News from Poland

Press

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  Diet martyrs

  Created: Tuesday, September 7 2010 Slimming madness has struck Poland, notes Rzeczpospolita under the title “Dukan’s diet martyrs”.
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  Youth take strain of economic downturn

  Created: Monday, September 6 2010 Up to 3 million twentysomethings may be out of work in 2011, in the wake of the economic downturn, writes Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.
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  Debtors, baby traders and battered men

  Created: Friday, September 3 2010 Bank debts on the rise, baby trade booming in Poland and a growth of male victims of family domestic violence.
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  What about the workers?

  Created: Thursday, September 2 2010 Several days after the 30th anniversary of the August Agreements, the Metro daily takes a look at the sorry state of the modern trade union movement in Poland.
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  Solidarity squabbles over 30 year anniversary

  Created: Wednesday, September 1 2010 Former opposition activists want to hand over the celebrations of the Solidarity anniversaries to the state authorities, writes Rzeczpospolita.
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  Walesa at peace with his ideals

  Created: Tuesday, August 31 2010 Reality proving too remote from expectations, the Solidarity legend skips union gala anniversary events.
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  What happened to the Solidarity?

  Created: Monday, August 30 2010 In the press today…Solidarity’s anniversary and EU’s reactions to the expulsions of Roma from France.
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  Cross in Komorowski’s hands

  Created: Friday, August 27 2010 RZECZPOSPOLITA front pages the results of a public opinion survey on the dispute over the cross, which has been standing in front of the presidential palace since the days of national mourning.
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  Fall of Kaczynski?

  Created: Thursday, August 26 2010 Jaroslaw Kaczynski is rumored to consider retirement from party leadership in autumn.
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  Cost of living on the rise

  Created: Wednesday, August 25 2010 Rzeczpospolita on its front page considers the rising cost of living. The good news is that new taxes will not ravage our pockets… the bad that indeed food prices are slated to go up by as much as 6%. The paper cites statistics that an average Polish