens the opening ceremony of the Polish Chinese Economic Forum in Shanghai.