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Polish PM Appeals To Brussels To Let His Country Develop
Brussels (AFP) April 18, 2007 Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski appealed to the European Commission Wednesday to stop making decisions that might slow down development in the former communist state. "I come to Brussels with kind of an appeal: let us develop rapidly. Avoid decisions that will increase our development costs," he told reporters travelling with him. "Several decisions of this kind have been taken recently," he said. While Kaczynski did not specify any, tensions between the Commission, the EU's executive body, and Poland have been high notably over a number of environmental issues. The Commission, for example, has taken action at Europe's top court to stop road work undertaken by Warsaw in a significant and fragile forest ecosystem in the northeast of the country. The planned stretch of highway is part of the so-called Via Baltica corridor, a major roadlink for the Baltic states meant to smooth the way for increasing trade between eastern and western Europe. To ease traffic near the town of Augustow, Polish transport authorities are building a bypass road through the Rospuda River valley and Brussels is trying to get the work halted. Poland has been earmarked significant EU funds in the 2007-2013 budget for the Via Baltica project, although none have yet been allocated. Warsaw has said it will use its own money to pay for the Rospuda River bypass. The Commission has also contested Poland's plan to cut carbon-dioxide emissions for the 2008-2012 period.
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The Divided Left Of France
Bordeaux, France (UPI) April 18, 2007The postmen of France have done their Herculean job, delivering more than 300 million election addresses, one for each of the 12 presidential candidates, to more than 25 million households in France. The labor unions have spoken; the traditionally Communist railway workers staged a lightning strike Tuesday that left passengers fuming and muttering about more votes lost for the Left. |
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