WARSAW. SEPTEMBER 28. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - The following is a calendar of expected events, data releases likely to impact Poland’s economy.

WARSAW. SEPTEMBER 28. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland’s governing conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party slightly extended its lead over the top opposition party, the center-right Civic Platform (PO), ahead of October 21 early parliamentary elections, polls showed.

WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland plans a benchmark euro-denominated bond issue in the first quarter of 2008, a deputy finance minister said today, confirming earlier plans.

(Reuters) - Poland’s rural voters could prove decisive in next month’s parliamentary election.

Alina Wycech fears Poland’s Catholic values are threatened, suspects a corrupt elite is trying to claw back power and distrusts the European Union despite its subsidies for her farm.

WARSAW. SEPTEMBER 28. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland will not reconsider its refusal to allow the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to monitor early parliamentary elections unless it modifies the diplomatic verbal note sent to the Polish government, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Friday.

Warsaw, Sep 28(IANS) The Indian Embassy and the Indian Association in Poland are making elaborate preparations to celebrate Gandhi Jayanti here on Oct 2.

Brussels - The European Commission threatened Poland with legal action for failing to clamp down on cod overfishing as a new standoff between Brussels and Warsaw erupted.

(Angus Reid Global Monitor) - Next month’s election in Poland could see only three parties represented in the lower house, according to a poll by PBS DGA published in Gazeta Wyborcza. 30 per cent of respondents would back the opposition Civic Platform (PO), up two points since early September.

In this year’s World Bank ranking “Doing Business 2008″ Poland came 74th - up one place from last year but urgent reforms are needed, says the bank.