NEWS FROM POLAND

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski is participating in the 48th Munich Security Conference on 3-5 February 2012. During the conference Minister Sikorski will take part in a panel discussion devoted to the role of Germany in Europe and around the world. more »

Swedish duo will perform in Poland this summer. Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson will give a concert at Gdansk Ergo Arena on July 24. more »

All that matters about economy, often forgotten, is improvement in societies' living standards, said President Bronislaw Komorowski while opening a conference on "Challenges for social economy" in Warsaw on Wednesday.  more »

Wislawa Szymborska, Poland's 1996 Nobel Prize-winning poet, died at her home in Krakow on Wednesday evening at the age of 88. more »

"Poland’s maximum objective was to make sure that all meetings can be attended by Poland and other countries from outside the euro zone" – said Prime Minister Tusk after the Monday’s European Council summit that ended with a compromise agreement concerning the fiscal pact. more »

"Poland is not going to accept the fiscal pact if it threatens shared decision-making within the EU" – said Prime Minister Donald Tusk prior to the European Council summit devoted, inter alia, to the fiscal pact. The pact is aimed at strengthening the financial discipline in European Union Member States. more »

The star among the producers, singer and instrumentalist Raphael Saadiq will perform on February 28 at the Warsaw Congress Hall. more »

On 31 January 2012, in the headquarters of the Permanent Secretariat of the Community of Democracies in Warsaw, Minister Radosław Sikorski presented the Bene Merito distinction to Prof. João Carlos Espada. Since 2009, the Bene Merito honorary distinction has been bestowed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs to Polish and foreign citizens whose activities enhance Poland's position in the international arena. more »