Poland expect to have Grzegorz Bronowicki fit for UEFA EURO 2008™ after the FK Crvena Zvezda wing-back had a successful operation on a knee injury.

25.04.2008 - 09:23 CET | By Lucia Kubosova Despite its image as a strong ally of the US, Poland has indicated it would support a boost in Europe’s defence activities, including setting up the bloc’s own military planning headquarters.

In a major shift in policy, Poland, long considered a close ally of the United States, wants the European Union to strengthen its military role.

A rocket hit Poland’s embassy compound in Baghdad on Thursday, lightly injuring one security officer, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said.

Poland’s foreign minister says a rocket or mortar has hit the country’s embassy in Baghdad. One embassy worker was lightly wounded in the attack.

WARSAW (AFP)–A planned visit to Poland by France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy has been postponed for at least a month, a senior official said Thursday, amid suggestions that Polish political wrangling was to blame.

Poland is closer than ever to regulate online gambling. Deputy Minister of Finance, Marek Kapica, said earlier this week that Poland is ready to move on with legalizing and regulating online gambling before the end of the year.

For nearly four years, Britain’s construction and hospitality industries have flourished thanks to the influx of an estimated one million Polish workers – but now Poland wants them back. The Warsaw government is so worried about a national labour shortage in the professions that it plans to advertise in the UK to encourage expatriate Poles to return to the country that many of them left after …

WARSAW. APRIL 23. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland’s economy is likely to expand by 4.9% in 2008 and by 4.5% the following year, the International Monetary Fund said in its April’s World Economic Outlook presented Wednesday. Poland’s GDP stood at 6.5% in 2007 from 6.2% the previous year.

WARSAW. APRIL 23. INTERFAX CENTRAL EUROPE - Poland’s government does not believe that the country’s support for Georgia in its diplomatic row with Russia will lead to a worsening of Polish-Russian relations, Deputy Foreign Minister Andrzej Kremer said Wednesday.