Poland’s first and so far only Formula One driver Robert Kubica said Thursday that he still believed he could win this year’s drivers’ world championship.

KIEV, July 31 (Reuters) - UEFA President Michel Platini urged the international community on Thursday to back Ukraine and Poland in organising Euro 2012 despite doubts the ex-communist states, especially Ukraine, are able to do so.

Poland’s Lech Walesa testified on Wednesday against his old rival General Wojciech Jaruzelski in a long-delayed hearing into a bloody communist crackdown on civilian protesters nearly 40 years ago.

The many sites of Wroclaw– including the market square, the “Panorama of Raclawice,” the Ostrow Tumski and the Hall of the People - chronicle the complex upheavals that helped forge modern Poland.

Poland Keeps Rates Unchanged At 6% As Expected

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FX Energy, Inc. has reported a successful drill stem test (DST) of the Company’s Kromolice-1 well. Located in West Central Poland, this exploratory well flowed gas with no water in this first DST. The nearest existing gas discovery is the Company’s Sroda-4 well some 5 kilometers to the southeast.

Poland has been presented as a neoliberal success story in eastern Europe. And against the background of recession and near recession in several European Union (EU) countries, Polish economic growth looks quite healthy – it is currently 6.4 percent.

Dunedin’s Taryn McLeod celebrated her most significant international result when she finished seventh in the latest round of the European Cup triathlon in Poland yesterday.

Days after information was revealed that linked one of Poland’s greatest icons with the former communist secret police, a high-profile member of the country’s business community also came under suspicion.