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- Food giants cash in on a taste of Poland
- Sour mood emerges after EU’s summit
- Russia seeing red as Soviet history snubbed.
- This Summer It’s Rock Around the Bloc
- Sarkozy stakes his claim as power broker
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Poland’s new Jewish museum to mark community’s thousand-year…
International Herald Tribune – Jun 24, 2007
3 million or 10 percent of the total population. The society produced a vibrant Yiddish-speaking culture and a string of great scientists writers and thinkers. Poland is also where Nazi Germany built Auschwitz Treblinka and the other extermination camps where 6 million Jews — half of them Polish — were killed. Yet Jewish history and suffering were taboo themes for decades under communist rule which collapsed in 1989. nly about 30000 Jews live in Poland today. Museum creators say the project will chronicle the fate of Jews in their Eastern European homeland with interactive and multimedia displays and video — not just traditional artifacts and exhibits — in order to give visitors a deeper sense of what was lost. Plans for example include reconstructing the painted ceiling of an 18th century wooden synagogue almost to its original size.
Food giants cash in on a taste of Poland
guardian.co.uk – Jun 24, 2007
An estimated 750000 Poles – 2 per cent of the total Polish population – now live in Britain and the market opportunity afforded by the Polish pound (actually the zloty) is not going unnoticed. The Centre for Economics and Business Research believes the average Polish migrant worker has a disposable income of between £6000 and £7000 a year. Now Nestle is going head to head with its arch-rival Heinz by bringing Winiary its Knorr-style Polish food brand to the UK. The brand is a household name in Poland generating sales of around £100m and Nestle is to launch the bestselling product lines including the white and red borsch-flavoured packet soup stock cubes and favourite pudding kisiel o smaku truskawkowym a soft strawberry jelly.
Sour mood emerges after EU’s summit
International Herald Tribune – Jun 24, 2007
After hours of intense negotiations in Brussels Poland dropped its insistence Saturday that it should be given more votes at the expense of Germany. In return the new voting system will be postponed until 2017. President Lech Kaczynski who led the Polish delegation in Brussels said he was pleased with the outcome. Poland he added was ready to cooperate with the EU. Rarely one to praise any leader he singled out France Germany and Britain for achieving the compromise… Poland he added was ready to cooperate with the EU. Rarely one to praise any leader he singled out France Germany and Britain for achieving the compromise. From now on Kaczynski said “if solidarity will be required from Poland we will show it. ” But European commentators particularly German fear that the president's twin brother Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski who is regarded as the tougher of the twins could reopen the issue of the summit agreement at an intergovernmental conference scheduled for the end of this year to draft the text of the new EU treaty. Bild the influential mass-circulation newspaper and staunch Merkel supporter said Sunday that it would have been better if the summit talks had failed. “That would have prevented the creation of a Europe of two speeds and two classes. The sickening double game played by the Polish brothers Kaczynski should make it clear to any fan of Europe that this was not inevitable.
Russia seeing red as Soviet history snubbed.
Free with registration – Chicago Tribune – AccessMyLibrary.com – Jun 24, 2007
–>CPYRIGHT 2007 Chicago Tribune Byline: Tom Hundley Jun. 24–WARSAW — n balmy summer days sunbathers and skateboarders are the only visitors to this quiet corner of Warsaw’s vast Pole Mokotowskie park the final resting place for 21468 soldiers of the Soviet army who according to the bronze inscription “died for the liberation of Poland in the fight against the Nazi oppressors. ” To these young Poles with no real memory of the Soviet and Russian troops who stayed until 1993 it’s all ancient history. To their parents and grandparents it’s quite another matter. Just as the memories of World War II and the Cold War begin to recede a new and bitter conflict over how to remember those events has erupted between the Russian government of Vladimir Putin and the former Soviet satellites. Each side accuses the other of rewriting.
This Summer It’s Rock Around the Bloc
New York Times – Jun 24, 2007
there’s a great sense of optimism there. Whoever’s on whatever D… ’s playing if it’s good music they love it. “Above & Beyond will have to wait until July 7 to feel the love at Creamfields Poland in Wroclaw where they will perform with the Prodigy Vitalic and a slew of other dance and electronic acts. But this week Poland kicks off its festival season on June 29 with pen’er a three-day party featuring noise-rockers Sonic Youth neo new-wavers Bloc Party and two sets (one instrumental) from the Beastie Boys all happening at the Baltic Sea port of Gdynia. Electronic or rock are hardly the only options: ther concerts around the region this summer include folk funk punk and a whole lot of world music in short pretty much everything. I attended my first post-Velvet Revolution music festival in 2005 paying the last-minute equivalent of $20 for a ticket to a concert series in pastoral southern Bohemia about 90 minutes from.
Sarkozy stakes his claim as power broker
International Herald Tribune – Jun 24, 2007
After a string of diplomatic successes this was to be a more difficult summit meeting for the German chancellor Angela Merkel mainly for reasons of history. Poland's refusal to accept a proposed voting system based on population size was prompted by fears that this measure would increase the power of Germany. Before the summit meeting the nationalist twin brothers who lead Poland offended a European taboo by referring to World War II and arguing that it had decimated the Polish population. “History is history; it is fact that had there not been the war Poland would not have 38 million people but many more” Lech Kaczynski said. Faced with such a difficult dialogue Merkel dealt with the British first offering Blair an opt-out from a charter on citizens' rights and special protection to protect Britain from being out-voted on justice and home affairs matters. “We got an amazing deal” said one British official “because the Germans got so transfixed by the Poles. ” Still Merkel was getting nowhere with Lech Kaczynski so she raised the stakes threatening to go ahead with treaty negotiations despite Polish objections… Poland's refusal to accept a proposed voting system based on population size was prompted by fears that this measure would increase the power of Germany. Before the summit meeting the nationalist twin brothers who lead Poland offended a European taboo by referring to World War II and arguing that it had decimated the Polish population. “History is history; it is fact that had there not been the war Poland would not have 38 million people but many more” Lech Kaczynski said. Faced with such a difficult dialogue Merkel dealt with the British first offering Blair an opt-out from a charter on citizens' rights and special protection to protect Britain from being out-voted on justice and home affairs matters. “We got an amazing deal” said one British official “because the Germans got so transfixed by the Poles. ” Still Merkel was getting nowhere with Lech Kaczynski so she raised the stakes threatening to go ahead with treaty negotiations despite Polish objections. The gamble nearly brought the negotiation to complete collapse.
World Rowing – fficial Website – News
WorldRowing.com – Jun 24, 2007
Estonia got the better of Norway to take second. Belarus from first earn one Rowing World Cup point for their country. Men’s double sculls (M2x) – B FinalCzech Republic’s Vaclav Chalupa was a no show leaving Poland to grab hold of the lead for the first half of the race. But it was a very tight four-way battle that in the second half saw Poland fade and Mihal Dzianis and Shcharbachenia Stanislau of Belarus take over. This is where they remained with the United States pulling through to take second over Poland who struggled through in third. Men’s Four (M4-) – B FinalWith Germany1 out due to illness Germany2 did their best to hold the fort. Their best had them racing in the B Final and at the start they sat back in third behind a very fast starting Egypt with Australia also on the pace… Their best had them racing in the B Final and at the start they sat back in third behind a very fast starting Egypt with Australia also on the pace. By half-way Egypt had slipped back and Germany2 had moved into the lead with Australia still holding the pace. Then Poland started to wind up from the very back of the field. It was enough to get the Poles into third. Germany2 take first Australia second and Poland third. Lightweight Women’s Double Sculls (LW2x) – B FinalFormer World Champion in the lightweight single Sinead Jennings of Ireland decided she wanted to go to the lympics. She’s been teamed up with Niamh Ni Cheilleacher for a year now and at the first Rowing World Cup the duo finished a disappointing 12th.
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