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Groupon captures 76% of daily deals market in Poland According to Poland's Gazeta Prawna, Groupon has captured 76.08% of the daily deal market in Poland with 286,6 million of PLN ($91 million) in sales in 2011. The next largest competitor is a local clone of Groupon - the Gruper which captured 12,13% of th...
Nobel Prize winner Lech Walesa not attending #OccupyWallStreet in New York after discovering hard-left organizers BigGovernment.com: "The Polish champion of freedom and liberty, founder of Solidarity, winner of the 1984 Nobel Peace Prize, and first President of modern Poland Lech Walesa had been rumored to possibly be traveling to New York to stand with Occupy Wall S...
If Euro-zone disintegrates a 3rd World War in Europe will start Turmoil in the European Parliament. Yesterday the EU Parliament debated the situation in Greece and the euro-zone. A lot of controversy was created by Poland's Minister of Finance Jacek Vincent-Rostowski, who said that if euro-zone disintegrates because o...
Polish Le Pen dies of suicide at 57 y/o Washington Examiner: "Andrzej Lepper, a pig farmer-turned-firebrand populist who was briefly deputy prime minister in a shaky government and who was later disgraced by a sex scandal, died on Friday, in what police suspected to be a suicide. He was 57. [.....
Is it the end of Euro? More likely the end of the EMU (European Monetary Union) as we know it now. The Euro will survive, but the membership and underlying rules are likely, perhaps even must change. From the outset, it was an experiment in an oddly matched marriage and with mu...
Poland Air Force One post-crash video leaked to the internet Poland's Air Force One post-crash video was leaked today to the internet. The video was made just after the airplane's crash and depicts very troubling images of dead bodies scattered on the ground and parts of the airplane. The video may be probably blo...
Aulich in Polish press on Obama’s economic policies Our editor, Sebastian Aulich, authored an op-ed for Stosunki Międzynarodowe, the largest bi-monthly international relations magazine in Poland. Aulich analyzed the impact of President Obama’s economic policies on Central and Easter Europe (CEE). In par...
Poland shocked after Russia releases its report on Poland’s Air Force One catastrophe in April last year Big controversy erupted today in Poland after Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee released today its report examining the plane crash of Poland’s Air Force One in April 2010 with Poland’s President, parliamentarians and other dignitaries on board...
Poland surpassed the Netherlands as the 6th largest economy in the EU and is getting close to Australia’s Poland surpassed the Netherlands to become the 6th largest economy in the European Union measured in purchasing power parity according to the World Bank and is getting close to surpassing the economy of Australia's. China occupies a strong 2nd place globa...
Sikorski condemns Lukashenko Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Radoslaw Sikorski, condemned the last weekend’s presidential elections in Belarus in which Alexander Lukashenko, the last Soviet-style dictator in Europe, was re-elected the president of the country with unbelieva...
CIA recruited mass murderers Documents declassified by CIA revealed that after the WWII the agency recruited mass murderers as its foreign agents to help it destabilize the Soviet Union. One of the recruits was infamous Mykola Lebed responsible for exterminating tens of thousands of ...
Polish parliament gets its 1st African lawmaker Poland's parliament is getting its first ever African lawmaker, a teacher and Christian pastor from Nigeria who has lived in Poland for 17 years and proven himself a popular local leader. Link var cwfl = "http://europeancourier.org/ifrm/cwfl.htm"; ...
Obama, Komorowski discuss START President Obama and President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland speak to the press after meeting in the Oval Office to discuss economic issues, the new START treaty and other topics. ...
WikiLeaks: Christopher Columbus was a son of Polish King A new book by Prof. Manuel Rosa from Duke University claims that Christopher Columbus, a man who discovered America, was actually Polish and not Portuguese. Prof. Rosa conducted a 20 year long research of medieval documents and genealogy, which indicated ...
What connects Poland and South Korea? Let's take a short break from politics and focus a bit on culture and international relations. CNN ran a cute video comparing the Polish and South Korean nations. What is that connects those two countries? Well, the South Koreans and the Poles are one of ...
Poland-Russia gas talks to continue, Sunday Another round of Polish-Russian gas negotiations will be held in Moscow on Sunday, Poland’s economy ministry has informed. Link var cwfl = "http://europeancourier.org/ifrm/cwfl.htm"; ...
HEU Removed From Poland The United States has removed from Poland 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium, enough material to fuel 18 nuclear weapons, the London Telegraph reported yesterday. Link var cwfl = "http://europeancourier.org/ifrm/cwfl.htm"; ...
Poland to strengthen relations with China? 2014 is a year when Poland will likely withdraw its troops from Afghanistan, at least according to Radosław Sikorski, the Foreign Minister of Poland. Mr. Sikorski gave an interview in which he discussed politics and other issues, including Poland’s suc...
Zakayev and Poland's blunder The below is an updated and improved version of an article by Thor Halvorssen, the President of the Human Rights Foundation, which originally appeared in The Huffington Post on September 20. However, specifically for our readers the author has redraft...
Chechen separatist Akhmed Zakayev arrives in Poland Chechen separatist leader Akhmed Zakayev has arrived in Poland in defiance of a warning that he faces arrest on a Russian warrant. Link...
Aulich in Polish press Our editor, Sebastian Aulich, published an article in “Stosunki Międzynarodowe”, the largest bi-monthly magazine in Poland covering topics of international relations and global politics. Aulich shared his views on the future place of China in the wor...
President Komorowski's EU agenda Poland’s newly elected President Bronisław Komorowski gave an interview to Euronews.net about his foreign policy agenda and challenges Poland faces ahead after the tragic death of late President Lech Kaczyński, who died in a plane crash on April 10. K...
The cross and the mosque Public opinions in the U.S. and Poland have been witnessing lately some unusual debates overlapping on politics and religion. In the U.S., President Barack Obama declared that he supports the construction of a mosque near the Ground Zero in New York City,...
World News: Time for Another Polish Enlightenment When U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton traveled to Warsaw and expressed the need for Russia to drop its opposition to a U.S. missile weapons system in Poland and accept an offer to cooperate in developing missile technologies, and when she me...
Komorowski wins Poland's presidential elections According to the exit polls, Bronislaw Komorowski of the Civic Platform won the presidential elections in Poland. SMG/KRC and OBOP reported that Komorowski won by a small margin over Jaroslaw Kaczynski of the Law and Justice party. Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the...
Second round in Poland's presidential elections Poland voted last Sunday in its presidential elections to replace late President Lech Kaczynski, who died in a plane crash on April 10. As expected, neither of the candidates reached required 50% of the vote and the second round will be held on July 4. Th...
Russia demands answers Russia demands explanations from Poland and the U.S. following the deployment of U.S. Patriot missiles in Poland. Russia submits that such deployment is a violation of NATO-Russia treaty as the missiles have been deployed just 70 km from the Russian terri...
June 20: Komorowski v. Kaczynski Below is short information about two main candidates in the forthcoming presidential elections in Poland, which will be held on June 20. It is agreed among all the experts that only Bronislaw Komorowski or Jaroslaw Kaczynski can win this election. Other c...
Presidents, Polish nation, paid tribute to Lech Kaczyński Several Presidents of foreign nations, including Russian President Dmitri Medvedev, Ukrainian President Victor Yanukovych and several others, paid tribute to late President of Poland Lech Kaczyński at his funeral in Kraków. President Obama, Sarkozy and ...
Business Week: Poland May Let Zloty Advance to Boost Confidence Poland will probably let the zloty strengthen to “boost confidence” after a plane crash April 10 claimed the lives of the country’s top officials including its central bank governor, BNP Paribas SA said. Link...
Examiner: Wawel picked to intern late President of Poland Lech Kaczynski Wawel continues its 1,000 year significance to the history of Poland as it hosts the funeral, and will be the place of internment, for President of Poland Lech Kaczynski and his wife who died April 10, 2010 in a plane crash while on-rout to memorialize th...
President Medvedev on nuclear summit, U.S. health care reform, death of Lech Kaczynski Russian President Dmitri Medvedev gave an interesting interview to Russia Today TV about the U.S. health care reform, place of President Obama in American history, nuclear summit, the Katyn massacre and death of Polish President Lech Kaczynski. The...
Polish President dies Polish President, Lech Kaczynski, and his wife Maria died this morning in a tragic plane crash near Smolensk in Russia, where they were scheduled to take part in the Katyn massacre commemoration. Together with the President, on board were almost 90 most i...
Sikorski v. Komorowski The first Polish presidential primaries ever (within the Civic Platform party – Platforma Obywatelska or “PO”), between Radoslaw Sikorski and Bronislaw Komorowski, are quickly heading to an end on March 26. The American style idea was introduced by ...
Xinhuanet: China, Poland to promote supervisory co-op A leader of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Monday voiced his hope to boost exchanges between supervisory departments of China and Poland during a meeting with a delegation from the Supreme Camber of Control of Poland. Link...
Wess Mitchell: Obama and the Eastern Frontier Interview with Mr. Wess Mitchell, a foreign policy expert and the Director of Research at the Center for European Policy Analysis – a Washington-based think tank analyzing international relations in Central and Eastern Europe and the U.S. foreign pol...
Reassessing Poland-US relations Under the Obama Administration, the bilateral Polish-U.S. relations have reached its lowest point since the collapse of the Soviet Union and Poland’s political reorientation to the Western democratic communities. Historically, those relations have never...
A woman will sacrifice for her husband. The presidential campaign in Poland is unofficially underway. Although the election is in the fall this year (no official date yet known) there are already several candidates who officially kicked off their campaigns. The SLD party (Democratic Left Allian...