The leader of Poland’s main opposition party, Donald Tusk, is campaigning in the UK and the Irish Republic ahead of a election in Poland in October.
Three years after Poland’s 2004 accession to the European Union, it is estimated that more than one million Poles now live in Britain.
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Entries from October 2007
Polish opposition campaigns in UK
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Zimbabwe runs out of bread
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Zimbabwe’s bakeries have shut and supermarkets have warned there will be no bread for the foreseeable future as the government admitted that wheat production had collapsed following the seizure of white-owned farms.
The agricultural ministry announcement that the wheat harvest is only about a third of what is required, and that imports are held up by [...]
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‘Half of Zimbabwe will soon need food aid’
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Half of Zimbabwe’s people will be dependent on emergency food aid next year, a senior British diplomatic source has said, in a damning indictment of President Robert Mugabe’s regime.
Of an estimated eight million Zimbabweans still in the country, “we know we’ll be feeding four million people by January or February, possibly more”, the official said.
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Web blogs about Zimbabwe
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Zimbabwe’s last white farmers face final push
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Ringed by a clutch of Zimbabwean soldiers clicking automatic weapons, Charles Lock handed over the keys to his farm and drove off his land for the last time.
Scores of white farmers, the last survivors of President Robert Mugabe’s land grab, and thousands of their black workers are going through similar agonies.
They now face the final [...]
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