Polish Consulate...

From Warsaw Voice...

"On reaching the city limits, the thief was kind enough to stop and let my 87-year-old mother out of the car; he didn't notice her in the back seat."
-A resident of Dziwnowo, Western Pomerania province, on how she had her car stolen when she left it for a minute to go into a store

"If there was a bill introduced that said you should milk a cow's tail, not its tits, this Sejm would pass it."
-Ludwik Dorn, head of the Law and Justice (PiS) caucus, summing up this ending term of parliament

"Like Frankenstein, he lumbers around, drools and has a malicious gleam in his eyes that is a portent of something evil."
-Jerzy Szteliga, a deputy from the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), on Roman Giertych, the leader of the League of Polish Families (LPR)

"On the LPR website, they removed dozens of my statements-just like in the times of pharaohs, when the successor would remove all traces of his predecessor."
-Bogdan Pęk, a European Parliament deputy from the League of Polish Families (LPR), on the fact that he has been deprived of influence on the politics of the party of which he is vice-president

"The Russian society shouldn't forget the positive results of the Soviet system. The country was successful, and socialist standards were in fact very close to the teachings of Jesus Christ."
-Alexy II, the patriarch of Moscow and All-Russia, in a sermon

"The Constitution is not The Bible. If it limits citizen rights, it has to be amended."
-Adam Imadayev, a Russian parliament deputy from Primorski Krai, proposing to introduce an amendment to Russia's constitution permitting for President Vladimir Putin's third term in office

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THE NIGHT AFTER
by Slawomir Majman (Warsaw Voice)

The Poles have chosen.
The Poles have chosen, but it's not clear what they've chosen.
Two parties are the winners in the election-the Civic Platform (PO) and Law and Justice (PiS), each of them an excellent opposition party for the other.

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Social-conservative Law & Justice (PiS) presidential candidate Lech Kaczynski has the backing of 35% of the electorate according to the latest OBOP poll commissioned by the weekly Polityka.

He is closing the gap with the Civic Platform's (PO) Donald Tusk who has 42% backing. Just a week ago, Tusk had support of nearly 50% while Kaczynski was below 30%. It seems the Parliamentary elections which PiS won have given the Kaczynski presidential candidacy new life.

Andrzej Lepper of the populist Self-Defense party (Samoobrona) has 11% support and leftist SdPL candidate Marek Borowski is fourth with
6% support.

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The official final results of Poland’s general election held last Sunday announced this afternoon are as follows: Conservative Law and Justice – headed by the Kaczynski brothers, of whom Lech is the mayor of Warsaw - has won 155 seats inthe 460-seat lower house. It is followed by liberal Civic Platform with 133. If both parties agree to form a coalition they would together have a number of seats short of the 307 two third majority needed to, for example, amend the constitution.
4 more parties exceeded the 5% threshold. These include the farmers’ militant Self defence 56 seats, leftist Democratic Left Alliance – 55 seats in the lower house, league of the Polish families 34 and Peasant party 25 seats.
Turnout amounted to 40.5%.

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Sejm
PiS 26.4% 152, PO 24.23% 133, Samoobrona 11.66% 57, SLD 11.38% 56, LPR 7.89% 33, PSL 6.95% 27

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Monday, 10.00 a.m.: With sixty percent of the votes counted in the Polish General Election the conservative, Law and Justice have 26.6%, followed by the pro-business Civic Platform with 24.1%. The populist farmer’s union, Self Defense has 12.4% and SLD, outgoing ex-communists SLD have 10.9%, says the Electoral Commission.

The percentage of the votes translates to 151 seats in the Polish parliament, the Sejm, with Civic Platform gaining 123, Self Defense with 67, SLD with 51, the far-right League of Polish families with 36 and the PSL peasant’s party with 30.

A coalition between Law and Justice (PiS) and Civic Platform will form the new government, and negotiations will start soon this week. “We have long said that we want this coalition and there are no reasons why this shouldn’t happen,” said Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the favorite to become Poland’s next Prime Minister. kaczynski has indicated, however, that we will only take the job if his twin brother Lech does not win the October 9 presidential elections.

Talks might be difficult, however. The economic policies of the two parties are notably different, with Civic Platform favoring a low flat- tax and Law and Justice less willing to make harsh reforms to the labor code and tackle Poland’s ballooning budget deficit.

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The Sejm (Lower House):-
PiS (Law & Justice) 27.6% - 157
PO (Citizens Platform) 24.7% - 138
SLD (the previously ruling post-communist left) - 52
Samoobrona (Self Defence) 10.5% - 47
LPR (League of Polish Families) 9.5% - 45
PSL (Peasants Party) 5.9% - 19
Reserved for German minority - 2

The major potential variable lies in the PSL showing. If they actually perform slightly worse than Exit Polls show and poll under 5% they could be eliminated from representation - leading to more seats for the other parties.

PiS performed best in the South East. PO performed best on the North West Baltic coast (including Gdansk).

The SLD showing although disastrous was not as bad as expected as their hard core supporters turned out despite the fact that overall turnout was well below predicted at 40.4%.

Speculation on the impact of the Parliamentary Election on the October Presidential Elections is varied. One viewpoint suggests that Parliamentary results will boost PiS morale, activity and support while denting PO morale, activity and support. The contrary view is that having given PiS the lead in Parliament Poles will not want to give them the Presidency as well and this will sustain or increase PO lead in the Presidential race.

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For those who aren't yet in on the secret what about Skype?

It is a simple download which only takes a few seconds. The instructions are dead simple. All you need to then add is a microphone or headphones / microphone. Mine cost me a massive GBP 6.99.

If you want to you can then register to make phone calls from your computer set up to any conventional phone number anywhere. Of course you'll need to work out how much you'll have to pay and compare it
with your current phone supplier. It looks cheap and I may well pick up on it down the line.

BUT, meanwhile, there are THREE great FREE aspects of Skype!

1. If you are on Broadband and you use Skype to contact another computer with Skype which is also on broadband you can talk for as long as you like for NO further charge. I mean FREE to both of you! Of course the other person needs to be on line when you contact them.

2. The sound is NOT like making a phone call. The sound quality is just like talking face to face in the same room.

3. You can "conference" up to 5 computers in different locations and if they are all already on Broadband nobody pays anything extra.

So, yesterday evening I set up a conference (sounds complex but actually took just 3 seconds!)between me (in my office, upstairs), my wife (downstairs in the living room with her lap top) and my cousin in Warsaw! As we are all on broadband we chatted together for over an hour free of any charge and the sound quality was absolutely brilliant!

Tonight we have arranged to all meet up online at 8.30pm (Polish time) to discuss the Polish elections.

I intend to contact all my Polish and US friends who are on broadband and encoursge them onto Skype.

If you have any queries about Skype post here or contact me directly at oborski@btinternet.com

Mike Oborski
Consul RP

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POLISH ELECTIONS...

On Sunday, Poles will be electing a new parliament. In addition to some thirty million people eligible to vote here, there are around 2.5 million Poles living abroad who can have an influence on the ballot at the weekend. Michal Kubicki reports.

In the United States, where the west coast is nine hours behind Poland and the east coast - six hours - voting will take place Saturday, as it will in Sydney, Australia, eight hours ahead of Polish time.

All in all, Polish officials are expecting a record turnout among Polish voters across the globe, from Afghanistan to the United States, from Iraq to Ireland. The Polish foreign ministry has arranged 162 polling stations in 92 countries.

Polling stations have also been set up in Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, where there are large Polish expatriate communities. Poland's accession to the European Union last year played a key role in boosting the number of Poles abroad eligible to vote.

The Sunday election is the 10th since the collapse of communism in which Poles abroad have been able to vote. According to the Polish electoral law, they vote for candidates in the Warsaw constituency. In the last general elections in 2001, expatriate voters accounted for 12 percent of votes cast in the capital. Among those voting abroad will be former president Lech Wa³esa. He will vote at the Polish embassy in Washington where he will be on an official visit.

Last election polls predict narrow victory for Civic Platform

Just hours before the obligatory election silence Polish media present the last results of election polls. According to the most recent data the winner of the election will be the liberal Civic Platform which should get 32% of the votes or 170 seats in the 460 seats' parliament, Law and Justice should come close second with 30% and 164 seats. The remaining seats will be distributed among the populist peasants' Self Defence – 59 seats, the extreme right wing League of Polish Families with 36 seats and left-wing Social Democratic Alliance with mere 31 seats. Radio Polonia will cover the election in a special election magazine on Sunday evening.

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Several days before parliamentary elections this Sunday, an opinion poll suggests that the rightwing Civic Platform has been overtaken by the conservative Law and Justice. Michal Kubicki reports.

With four days to go before parliamentary elections, the conservative Law and Justice Party has for the first time overtaken the liberal Civic Platform. The latest survey by the OBOP Institute shows that nothing is decided in this campaign until the last vote is counted.

The campaign - in the media and out in the streets - ends at midnight on Friday. It will be at 8 pm on Sunday, with the announcement of the preliminary results, that Poles will be able to see whether the opinion surveys reflected accurately public sentiments.

The final days of the campaign have shown that the conservative Law and Justice has caught up with the liberal Civic Platform which is seen as more pro-European force on the right.

OBOP polsters find that 34% will be voting for Law and Justice, while 32% intend to vote for the Civic Platform – a drop of 2% since.

The movement follows a change in the conservatives' campaign focus from restructuring a corruption-free Poland to calls for a stronger safety net for the poor and to attacks on the centrepiece of the liberal programme - a 15 percent flat tax rate scheme. According to Aleksander Smolar from the Batory Foundation, Civic Platform's liberal agenda is confined to economic issues.

According to the leaders of the conservative Law and Justice, the two parties - both rooted in the Solidarity movement - represent two visions of Poland. Marcin Sobczyk of the Warsaw Independent news service agrees

Although mood swings are still possible, it is clear that the two centre-right parties are heading for a landslide victory - and a coalition government - and that the ruling leftists will be punished by voters for a series of corruption scandals in their ranks. Aleksander Smolar of the Batory Foundation thinks that the recent decision of Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz to withdraw from the presidential race dealt a serious blow to the leftists.

Outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski, himself a leftist, has urged even those frustrated by leftist rule to cast their ballots on Sunday and support leftist groups. This, he said, is a chance for maintaining some political balance.

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While domestic issues dominate the election campaigns for Polish president and parliament, the candidates’ stand on foreign policy might just pick them up a few votes, too.

As the German election results came in on Sunday night, many here – including me - were scratching their heads with disbelief: how can an electorate connive to produce a scenario where no side wins an election? After all, German politics is not supposed to resemble a cricket match.

The commentators tried to explain the possible future coalition options: a ‘traffic light’ coalition between Gerhard Schroeder' sred social democrats, plus Joschka Fischer’s Greens plus the yellow Liberal Democrats; or would it be the red, red, green coalition of the Social Democrats, the Greens and the ex-communist left? Or maybe it would be the worst possible result of a Grand Coalition of leftist red Social Democrats and rightist black Christian Democrats?

A confusing situation for everybody, but just imagine what it must be like to a German who is colorblind?

Before Angela Merkel managed to somehow snatch defeat from the jaws of certain victory, it was expected, and hoped by most in Poland, that her Christian Democrats would be the winners. But the leader of the Christian Democrats has apparently had Personality By-Pass surgery and was no match for the tub-thumping charisma of the incumbent Chancellor, Gerhard Schroeder.

But would foreign policy be any easier between Poland and Germany if she had of held on to her lead in the opinion polls in the run up to polling day?

It is in Poland’s interest – and just about everyone else’s in Europe – to have a dynamic German economy. But sadly, the German economy seems as stodgy at the moment as a Black Forest Gateau.

Chancellor Schroeder’s limited reforms to the inflexible German workforce, and the minefield that is the German tax system, are seen to be too little, too late. Angie Merkel, on the other hand, seemed to be serious about serious reforms.

Poland is all set to vote in a rightwing coalition of their own on September 25, and a similarly right leaning government in Berlin might have made things a lot easier, foreign policy wise.

Poles are also not too happy with the German Chancellor at the moment because of a deal he has done with President Putin – behind Warsaw’s back say Poles – for a gas pipeline to be built connecting Russia with Germany, and by-passing Poland. This country is dependant on Russia for much of its gas supplies. The fear is that Moscow could use the pipeline to divert gas away from Poland in times of diplomatic crisis between Warsaw and Moscow.

And that diplomatic crisis has seemed quite close this year. Arguments over Russia’s refusal to take the blame for atrocities during the Second World War, and their inability to comprehend that Poles do not regard the Soviet occupation of Poland after the war as a ’liberation’, have soured relations considerably.

So issues such as Russian gas could become explosive very quickly. And many Poles blame Chancellor Schroeder for the gas pipeline deal, and think that Poland should have been consulted before anything was agreed.

In retaliation, the parties expected to be in the Sejm, the Polish parliament, after the election here this Sunday, have said that they will not be backing Germany’s bid to get a permanent seat on the UN Security Council.

But if Merkel does emerge after the long and tortuous negotiations currently going on in the German capital, then she will not be given an unconditionally warm reception in Warsaw either.

After the end of WWII, millions of ethnic Germans were forced to leave Silesia in the southwest and Pomeraria in the north of Poland, and other regions in eastern Europe. These Germans, it was argued, supported the Nazis during the war, and, as a result, eight million of them ended up in Germany and about half a million in Austria.

Since Poland joined the EU last May, Merkel’s Christian Democrats have been leading a campaign to put pressure on Poland to apologize to the expelled Germans and offer them some compensation. There has even been some talk among German conservatives over the years for a renegotiation of the borders between Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic.

It goes without saying that this has not gone down at all well in Poland, a country that sees itself as a victim of Nazi aggression, and a nation that has got nothing to apologize to Germany for at all.

So scraps between Germany and Poland seem to be a dead cert whichever parties emerge from what one commentator has called the German party political promiscuous gangbang that is currently going on at the moment in Berlin.

But Polish politician’s attitude to Germany might just be a bit of an election pose – see how all the acrimony might just fly out the window as Poland tries to get German support for 80 billion euros worth of subsidies from the EU in the 2008 – 2013 budget, presently in negotiation.

One thing you can be sure of though: the result of the Polish election will not be as obscure as German one was last Sunday. We are sure of a government, probably between the right-wingers Civic Platform and the Law and Justice party.

And don’t worry – this will not be a red, red green collation, or a traffic light collation, or even a chameleon coalition: both parties are using the political color of the moment – orange. So get ready for Poland’s freshly squeezed, double orange coalition.

And even a colorblind German could get his teeth around that one.

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With Poland’s Parliamentary elections just around the corner Poles have only a few days to make up their minds on who is going to rule the country for the next four years. It looks like the Solidarity rooted center right Civic Platform and conservative Law and Justice party are heading for a landslide victory. These two parties have similar values but there are differences in their political programs which could create problems after the dust settles.

According to opinion polls, on the eve of the parliamentary elections ordinary Polish voters were fed up with the avalanche of sleazy corruption scandals by the left wing SLD and this is why an overwhelming majority have opted for change. This is why the Civic Platform and the Law and order party are most likely to form the country’s next coalition government.

The Civic Platform’s Hanna Gronkiewicz Waltz, the former Govenor of the National Bank of Poland thinks that her party’s policies will bring Poland out of double digit unemployment.

But then there is the Law and order Party. This right wing conservative grouping is bent on giving Poland an entirely new image by cleaning up corruption. Adam Bielan from the Law and Order party says that the country is ripe for change.

But as Polish politics has shown in the past, coalitions made up of center right wing parties have come and gone, leaving Poland with a minority government. Polish voters are hoping for a better, brighter future.

Ridding Poland of corruption in the halls of commerce and government, creating jobs and providing better social security seem to be the main priorities of the next center right wing coalition Government and issues that Poles hope lawmakers will finally address.

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In the run up to parliamentary elections in Poland the right wing Wprost magazine jointly with BusinessWeek put 15 questions to the most likely candidates for the post of Prime Minister in the new government. They are Jan Rokita from the Civic Platform (PO) and Jaroslaw Kaczynski from Law & Justice (PiS), whose twin brother Lech is running for the presidency.

The questionnaire, which dealt with vital economic issues of the country, revealed that differences on assesing some of the problems by the two potentially victorious right wing parties seem to be only a smoke secreen created by differing tactics of their leaderships. After the elections, both teams are sure to reach a compromise, which should provide opportunities for speeding up Poland’s economic development, writes Wprost in an article titled “Doctor Kaczynski and Mister Rokita”.

Newsweek also looks at imminent ruling elites and their figures focusing on the Civic Platform’s Jan Rokita. In its opinion, Rokita wants to and is able to make an imprint on the political history of Poland, as he is not only craving for power, but is also the best prepared candidate for assuming it.

The top contender to the post of Prime Minister in the new cabinet says, his administration will be small, yet effective. He plans to merge certain ministries, eliminate many inefficient governmental offices and reorganise special services departments. This includes Rokita’s most controversial idea of getting rid of the Military Intelligence Service. However, a head of government can only be as effective as the backing he enjoys in parliament. Newsweek Polska points to the worrying fact that Jan Rokita is a strong, but lonely figure in his Civic Platform. Having a group of staunch supporters among his fellow party members could prove crucial.

Polityka features the potential winners of the race for president and head of government, Donald Tusk and Jan Rokita, respectively, asking what unites and what divides the two leaders and top choice candidates coming from the Civic Platform. A Kashubian from the north and Cracovian from the south. A historian and a lawyer.

A liberal and a conservative. A follower of Balcerowicz type financial policy and its contestant. Although representing entirely different characters they come from the same generation with similar political experience. But will this suffice for the future president and prime minister to remain on the same team? Tusk and Rokita appear to be in tandem more from necessity than from choice. Both are too strong players for one to eliminate the other. It’s a coarse friendship, concludes Polityka.

Tygodnik Solidarnosc, the weekly of the Solidarity trade union, looks back at the 25th anniversary celebrations of the former communist bloc’s first free workers association. Solidarity chairman Janusz Sniadek praises the organizers and participants of the jubilee events, stating that Poland and its people have well deserved the right to observe the workers protests of August 1980 in a dignified atmosphere.

A person often recalled in this context had been the late Pope John Paul 2nd whose words of guidance and support in those difficult times helped Poles persist in their struggle for freedom. But, says Sniadek, the conduct of many politicians from the post-communist left has marred the solemn celebrations. Instead of humble remorse, they displayed arrogant disrespect for the suffering of millions by presenting false excuses for their past wrongs, tying to present themselves as those who saved Poland from bloodshed and Soviet military intervention.

On the 5th death anniversary of Jerzy Giedroyc, the Catholic Tygodnik Powszechny pays tribute to this great intellectual and political visionnaire of Polish emigre circles in the West during post-war communist rule. Giedroyc was the founder and director of the Polish Literary Institute in Paris and its famous Kultura monthly, which presented works of authors banned by censorship of the communist regime in Warsaw. Tygodnik Powszechny recalls his ideas in the context of the euphoria accompanying the Orange Revolution in Ukraine and the current political squables with Belarus. Giedroyc had always been an advocate of ridding Polish mentality of bias towards the East. He had actually foreseen the emergence of independent and sovereign states between Poland and Russia – countries which should be friendly disposed towards Poland. And vice versa, as Giedroyc had taught us, emphasizes the weekly.

Turning to the signing of the Russian-German agreement on the construction of a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea, the Wprost terms it the Putin-Schroeder Pact which serves the reconstruction of the Russian empire for German money. “First, there was the toast in Moscow in 1939, now, there’s been another in Berlin in 2005. Sixty six years ago, Ribbentrop and Molotov agreed on the partition of Poland by Germany and Russia and confirmed conditions of oil deliveries to Nazi Germany. The latter ultimately assured Hitler of the readiness of waging war on Poland”, recalls the weekly.

Wprost cautions that the construction of the pipeline under the Baltic will enable Russia to resort to economic blackmail not only against Poland, but also Ukraine and other Baltic states. Moscow will be free to cut them off from gas deliveries without disturbing its arrangements with the older EU countries. Making a decision to cooperate with Russia on such terms, Germany is acting against the interests of at least four Union members, comments Wprost.

The already quoted Newsweek Polska notices a fresh and fast growing hobby of many Poles. Historical re-enacting is a passion uniting the old, middle aged and young. Hundreds of associations have mushroomed grouping enthusiasts of Napoleonic wars, famous armed encounters of the middle ages, as well as battles of both World Wars.This is quite a time consuming and costly hobby (uniforms or armour recreated in minute detail cost up to 2 thousand euros!), but the fanatics of historical re-enactment regret no minute, nor penny spent. And since long and turbulent Polish history notes over a thousand battles, it’s no wonder that the calendar of grand scale events is full throughout the entire year!

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Twenty five days before the polls the top leftist candidate in the presidential elections - Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz - has pulled out of the race. What are the short, and long-term consequences of the move? Michal Kubicki finds out...

Two months ago, Cimoszewicz was at the top of the race, with over 30 percent support. When I talked to him at that time, he was delighted with the scope of support but expected a dirty campaign

Cimoszewicz's fears of negative campaigning have proved justified. Explaining his resignation, he said he was the victim of a smear campaign over his personal finances, a campaign of lies, false accusations and slander.

Cimoszewizc admitted that he had made a mistake while declaring his financial assets but denied trying to hide anything, accusing his opponents of blowing the issue out of proportion and using dirty tricks.

According to sociologist Piotr Kwiatkowski of PENTOR he's become too =exhausted to stay in the race, with slim chances to get into the second round

Cimoszewicz's withdrawal has turned the race for presidency into a confrontation between two centre-right candidates, with Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform being the frontrunner. It also dealt a serious blow to the leftist Democratic Left Alliance SLD which backed Cimoszewicz.

Initial polls indeed suggest that 48 year old Tusk, who's campaigning on the slogan ‘A Person with Principles’, may score an easy win over the conservative Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski.

Cimoszewicz declined to endorse fellow leftist candidate Marek Borowski, leaving his sizeable electorate in a highly difficult situation.

According to all Polish commentators, Cimszewicz's resignation is a strong blow for the left wing, which will take a long time to rebuild.

There is no doubt that the latest developments are also a setback for president Kwaśniewski, who saw Cimoszewicz as his successor. Political analyst Krzysztof Mularczyk thinks that the current upheaval on the pre-election scene will have far reaching consequences.

On September 25, two weeks before electing a new president, Poles will be electing a new Parliament. Opinion surveys show the ballot appears to be a done deal with Donald Tusk's Civic Platform outpacing all the other parties.

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"I don't like it, but I give up in the face of my troupe's material needs."
-Maciej Nowak,
director of the Wybrzeże Theater in Gdańsk, where a group of actors supplements their meager salaries by guarding a parking lot owned by the theater

"We discipline people, appealing to their faith and honor."
-Roman Giertych, leader of the League of Polish Families (LPR), on why the party requires its candidates in the parliamentary elections to swear to God and the Holy Trinity and to sign an agreement to be called traitors and liars if they leave the party

"Fighting male domination is a cover for ugly women plotting to censor the pretty ones."
-Ewa Michalik, a columnist of the rightist Gazeta Polska, in a story on feminism

"My son was officially informed that, as of July 6, he was losing his unemployment benefits due to his death. But, he could still appeal the decision."
-A resident of Szczecin on a letter sent by the County Job Office to her deceased son

"Since Greece joined the eurozone, it's been much better. Before, drachma coins were worthless, so fans hurled them at the players of the opposite team. But no Greek person will throw a euro-that'd be a waste of good money."
-Soccer player Igor Sypniewski, former player of Panathinaikos Athens, on aggressive Greek fans

"Try talking to people without cursing. If someone can't do that, they may as well quit right now."
-Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko after signing a decree dissolving the traffic police that were frequently criticized for corruption and vulgar behavior, and establishing a new formation

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Left wing candidate, Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz, has withdrawn from October’s presidential elections citing ‘black propaganda’ from his opponents as the reason. The decision - announced less a month before the elections - is likely to have many repercussions.

Announcing his resignation, 54-year-old Cimoszewicz spoke with much bitterness about the campaign of lies, false accusations and slander directed against him and his family.

Two months ago Cimoszewicz led the race with over 30 percent support. In recent weeks he dropped to a third place, behind two centre-right candidates, as a result of a scandal about allegedly withholding information about his stock exchange dealings.

Most observers of the Polish scene think that he's become psychologically exhausted.

Cimoszewicz's colleagues from the leftist party stress that he never expected this sort of campaign and that he's fallen to victim to rivals' attempts to dig up dirt.

What are the possible political repercussions of Mr. Cimoszewicz's sensational move?

According to journalist Robert Strybel, it may prove a boost for the militant farmers' leader Andrzej Lepper, who's also running for president.

Cimoszewicz's resignation will surely have an impact on the parliamentary elections in less than two weeks time. Robert Strybel thinks that many supporters of the leftist Democratic Left Alliance SLD may now think twice whether to cast their votes for a party which does not take part in the presidential race

It's be interesting to see the results of the first opinion polls following Cimoszewicz's resignation. The latest survey shows Donald Tusk of the Civic Platform leading the presidential race with 43 percent support, ahead of the conservative Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski - with 22 percent.

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From Financial Times
Optimism high as Poland regains investment lustre
By Jan Cienski in Warsaw

Poland is regaining its reputation as the most attractive location for foreign investors in central Europe, after being trumped for several years by more aggressive rivals such as Slovakia.

In the last month Poland beat the Czech Republic to win a €430m ($528m, £290m) flat screen factory from LG Philips LCD, the Korean-Dutch joint venture. Symbolically the factory will be located in Kobierzyce, in south-west Poland, which had been expecting a car plant from South Korea's Kia before losing out toSlovakia last year.

Last month MAN, theGerman truck manufacturer, announced a €100m investment in a truck factory near Krakow, which beat an offer from Slovakia.

To ensure victory the government changed the system of financial support for investors in just two weeks, an unusual display of flexibility.

Marcin Kaszuba, Poland's deputy economy minister, recently predicted that the government planned to announce another 10 foreign investments by September 25, bringing the total foreign investment for the year to about $10bn, which approaches the record of $10.6bn reached in 2000.

The current optimism contrasts with the gloom that prevailed in the Polish government last year after Kia opted for Slovakia, one year after carmaker PSA-Peugeot Citroën also shunned Poland for Slovakia and three years after the Czech Republic wooed a Toyota-Peugeot project.

At the time, Polish officials mentioned Poland's lamentable roads, frequent changes in tax law, lack of a unified investment strategy and high-profile corruption scandals as factors behind the investment losses.

But over the last year the technocratic administration that took power after the collapse of a corruption-ridden government has devoted enormous time and energy to attracting investors.

Poland has also learned how to attractively tailor its offers to investors without giving away more than it can afford, as may have happened with Slovakia's agreement with Kia, a Hyundai affiliate.

There, Slovakia promised land it had not bought in advance and offered the equivalent of a 15 per cent subsidy for the €700m investment. Both Slovakia and Poland recently rejected demands for lavish subsidies from Hankook, a Korean tyremaker.

Also important for Poland regaining its investment lustre was a new flat corporate tax of 19 per cent, and Poland's return to economic growth after two years of stagnation, buttressed by Warsaw's entry into the European Union last year.

Investors also appear to be pleased with the outlook for coming elections in parliament and for the presidency: both contests are likely to be won by the centre-right opposition, which promises to reduce taxes and regulation.

In addition, wages are still about one-sixth those of Germany, and Poland's labour productivity is up sharply, growing by 4 per cent last year.

Bernd Kaimer, CEO of Kaimer, a German pipe fitting company, said: "The most obvious thing is that labour is cheaper, the other costs are lower, and the efficiency is not far below west European standards."

Poland has also had success in attracting call centres and other outsourced back-office operations; at the end of 2004 it had 770 call centres.

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September 15th 2005 marks the 70th Anniversary of the start of the maiden voyage of M/S Pilsudski from Gdynia to New York.

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In the run-up to Poland's parliamentary elections on Sept. 25, it seems that the right-wing parties are heading for a landslide win. According to two recent opinion polls, the neo-conservative, liberal Civic Platform can count on over 35 percent of the vote. What is more, its likely coalition with the right-wing Law and Justice may well have a sufficient majority to change the constitution.

The two parties have long made it clear that a two-thirds majority is their goal. This would give them enough power to strengthen the executive branch of government, root out corruption and slim down overgrown bureacracy. Civic Platform leader Donald Tusk, who's well in front in the presidential race, says he and his party are running on a ticket of low taxes and an honest state. But according to Matthew Day of Poland Monthly, a serious debate on programmes is not of much significance in this campaign.

Two weeks before Election Day it is clear that the moderate image of the Civic Platform and its leader Donald Tusk has lured many Poles, weary of radicals on both the right and the left of the political scene. But as Marcin Sobczyk of the Warsaw Independent news service thinks, it is not the liberal image as such that attracts voters.

After four years of leftist government and after ten years of Aleksander Kwasniewski as president, Poland is in for a major political change. The views of this Warsaw student seem to reflect the sentiments of many young Poles: change is necessary, but calls for a sharp change of course after 15
years of reform are rejected.

The presidential elections will be held two weeks after the parliamentary polls - on October 9.

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"If we were to study all the regulations binding in Poland, it would turn out we were all multiple criminal offenders without even realizing it."
-Roman Kluska, founder and ex-owner of computer company Optimus, wrongfully accused of embezzlement and tax fraud

"Former prime minister looking for interesting proposals: advisory services, consulting, politics, advertising, business..."
-Leszek Miller, ex-leader of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD), on how he would word a want-ad after the new SLD leadership refused to let him run for the Sejm

"We'll check for listening devices and hang some crosses."
-Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a deputy from Law and Justice (PiS), on the changes that will be made in Sejm rooms currently occupied by SLD deputies

"I'm very pleased to say that I am now in a party over which President Kwaśniewski has no influence."
-Jacek Zdrojewski, a former SLD leader in Mazovia, on why he joined Andrzej Lepper's Samoobrona

"The old saying goes: that it's good to have an uncle in hell."
-Andrzej Gąsienica-Makowski, a local administrator in the Podhale region, on a 25-year-old student from this traditionally rightist region running Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz's election staff office

"He should stop trying to bring Polish rules here; instead he should take a look at how many Polish women come to Lithuania each year to have an abortion."
-Biruta Vesaite, a Lithuanian women's rights activist, on an anti-abortion bill submitted to the Lithuanian parliament by a representative of the Polish minority

The resident, who weighs over 120 kilograms, apprehended one of the three robbers and sat on him; she kept him subdued in this manner for around an hour before the police arrived."
-A report on a robbery of an apartment in Ulyanovsk (Russia) in a local newspaper

"When Miller, Oleksy and Kwaśniewski were drinking warm vodka and eating herring, they got along fine; after moving into palaces, they felt they had to prove who's more important."
-Marek Dyduch, former secretary-general of the Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) on conflicts of the veterans of the left

"The wagon called Poland is stuck in the mud; Cimoszewicz wants to pull it back. I want to push it through, and Kaczyński wants to investigate who's to blame-the driver, the horses, or maybe a broken wheel."
-Donald Tusk, Civic Platform (PO) presidential candidate, on the difference between him and his competition

"I am a sinner and my life has not gone the way I'd like it, but this is my private business."
-Waldemar Pawlak, former prime minister and leader of the Polish Peasants' Party (PSL), when accused of having lovers and illegitimate children and not paying alimony

"In the mid-1970s, 38 percent of the secret collaborators of the SB [secret service] had a college education; so opening the archives means you come across many names from the intelligentsia."
-Antoni Dudek from the National Remembrance Institute (IPN), on revealing the names of SB collaborators

"The strongest candidates will be sent to the most interesting units. We want to avoid repeating the situation where a graduate of Jagiellonian University's Law School was ordered to man a water cannon."
-Gen. Leszek Szreder, national police commander, on changes to the police recruitment regulations
Compiled from press reports

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Informacja o wyborach do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP oraz o wyborach Prezydenta RP

Konsulat Generalny RP w Londynie oraz Konsulat Generalny RP w Edynburgu uprzejmie informują, że wybory do Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i do Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej odbędą się w niedzielę dnia 25 września 2005 roku na podstawie ustawy z dnia 12 kwietnia 2001 r. – Ordynacja wyborcza do Sejmu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej i do Senatu Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej oraz wydane na jej podstawie przepisy wykonawcze.

Wybory Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej odbędą się w niedzielę dnia 9 października 2005 r. na podstawie ustawy z dnia 27 września 1990 r. o wyborze prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej oraz wydane na jej podstawie przepisy wykonawcze. W przypadku konieczności przeprowadzenia ponownego głosowania, odbędzie się ono w niedzielę dnia 23 października 2005 r.

Prawo wybierania posłów i senatorów oraz Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej ma każdy obywatel polski, który najpóźniej w dniu głosowania kończy 18 lat.

Obywatele polscy, przebywający w dniu wyborów za granicą, będą mogli wziąć udział w głosowaniu, jeżeli posiadają ważny polski paszport lub ważny polski dowód osobisty w przypadku przebywania w państwie członkowskim Unii Europejskiej oraz zostaną wpisani, na podstawie osobistego zgłoszenia, do spisu wyborców sporządzonego przez konsula właściwego terytorialnie dla miejsca pobytu wyborcy. Powyższy wymóg wcześniejszego wpisania do spisu wyborców nie dotyczy wyborców posiadających zaświadczenie o prawie do głosowania. Osoby stale zamieszkałe w kraju, wyjeżdżające za granicę, mające zamiar wziąć udział w głosowaniu za granicą, powinny zaopatrzyć się przed wyjazdem w zaświadczenie o prawie do głosowania

Zgłoszenie o wpisanie do spisu wyborców można wnieść ustnie, pisemnie, telefonicznie, telegraficznie, telefaksem lub pocztą elektroniczną do konsula właściwego do miejsca głosowania.

Osoby zamierzające głosować w Londynie, prosimy o dokonywanie zgłoszeń w:

Osoby zamierzające głosować w Edynburgu, prosimy o dokonywanie zgłoszeń w:

Zgłoszenia można dokonać najpóźniej w 5 dniu przed dniem wyborów do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP, a w przypadku wyborów Prezydenta RP – najpóźniej 3 dnia przed dniem wyborów.

Na żądanie osoby uprawnionej zmieniającej miejsce pobytu konsul, na podstawie spisu, wydaje zaświadczenie o prawie do głosowania w miejscu pobytu w dniu głosowania, w tym na terytorium Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej.

Głosowanie w obwodach głosowania utworzonych za granicą zarówno w wyborach do Sejmu RP i Senatu RP jak i w wyborach Prezydenta RP (w pierwszym oraz ewentualnie w ponownym głosowaniu), odbywa się w lokalu obwodowej komisji wyborczej w ciągu jednego dnia, bez przerwy, między godziną 6.00 a 20.00 czasu miejscowego.

Akty prawne, kalendarz wyborczy oraz informacje i komunikaty Państwowej Komisji Wyborczej dostępne są na stronie: www.pkw.gov.pl

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The likely coalition of the centrist Civic Platform (PO) and conservative Law and Justice (PiS) would have secured 309 seats and a safe majority in Parliament, if elections were held last weekend, a poll conducted by GfK Polonia for the daily Rzeczpospolita showed.

The PO led the poll with 35% support, after an 9 percentage point jump from a poll conducted two weeks ago, leaving PiS behind with 26% backing. PO woulld thus have 176 seats, while PiS 133.

The populist Self-Defense (Samoobrona) would have come in third with
51 seats and 11% support, followed by the outgoing Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) with 41 seats and 8% backing.

The League of Polish Families (LPR) would have secured 36 seats with 7% support. The Polish Peasants Party (PSL) would be the last party to make it to Parliament winning 23 seats and reaching the 5% support threshold.

The poll was performed on September 2-4 on a sample of 1,000 Poles.

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Presidential candidates Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz and Donald Tusk had their first televised debate on the "Co z ta Polska" television program hosted by Tomasz Lis.

While they debated a number of issues, including tax policy and the role of the secret services in Poland, viewers made up their minds quickly and in a poll immediately following the program said Tusk was a more credible candidate by a margin of 63% to 37%.

Tusk supported the merits of his party's, the Civic Platform (PO), flat tax proposal. The PO is proposing a 3 x 15 program where VAT, personal and corporate income tax rates would all be 15%. This proposal clearly has public appeal in a country where taxes are ridiculously high and complex.

Cimoszewicz opposes the flax tax, saying that the proposal would lower government revenues and hurt the most vulnerable in society who depend on tax breaks to survive below the poverty line. In a bit of irony, Cimoszewicz (a former communist apparatchik who is now a leader in the post-communist SLD party) said the flat tax was an "anti-solidarity move" and that right "now, we need solidarity." According to Cimoszewicz, tax policy in Poland needs to remain progressive.

On the issue of the secret services, Cimoszewicz said that a small group of people have worked to derail his campaign through false accusations. He said these are the same people who brought accusations against Walesa, Kwasniewski, and Jozef Oleksy in the past. He said he did not know if Tusk was involved because he does not have all the facts.

Tusk countered that everyone knows who governs in Poland and who controls the secret services. Here, he basically made Cimoszewicz look like a buffoon, since it is Cimoszewicz's party that runs Poland at present and, as such, controls the secret service.

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Warsaw, Sept. 7: President Aleksander Kwasniewski believes that the construction of a Russia-to-Germany northern pipeline, which would bypass Poland, cannot be described as Poland's success. According to the president, this is not good news for the EU, either. On September 8 Russia and Germany are expected to sign an initial agreement on the construction of the Russia-to-Germany pipeline, which would bypass Poland and Ukraine by running under the Baltic Sea. From the point of view of the EU, (...), and the EU common policy towards Russia, this is not a good thing when one EU country is conducting such policy. This is the policy conducted over our heads and over the EU as in fact this is a Russian-German project which is not included in the common European project, the president told Radio Zet on Wednesday. And this cannot be described as Poland's success, either. But we should remember that much will depend on the economic side of the project as even Germany still is not sure whether the venture can be economically effective, the president added. Speaking on the same subject Prime Minister Marek Belka said that "Poland failed to convince Germans that the project was harmful for them." "We did not manage to convince Germans that this is harmful for them as they have a different opinion on the project, Belka told a press conference on Wednesday.

Warsaw, Sept. 7: The recent tense situation in Polish-Russian relations has calmed down, Poland's and Russian Foreign Ministers Adam Daniel Rotfeld and Sergey Lavrov noted in a telephone conversation on Tuesday, foreign ministry's spokesman Aleksander Checko said. "The ministers noted with satisfaction that the tense situation of the recent weeks has calmed down," the foreign ministry's spokesman said. According to the ministers, the situation improved after a telephone conversation between Presidents Aleksander Kwasniewski and Vladimir Putin on August 12. The ministers also stressed the "significant role of the two foreign ministries in this positive process." On August 12, after a series of attacks on Polish diplomats in Moscow, President Kwasniewski told Putin about Poland's concern over the "escalation of tension, harmful for the interests of the two countries." Putin voiced the "will to cooperate in order to overcome tensions and misunderstandings."

Warsaw, Sept. 7: President Aleksander Kwasniewski said Wednesday that "several persons in Poland should try to become more deeply involved in Belarussian affairs." When asked about the involvement of presidential candidate Donald Tusk in Belarussian affairs, Kwasniewski said he hoped that Tusk's visit to Belarus was caused by an intention to help the Poles living there and was not part of an electoral campaign. Kwasniewski noted he had no impression that Tusk was an "outstanding specialist in Belarussian affairs." On Tuesday Tusk, and the ousted head of the Union of Poles in Belarus Angelika Borys, met ambassadors of EU states. Earlier Tusk met with Polish community in Grodno.

Warsaw, Sept. 7: Prime Minister Marek Belka offered ousted head of the Union of Poles in Belarus Angelika Borys a post of Poland's honorary consul in Belarus. After a meeting with Borys, Belka stressed that Poland wants her to play a special role in Polish-Belarussian relations The Prime Minister said the function was not was meant to replace her work as the head of the Union of Poles in Belarus. "I am grateful and honoured, but I am the head of the Union of Poles in Belarus first of all," Borys said. "I want to thank the prime minister and all our fellow countrymen in Poland for help and solidarity with us." On behalf of the Polish authorities, the prime minister offered Poland's support for Ms Borys's activities, including material and legal help. He expressed recognition for her courage. Asked about plans to launch Radio Free Belarus, Belka said that legal problems have to be resolved first.

Krynica, Sept.7: A report entitled "New Europe. Report on transformation" prepared by Eurodeputy and former Polish Foreign Minister Dariusz Rosati inaugurated the Wednesday debates of the four-day 15th Economic Forum which started in Krynica on Wednesday. Some 1,500 participants from 40 countries arrived to discuss security, competition, relations between the EU and Russia and problems of the power sector in Central and Eastern Europe. The programme of the forum titled "European challenges: Europe's model and borders" provides for nearly 100 panel discussions on macro-economy, business, power engineering, international politics, science and culture. Economy Minister Jacek Piechota attending the forum told reporters that his ministry is negotiating ten new contracts with foreign investors, however the value of direct foreign investments may be below 10 billion zlotys (3.1 billion USD) this year, Economy Minister Jacek Piechota said on Wednesday. Piechota added that the signing of an investment agreement with LG on the building of a LCD tv plant is a question of several days. The concern plans to invest in Poland 429 million euros. Commenting the planned construction of a new gas pipeline between Russia and Germany the minister said that the decision cannot be blocked by third parties but added that new investments of such type could run through Poland in the forthcoming years. Treasury Minister Jacek Socha announced that by the end of his term in office the ministry will not be reviewing the possibility of lowering Treasury's share in Poland's largest retail bank PKO BP. Former Polish president Lech Walesa attending a panel discussion "European challenges: between tradition and modernity" calling for recognition of values and solidarity said that contemporary challenges for Europe are "rather simple" - balancing the level of development and the planning of such development.

Krynica, Sept. 7: Prime Minister Marek Belka addressing the 15th Economic Forum in Krynica on Wednesday said that surely one cannot say that Europe is in an economic crisis. According to the PM Europe remains to be the biggest regional economy in the world. "Europe's advantage is visible in her exports possibilities. Its an economy of stability and of world's highest social and environment standards," said Belka. He added that Europe's problem is the low pace of growth and high unemployment. However, he stressed that "such ripe economy is bound to have a low growth pace." The PM said that Europe is facing new challenges, including open and active economies of China and India and changes in price relations - growing prices of raw materials and cheap labour, and terrorism which the PM termed as "a privatized war."

Krynica, Sept. 7: 2005 net privatization revenues may be higher han the expected 4 billion 439.2 million zlotys (1.4 billion USD). Treasury Minister Jacek Socha said that the budget target may be exceeded if the treasury manages to sell this year the Odra power plant and smaller amounts of shares in GZE and Warszawskie Elektrownie (Warsaw power plants).Net privatization revenues by the end of August reached over 1.6 billion zlotys.

Warsaw, Sept. 7: A compromise on EU budget for 2007-13 can be reached this year, according to Minister for European Affairs Jaroslaw Pietras. Pietras reiterated that Poland returns to its position from before the June EU summit, resigning from the concessions that were designed to help reach a compromise on the budget. Poland wants the ceiling to EU aid funding at 4 percent of the recipient country's GDP and provisions facilitating absorption of EU funds by Poland's poorest regions.

Kiev, Sept. 7: Ukraine's Prime Minister Yulia Timoshenko will not come to Poland on Wednesday to attend the Economic Forum in Krynica. Earlier, Ukraine's President Victor Yushchenko cancelled his visit to Poland. Timoshenko might still come to Krynica on Thursday or Friday, her spokesman Vitaly Chepynoha said. He explained that the visit has been postponed in connection with the Wednesday sitting of the Ukrainian government and due to "the tense situation in the country." The Ukrainian delegation which already has left for the forum is headed by deputy PM Anatoliy Kinakh.

Warsaw, Sept. 7: Poland is for postponing a discussion on the reform of the United Nations' Security Council until after a UN summit next week, foreign ministry's director for UN Systems and Global Problems Piotr Ogonowski said Wednesday. The Poland's standpoint on the UN reform will be presented by President Aleksander Kwasniewski in New York. Kwasniewski will chair the work of one of four "round tables" during the summit.

Legnica, Sept. 7: Legnica commune is encouraging local businessmen to develop commercial contacts with partners from Ukraine. Commune authorities are planning to organize a special programme helping Poles in establishing business ties with partners from Ukraine. The programme has been prepared by Kiev experts from the Institute of Social Transformations, its key goal is the development of direct cooperation, especially economic ties directly between companies from Lower Silesia and cities of eastern Ukraine, spokesman for the Legnica town hall told PAP on Wednesday.

Berlin, Sept. 7: The interior ministers of four German lands - Bavaria, Brandenburg, Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt - Wednesday appealed to the German government not to relax control measures on the country's borders to Poland and the Czech Republic until both meet EU safety norms. Earlier EU Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini announced that border control on both frontiers will be lifted in 2007. According to the ministers Polish and Czech plans of fulfilling EU safety conditions by 2007 were "completely unrealistic". They also suggested that relaxed border laws will only be possible after an "objective assessment" of Poland's and the Czech Republic's fulfillment of EU norms. Among others, both countries will have to prove they are able to protect their frontiers with Ukraine and Belarus and participate in Schengen IT databanks, the ministers said. Non-fulfillment of the above requirement could result in a rise of organized crime in Germany, they added.

Opole, Sept. 7: CDU candidate for the German Bundestag Angela Merkel will publish a pay advertisement in a bilingual Schlesisches Wochenblatt weekly that comes out in Opole region. According to head of the socio-cultural association of Germans at Opole Silesia Henryk Kroll this seems to be a good sign. If Ms Merkel becomes the chancellor the German minority will gain, Kroll told PAP on Wednesday. Out of 100,000 double passports holders (Polish and German) only some of them are entitled to vote in elections as apart from having the citizenship the voter is required to live in Germany for at least three months. Votes can be sent by post or cast in the German consulate in Opole, Kroll said.

Warsaw, Sept. 7: PLL LOT has chosen Boeing for the supplier of long-range planes, spokesman for LOT Leszek Chorzewski told PAP on Wednesday. The value of the purchase of 14 planes will amount to 910 mn USD. Chorzewski said that under a related agreement 7 Boeing 787-8 will be delivered. The agreement includes also the option for the purchase of two new planes and commercial rights for five successive machines. A statement issued by the company explains that 910 mn USD is the catalogue price without options and purchase rights. Owing to the purchase PLL LOT will be able to launch direct Warsaw - Los Angeles or Warsaw - Bangkog flights.LOT will be the first European airline to use the version 787 of

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