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World Bank Supports Government's EU Position

Prime Minister Marek Belka announced that he would push for dissolving parliament in May and hold early elections in June to end house divisions that are threatening to delay euro adoption....

World Bank Supports Two-Year Ascension Plan

Numerous world leaders and soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, with some of the remaining Auschwitz Nazi death camp survivors, gathered in the southern village of Auschwitz for events to mark the camp&...

Parliament Adopts Budget in Preparation for the Euro

According to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the country's economic growth is expected to post a year-average of 5.5% in '04 and 4.75% in '05, as the government addresses price shoc...

Budget's First Reading Brings Heated Exchange

However, the Monetary Policy Council unexpectedly maintained key interest rates at its monthly meeting and kept a restrictive monetary bias. Many analysts had expected that the Council would increase ...