(STRASBOURG ) - Poland is a great country with a very poor government, the head of the European parliament’s Socialist group said Wednesday.

Polish authorities said Wednesday they had no immediate plans to punish fishermen who are catching cod in the Baltic Sea and defying a European Union freeze imposed to preserve the species.

Poland’s Cabinet is likely to change its mind and invite international observers to monitor general elections Oct. 21. Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski said a European voting watchdog group should first change unfortunate words it used in a lett…

Poland’s Cabinet is likely to change its mind and invite international observers to monitor general elections Oct. 21.

WARSAW. SEPTEMBER 26. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland’s Monetary Policy Council (MPC) upheld its restrictive bias in spite of surprisingly low consumer price inflation (CPI) figures for the past two months, a post- sitting communique on Wednesday showed.

According to District 861 officials, Choir Director Peter Schleif has a plan to repay the $21,000 the he came up short for a trip to Poland with 43 students and eight chaperones last June.

Poland’s prime minister says his country is ready to review its decision not to invite observers from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe to monitor next month’s parliamentary elections. Jaroslaw Kaczynski told reporters his government could reconsider its decision on the monitors - if the organization changes the tone of the note it sent to Polish authorities on the issue. …

WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Poland’s central bank looks sure to hold fire at its September sitting today, awaiting fresh signals of growth in inflationary pressure before it raises interest rates for a fourth time, probably before the end of the year.

WARSAW (Thomson Financial) - Cadbury Schweppes is considering investing 270 mln eur in a new production facility to be located either in Poland or Slovakia, Polish daily Puls Biznesu reported today, citing an unnamed source.

The body in charge of Poland’s communist-era secret police archives announced on Tuesday that it was posting the files of top officials, including the president, on the internet.