Provides the latest RSS feeds for Poland News. For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Europe Sun.com http://www.europesun.com/index.php/cat/ab2402315313d795/ en-us Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:10 -0400 Wed, 22 May 2013 09:29:10 -0400 30 China is likely to make a substantive move this year toward initiating an anti-dumping investigation into wine imported from the eurozone, according to Xinhua . Chinese wine producers have been squeezed by stiff competition from their strong overseas counterparts and a persistent slump in their domestic market. The China Security Journal has reported the government may take a further step in ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680691/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:40:01 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680691/scat/ab2402315313d795 WARSAW, Poland - Doctors in Poland say they have performed an urgent total face transplant on a 33-year-old man whose face was torn off in an accident which also crushed his jaws. Doctors at the Oncology Center in Gliwice said the 27-hour operation was performed May 15, just weeks after the accident. The head of the team of doctors, Adam Maciejewski, said it was the world's first ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214687318/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:45:26 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214687318/scat/ab2402315313d795 PKO BP (PKO.WA), Poland's top lender by assets, issued 500 million zlotys ($154 million) of six-month corporate bonds at a 2.77% yield, the bank said Wednesday.The issue is part of the bank's PLN5 billion bond-issue program dating back to 2011 that is aimed at diversifying the bank's financing sources.So far the bank issued three-month paper in 2011 and 2012.Write to Patryk ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214686658/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 07:37:24 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214686658/scat/ab2402315313d795 Polish banks and pension funds are keeping borrowing costs elevated for companies by holding their debt to maturity and stifling the development of the corporate bond ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684080/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:22:45 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684080/scat/ab2402315313d795 Financial Services group Provident Polska has signed an agreement with LeasePlan Fleet Management to lease out 80 hybrid Toyota Yaris models. The deal is the biggest of its kind in the Polish market, according to LeasePlan. "So far, clients leased single hybrid cars for promotional uses," Artur Sulewski, sales director at LeasePlan, told WBJ. "It's hard to convince them to ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684082/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:31 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684082/scat/ab2402315313d795 The Ministry of Finance is making the assumption that Poland's minimum wage will grow slightly in 2014, Deputy Finance Minister Janusz ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684081/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:31 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684081/scat/ab2402315313d795 The Polish government has completed work on a set of amendments to the Labor Code designed to make employment rules more flexible. It is seen as a crisis-battling measure. According to the draft, businesses would be able to pay their employees a lower salary in periods when production is stopped due to a lack of demand. Companies would also be able to change working hours to adjust to production ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684083/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 04:08:30 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214684083/scat/ab2402315313d795 Europe’s plan to decarbonise its economy by 2050 could be turned on its head at a summit today (22 May) if EU heads of state and government sign off on measures prioritising industrial competitiveness over climate change in draft conclusions seen by ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214682071/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 02:08:41 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214682071/scat/ab2402315313d795 A new mother is facing criminal charges including possible jail time after her baby was born drunk. UK’s The Mirror reports that a 24-year-old new mother had a baby born drunk after she collapsed during an apparent binge drinking marathon very late in her pregnancy. It gets better. She had passed out drunk at an off-license in Tomaszow, Poland, while she was trying to buy more booze. ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214681064/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:22:37 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214681064/scat/ab2402315313d795 BY STEVEN ALEXANDER - 22 May 2013 Forty jobs at a Co Antrim cigarette manufacturer are set to be relocated abroad, an MP has ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680820/scat/ab2402315313d795 Wed, 22 May 2013 01:06:44 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680820/scat/ab2402315313d795 South Bend Riley's Ayinna Gaines set a Regional record in the 400, Clay's Michelle Adeniyi won three championships and Mishawaka's Anna Rohrer cruised in the 2-mile to highlight the events at the Girls Track Regionals Tuesday at Warsaw. The host Tigers overcame a number of injuries to hold off Mishawaka to win the team competition by three points. Gaines, a junior at Riley, ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680019/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:51:16 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680019/scat/ab2402315313d795 An agreement whereby Poland will be Mechanic Falls' primary provider for ambulance protection services from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. passed on a 4-1 vote, with Selectman Janice Kimball opposed. Kimball said she was not opposed to the idea of Poland providing the protection, but felt that Mechanic Falls should come up with some upfront money. Poland fire and rescue Chief Mark Bosse said that, based ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680020/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 23:51:09 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214680020/scat/ab2402315313d795 they’re launching an investigation into the rigging of oil prices. It’s long been known that much of what drives the price of oil, and therefore gasoline, food, and other products, is not the free market, but rather, the biggest players in the oil market, and yet this has largely gone untouched while people throw blame here, there and everywhere for the high price of gasoline. The ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214678676/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 22:47:08 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214678676/scat/ab2402315313d795 Boruch Spiegel, who died May 9 at 93, was one of the last survivors of the 1943 Warsaw ghetto uprising by poorly armed Jewish insurgents against the powerful Nazi German force that occupied ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214678075/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 21:31:33 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214678075/scat/ab2402315313d795 The gentrification of rundown city neighbourhoods in a matter of anxiety and outrage worldwide as well as in Vancouver. But in Berlin what started as a joke about yuppie newcomers has developed into a bitter campaign with neo-Nazi ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214676941/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 20:23:46 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214676941/scat/ab2402315313d795 This picture taken soon before the outbreak of World War II in 1939 shows Boruch Spiegel, one of the last surviving insurgents of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Spiegel died in Montreal on May 9 at age 93. (AP ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674485/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:52 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674485/scat/ab2402315313d795 One of the oldest salt mines in Europe, Poland's Wieliczka, on Tuesday called for photos of salt from across the globe for a contest and show at its underground museum. "We thought it would be good to learn about the rest of the world's salt and compile a portrait of it," museum spokeswoman Malgorzata Bogucka told AFP. She said submissions should focus on how NaCl is made, ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674486/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 18:02:42 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674486/scat/ab2402315313d795 Hezbollah 's military sector a terrorist organization. The request, which is scheduled to be informally discussed at an EU meeting in Brussels Wednesday, and officially taken up on June 4, could open the way for sanctions to curtail Hezbollah activity in Europe if successful, the British newspaper The Financial Times reported Tuesday. Motivated by an investigation that blamed Hezbollah for ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674363/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 17:43:38 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214674363/scat/ab2402315313d795 WARSAW (AFP) - Muslim religious leaders from across the globe met with Holocaust survivors and their saviours in an emotional encounter Tuesday at Warsaw's synagogue, as part of an anti-genocide programme that includes a visit to Auschwitz."Today, we've met real people who suffered the Holocaust and the heroes that saved them at the risk of losing their lives," a visibly moved ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214671658/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 16:49:40 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214671658/scat/ab2402315313d795 Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction Glenda Ritz on Tuesday announced 2013 Technology Resource Grants awards.Northeast Indiana recipients include Anthis Career Center, $15,000, and Warsaw Area Career Center, $14,999.These grants will help buy technology resources for student instruction in career and technical education classrooms, the announcement ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214666238/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:18:57 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214666238/scat/ab2402315313d795 WARSAW | Tue May 21, 2013 1:12pm EDT WARSAW May 21 (Reuters) - Polish pension fund ING OFE, which owns 5 percent stake in the country's top refiner PKN , on Tuesday proposed a dividend payout of 3 zlotys ($0.92) per share or 1.3 billion zlotys from 2012 profits, PKN said in a statement on Tuesday. State-controlled PKN said in March it could pay a dividend of 1.5 zlotys per ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214668359/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:12:22 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214668359/scat/ab2402315313d795 By Patryk Wasilewski WARSAW--The Polish government's European Union policy will focus on issues related to increasing the stability and security of institutions that Poland will join in the future, now that the bloc's 2014-2020 budget has essentially been agreed, Poland's deputy foreign affairs minister, Piotr Serafin, told The Wall Street Journal in an interview. Under the ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214666239/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 13:03:36 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214666239/scat/ab2402315313d795 LONDON (AFP) - Low-cost European airline Ryanair is looking at introducing flights between Israel and Poland to cater for Israeli schoolchildren visiting the former Nazi death camp at Auschwitz."It seems that every Israeli child has to go to Poland to go and see Auschwitz. We can help them with that," said the carrier's deputy chief executive, Howard Millar.Although Ryanair is ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214663911/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 12:17:03 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214663911/scat/ab2402315313d795 By Marcin Goettig WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland has turned its back on policies that once made it Europe's growth leader and is flirting with the recession that it alone among its emerging European Union peers has evaded through years of crisis. It weathered the global turmoil after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 thanks to its 38-million-strong consumer market and a surge in ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664129/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:54:59 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664129/scat/ab2402315313d795 By Sarah Young LONDON, May 21 (Reuters) - Poland-focused shale explorer San Leon Energy believes results from its wells this summer could help dispel the gloom around the country's shale resources after a number of major players quit the sector. Two years ago there was feverish interest in the huge volumes of gas believed to be trapped in Poland's rocks with the Polish government ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664130/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:54:55 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664130/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland's industrial output grew by 2.7 percent year-on-year in April, statistics office GUS said. In month-on-month terms, output fell by 2.3 percent. Seasonally adjusted industrial production fell by 0.3 percent y/y and rose 0.8 percent m/m. Analysts surveyed by the Polish Press Agency (PAP) expected industrial production to increase 2.6 percent y/y and fall 2.5 percent m/m. In March, ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664131/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:37:35 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664131/scat/ab2402315313d795 Doctors from the Cancer Center and Institute of Oncology in Gliwice have successfully carried out the first full facial transplant in Poland. The surgery was performed on May 15 by a team led by professor Adam Maciejewski. The patient is said to be in serious but stable condition. The patient was a 33-year-old man who had suffered an accident at work. He had previously undergone an unsuccessful ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664132/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 10:37:34 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214664132/scat/ab2402315313d795 industrial output rose for the first time in three months in April as an extra working day helped boost production. Output advanced 2.7 percent from a year earlier after dropping 2.9 percent in March, ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662583/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:40 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662583/scat/ab2402315313d795 By Patryk Wasilewski and Marcin Sobczyk WARSAW--Poland's industrial output grew 2.7% in April from a year earlier, returning to growth after a contraction in March, with export-oriented industries reporting higher production. However, the increase was lower than expected as analysts polled by Dow Jones Newswires had forecast growth of 3.2% in April. Output in April fell 2.3% from ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662585/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:37 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662585/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland's industrial production grew less-than-expected in April, data released by the Central Statistical Office showed Tuesday. Industrial production rose 2.7 percent year-on-year, while economists had expected 3 percent growth. Manufacturing output increased 2.9 percent, while production in the mining and quarrying sector was 7.7 percent higher. Output declined 0.8 percent in the ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662584/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:39:37 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662584/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland's Treasury Ministry is talking to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development on a possible investment in Polskie Inwestycje Rozwojowe (PIR), the SPV set up to manage the state-funded Polish Investments ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662586/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:16 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662586/scat/ab2402315313d795 Two new political opinion polls put the Prime Minister Donald Tusk's Civic Platform (PO) party behind Poland's largest opposition party, the conservative Law and Justice (PiS). The polls come ahead of an expected government cabinet reshuffle this summer, but still two years before regularly scheduled parliamentary elections in 2015. In a poll published by CBOS on Friday, PiS topped PO ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662587/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 09:22:15 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214662587/scat/ab2402315313d795 ) reported that the Tuchola-3K well flowed gas at rates ranging from 3.8 to 5.5 million cubic feet of gas per day with no water during a production test.  The Company plans to collect the final data from the downhole pressure gauges and finish completing the well for production. "The Tuchola-3K test raises the real possibility of opening a significant new exploration play for us ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214660857/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:46:58 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214660857/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland's production of chocolate confectionery grew by 6.5 percent year-on-year in the first quarter of 2013. The biggest reason for the growth is exports, which account for some 70 percent of Poland's chocolate confectionery sales. In 2012, exports stood at ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214661219/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 08:28:08 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214661219/scat/ab2402315313d795 As at the end of March 2013, Poland's total debt was 1.3 percent higher than in the previous month and stood at ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657954/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 05:03:50 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657954/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland's Office of Competition and Consumer Protection (UOKiK) approved the takeover of all the assets of vodka producer CEDC by Roust Trading, a company owned by Russian businessman Rustam Tariko. CEDC is one of the largest vodka producers in the world. The company is currently in a bankruptcy restructuring process. According to the plan, Roust will become CEDC's sole owner. CEDC, ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657955/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:49:52 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657955/scat/ab2402315313d795 Beverly Hills Video (BHV), the best-known Polish movie rental network, closed down operations on Sunday. The company closed its outlets and published a statement on its website thanking customers for 16 years of business. BHV did not disclose its reasons for the decision but it comes at a difficult time for conventional movie distribution. Companies active in the segment have tried to convince ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657956/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 04:49:52 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214657956/scat/ab2402315313d795 Poland 's shale gas boom is threatened even before it gets started after some wells failed and the government sought to increase taxes on profits. Of 39 wells planned for 2013, just two were drilled by ... http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214656957/scat/ab2402315313d795 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:57:48 -0400 http://www.europesun.com/index.php/sid/214656957/scat/ab2402315313d795