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News about Poland, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

  1. Jun. 26, 2014
    Polish Parliament votes to retain embattled government of Prime Min Donald Tusk, despite an embarrassing scandal involving several top officials whose private, often profane conversations in upscale Warsaw restaurants had been bugged for more than a year. MORE
  2. Jun. 24, 2014
    Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk says that he will not dismiss any of the ministers whose bluntly politically and occasionally profane conversations were caught on tape, unless they are caught engaging in illegal behavior; Tusk says government will focus on uncovering who had made the recordings. MORE
  3. Jun. 23, 2014
    Polish Foreign Min Radoslaw Sikorski is heard in secretly recorded conversation describing his country's security relationship with United States as 'worth nothing' and 'even harmful,' along with more vulgar terms; deepening scandal over leaked conversations has threatened survival of Prime Min Donal Tusk's center-right government. MORE
  4. Jun. 20, 2014
    Polish Prime Min Donald Tusk warns he might be forced to call early elections if scandal over secretly taped conversations of senior government officials continues to escalate. MORE
  5. Jun. 17, 2014
    Tapes of high-level Polish officials discussing what seem to be unsavory deals are threatening careers of some of country's most prominent leaders and perhaps even survival of current government; transcripts of recordings were published by newspaper Wprost; Prime Min Donald Tusk criticizes recordings, describing them as attempt at coup d'etat. MORE

General Information on Poland

Official Name: Republic of Poland
Capital: Warsaw (Current local time)
Government Type: Republic
Population: 38.5 million
Area: 120,725 square miles; about the size of New Mexico
Languages: Polish
Literacy: Total population: 99.8%; Male: 99.8%; Female: 99.7%
Year of Independence: 1918
Web site: Prezydent.pl

Articles

Tense Vote Spares Polish Government After Recordings Scandal

Prime Minister Donald Tusk and his administration were retained Wednesday, despite controversy over secret tapes of officials’ private conversations that surfaced last week.
June 26, 2014, Thursday

Poland’s Prime Minister Says He Won’t Dismiss Officials Caught on Leaked Tapes

Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the government would focus on uncovering the “criminal gang” that made illegal recordings of ministers having blunt and profane conversations.
June 24, 2014, Tuesday

Marilyn Monroe’s Photo Caper in Poland

A trove of Marilyn Monroe photos by Milton H. Greene is being auctioned in Poland this week. How the images got there – and how they will be sold – is worthy of a madcap caper.
June 23, 2014, Monday

Tapes Said to Reveal Polish Minister Disparaging U.S. Ties

In a new excerpt from secretly recorded conversations, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski is quoted as describing his country’s security relationship with the United States as “worth nothing.”
June 23, 2014, Monday

Polish Premier Says Scandal May Prompt Early Vote

A scandal touched off by secretly recorded conversations of senior members of the government has eroded confidence, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said.
June 20, 2014, Friday

Secret Tapes of Politicians Cause a Stir in Poland

Transcripts released by a Warsaw newspaper are proof that the government should be dismissed, an opposition leader said.
June 17, 2014, Tuesday

Despite Clash in Ukraine, Cease-Fire Talks Advance

The foreign ministers of Russia, Germany and Poland said they were optimistic while President Petro O. Poroshenko of Ukraine proposed setting up a corridor to help people flee the violence.
June 11, 2014, Wednesday

Obama’s Warsaw Workout Finds Its Way to the Internet

A video showed the president in a dark tracksuit wearing earphones as he lifted weights, did squats and rode a stationary bicycle, occasionally grimacing.
June 5, 2014, Thursday

Europe’s Man in Warsaw

Radoslaw Sikorski should be the European Union’s next foreign policy chief.
June 4, 2014, Wednesday

Obama, in Poland, Renews Commitment to Security

A $1 billion program to bolster defenses for American allies in Eastern and Central Europe is announced, but nerves are still rattled by the crisis in neighboring Ukraine.
June 4, 2014, Wednesday

Multimedia

The Polish Underground
Since Poland joined the European Union in 2004, more than a million Poles, mainly young, have come to Britain.

Multimedia

Obama Strengthens Ties With Poland
President Obama and President Bronislaw Komorowski of Poland discussed American support for Eastern European allies ahead of a plan to spend $1 billion in training armed forces on Russia’s borders.
Poland’s ‘Rathole Miners’
Digging coal illegally, often called “rathole mining,” proliferated in the late 1990s in Walbrzych, Poland, after the state abruptly decided to shutter coal plants in the region. It continues today.
Times Minute | Bringing Back the Watch
Also on the Minute, NATO’s revived purpose and the mystery of Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.
Biden Promises Protection to Poland
Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. met with Prime Minister Donald Tusk of Poland in Warsaw to assure allies in Eastern Europe that the United States would protect them against any Russian aggression.
Times Minute | The Costs of Annexation
As President Putin announces the annexation of Crimea, a look at the geopolitical costs and how China is closely watching the situation.

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