Word: kaczynski
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...past few days with a growing sense of anger and concern. "You have the right to freedom and indepedence," the Ukrainian head of state, Viktor Yuvshenko, declared . "Yours is the same story as Poland only the difference is that everybody is here, everybody is together," Polish President Lech Kaczynski concluded . "You are not alone!" Lithuania's President Valdas Adamkus said in English. "Let's stand together and victory will be on our side." The crowd was understandably ecstatic. "It's good for us! This has never happened before in the history of the world," says Shalva Nasaridze, 24 a lawyer...
...neither Sarkozy nor anyone else has yet concocted a way out of the mess created by the Irish "no." His task will be all the more complicated after the obstreperous Polish President Lech Kaczynski announced Monday that he would not sign the Treaty, saying the document was pointless after Irish voters rejected it. Sarkozy and other leaders agreed last week to push the treaty forward in the 26 other member states, with an eye to the possibility that Ireland might eventually be compelled to put the question to the people again with more success...
Tusk's line on the missiles was a particularly sharp departure from his predecessor, but not the only one. The previous government, led by Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, whose identical twin Lech is still Polish President, was so plagued by in-fighting, scandal and sour relations with Poland's neighbors that Tusk's victory in last October's election can be partly ascribed to the relatively competent impression he makes. But Tusk's success also represents Poland's growing acceptance of free-market ideas. In 1993, an economically liberal forerunner to the party that Tusk co-founded in 2001 drew...
...October election marked the sharpest divide yet between Poland's rural and urban electorate. While the Civic Platform drew most of its support from what pollsters now refer to as Poland A - urban, educated, younger voters - the rural, older, more devout voters who make up Poland B favored Jaroslaw Kaczynski's Law and Justice Party (PIS) and other parties. In crude terms, the first group includes the winners of Poland's economic transition; the second group, the losers...
Tusk needs the cooperation of the opposition - and of Poland B - to push through the legislative changes he believes Poland needs. The opposition, both on the left and the populist right, is not disposed to tolerance. A failure to deliver on promises, PIS leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski warned recently, could produce "serious social conflict" and "social depression." Certainly Poland has had more than its share of both those ills. "I spent an important part of my life participating in conflicts," says Tusk. "But for me conflict was not the main principle." His central task is to heal the ideological divisions...