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...Gdansk produce just a handful of ships, while Poland's share of the shipbuilding market has fallen from 4% to 1.6% since the early 1990s. "The shipyard industry used to be the jewel in the crown of the Polish economy under communism. Now it's a drag," says Andrzej Buczkowski, deputy head of the Gdansk shipyard. He blames political interference from Warsaw and the government's unwillingness to embrace tough reforms that might cost jobs. Local and national governments have also been slow to stimulate investment in the kind of technology-intensive industries that would help places like Gdansk...
Polish Academy of Sciences historian Andrzej Friszke and others estimate that 10% of priests cooperated in some way. "When they wanted to have a street procession or to renovate a church," he says, "they had to talk to the secret service, who used such occasions to entice priests into cooperation...
...journalists, on an "alcoholic" civil service, on the former communist "establishment" and on the central bank. This fragrant brew of right-wing populist causes is likely to become more pungent this week, when talks to form a coalition government could result in an important post - Deputy Prime Minister - for Andrzej Lepper. Leader of the Self-Defense party, Lepper is a radical populist who has been convicted of assault (the conviction was erased when he entered parliament) and is under investigation for allegedly libelous attacks on his opponents. He made his name in violent street demonstrations in the mid-1990s...
Directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak...
...world stage. This has instilled a new confidence in the burgeoning entrepreneurial class, emboldening its members to demand solutions to problems like the 17.9% unemployment rate, stifling bureaucracy and spiraling government spending. "I'd like to slam all those politicians in the head and shake them!" shouts Andrzej Kuzmicki, 40, owner of an underwear company in the northeastern city of Bialystok. "We need real change." Tusk and his Civic Platform say they're offering just that. He's been campaigning hard on promises to bring in a 15% flat tax on corporate and personal income, ease the rules for hiring...