Poland - Factors to Watch Sept 3
According to media reports, Polish infrastructure minister Elzbieta Bienkowska will become one of the EU's new commissioners. According to daily Gazeta Wyborcza, Bienkowska will take the internal market and services commission, while daily Dziennik Gazeta ...
Poland : Ericsson and Polkomtel test LTE Broadcast in Poland [TendersInfo (India)]
(TendersInfo (India) Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) Ericsson and Polish telecom operator Polkomtel successfully carried out the first test of LTE Broadcast technology in Poland on August 30, streaming the opening game of the 2014 World Volleyball Championship ...
Poland slashes export insurance rates to bolster produce exports
The Polish government has lowered the export insurance rate in a bid to encourage suppliers to find new markets for produce banned from Russia, while also helping to ease the financial pressures of exporting in the wake of the blockade. Working with the ...
Profile: Donald Tusk’s long way to the top
EU leaders elected Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on 30 August to be the next President of the European Council. EurActiv Poland recounts his long journey from a historian and a private entrepreneur in Communist Poland, to the founder of the Civic Platform party, and one of the leaders of the Eur ...
Birkenau | Brzezinka (1)
Trudno wraca się do takich miejsc jak Brzezinka czy Auschwitz. Od mojego pierwsze pobytu ( http://dominiktomczyk.wordpress.com/2014/04/05/auschwitz-oswiecim/ i http://dominiktomczyk.wordpress.com/2014/04/12/birkenau/) upłynęło trochę czasu, w międzyczasie zmieniły się przepisy wejścia na teren obozu ...
A peace project at a time of war - by Gavin Hewitt - BBC 02/09/2014 18:07 GMT
At last Saturday's summit in Brussels the EU's new foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said that, at heart, the European Union was a "peace project". > It is often defended with those words but now it is a "peace project" at a time of war. The known world is receding. And Europe is struggli ...
NATO Summit: Obama Headed, Sends Message to Russa - 4 Things to Watch
Can the Obama Doctrine neutralize the Putin Doctrine? Can it quash the terror threat from radical Islamic extremism? The answers may well depend on President Obama’s trip this week to Russia-bordering Estonia and a summit of NATO allies in Wales, perhaps the group’s most consequential meeting since ...
New Read: Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law
At the end of July looking forward to my two week holiday in France I picked up Zaremba, or Love and the Rule of Law by Michelle Granas as something a little bit different. Previously I have, in the majority, read historical and fantasy fiction while I thought a thriller might be good for my holiday ...
September 3, 2014
825 years ago 1189 Britannica Richard I (the Lion-Hearted) was crowned king of England at Westminster Abbey. 120 years ago 1894 Canadiana Labour Day was officially celebrated in Canada for the first time. 100 years ago 1914 Born on this date Dixy Lee Ray. U.S. politician. Miss Ray, a Democrat, was G ...
