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‘Are you pleased to see me, or is that amber in your underpants?’ 08.07.2010 Customs officers at Poland’s eastern border have detained a Russian man trying to smuggle in three kilogrammes of amber stuffed down his underpants.
Poles drinking more than ever, as incomes rise 08.07.2010 Poles on average take their first alcoholic drink at 12 years old and, despite anti-drinking laws, are consuming more alcohol than ever before.
Cops sniff out teenage dog-nappers 08.07.2010 Police in Łódź, central Poland, have recovered a number of pedigree dogs, allegedly stolen by two boys aged 11 and 14.
Security concerns if president-elect shuns presidential palace 08.07.2010 President-elect Bronislaw Komorowski has indicated that he prefers to stay in his own flat rather than move into the Presidential Palace in Warsaw, leaving the security services with a bit of a headache.
JP II election Poland’s proudest moment 08.07.2010 Thirty three percent of Poles single out the election of Karol Wojtyła as Pope in 1978 as the number one event of which the nation should be most proud, according to a new survey.
Warsaw court rules 'Mossad agent' be extradited to Germany 07.07.2010 A Warsaw court decided today to extradite Uri Brodsky, suspected of being involved in the Dubai hotel assassination, to Germany, though a full written ruling will be given next week.
Time maverick was thrown out of party, says MEP 07.07.2010 Following maverick Civic Platform MP Janusz Palikot wondering publicly whether the late president Lech Kaczynski was sober when he stepped on board the doomed TU 154 which crashed in Smolensk, an MEP has called for his dismissal from the party.
Coalition ‘stable’ says government spokesman 07.07.2010 A meeting, Tuesday, between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Deputy PM Waldemar Pawlak “confirmed the stability” of the ruling coalition, said a spokesman, following signs of growing tension within the Civic Platform/Polish Peasant’s Party government.
Komorowski promises to be president ‘for the whole nation’ 06.07.2010 Bronislaw Komorowski has resigned his membership of Civic Platform, so he can become a president not just of a party but “for the whole nation”.
Police stub out illegal cigarette factories 06.07.2010 Twenty-two tones of tobacco with a million counterfeit cigarettes have been seized and twenty people detained in a joint raid by police from the western city of Szczecin and the central city of Lodz.
Poles becoming more tolerant? 06.07.2010 Though opinion pollsters record an increase in tolerance towards same-sex relationships over the last few years, still half of Poles think that gays and lesbians should not be open about their sexuality.
Battle over public media financing continues in parliament 06.07.2010 A meeting of the Parliamentary Committee on Culture and Media is underway this morning, debating the draft law on funding public media, as put forward by the ruling Civic Platform party.
Tusk ally nominated as Parliamentary Speaker 06.07.2010 The governing board of Civic Platform has recommended its parliamentary party leader, Grzegorz Schetyna, to become Speaker of the Sejm lower parliamentary house after the position becomes vacant by Bronislaw Komorowski, now president-elect.
President-elect receives official victory certificate 06.07.2010 Bronislaw Komorowski received a resolution from the National Electoral Commission at noon today, confirming his victory in Poland’s presidential elections.
Poland’s president elect wins landslide…in the prisons! 05.07.2010 The National Electoral Commission announced, Monday, that Bronislaw Komorowski won the votes of nine out of ten convicts in Poland’s prisons and detention centres in the presidential elections on July 4.
Official – Komorowski wins Poland’s presidential election 05.07.2010 The National Election Commission announced Monday afternoon that with all votes counted nationwide, Bronislaw Komorowski becomes Poland’s fourth elected president since the fall of communism with victory in the second round of election held Sunday.

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