Poland
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
The 1945 agreements cut three cities in half and defined the new border between East Germany and Poland. What do the three of these cities have in common? They are all crossed by the Oder River and further south by its tributary, the Neisse. Since Poland's integration into the Schengen area at the end of 2007, allowing the free movement of persons, these three 'twin-cities' have...
In a speech given in Warsaw on May 17, EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs said: “In Poland, the word ‘solidarity’ is to this day associated with Solidarność, that brave social movement. But it also has a wider meaning: uniting together for a common cause, for example to help others in need”. Today, Poland, once a beneficiary country in terms of aid, has to...
Zakopane, a small town at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathians, a stone’s throw from Slovakia and 100 km from Krakow, was a refuge for many scholars, writers and painters at the time of the partition of Poland.
It was above all the beauty of the place and the charm of the Tatra Mountains – where the ‘Gorale’, or mountain people, still practice their...
Poland is rediscovering its agricultural know-how with the current fad for ‘bio’ produce among Western Europeans. Know-how it can also make available to the countries of the South.
“Sustainable development is our motto and increasing public awareness of ‘responsible purchasing’ is one of our major programmes”, declares Emilia Slimko, a manager with the...
What place should Poland occupy among the donors? What type of aid and to assist which countries? These and other questions remain open and give rise to many, often passionate, debates. They are also at the origin of a new kind of university course.
“The ‘Peace and Development Studies’ programme that we launched in 2008 is a completely new specialisation in Poland”,...
Since the 10th century Krakow has also been a city of trade, testimony to which remains today in the form of Rynek Glowny, the market square covering four hectares and one of Europe’s biggest medieval squares. It is also a city of art and culture, with its many universities, including the famous Jageillonian University, Central Europe’s second oldest after Prague University. This...
It was described as the ‘Rome of the Slavs’ by Adam Mickiewicz, the great Polish romantic poet who died in 1855 in the middle of the Crimean War, after travelling to the front in an attempt to form a Polish legion to fight the Russians.
Although Warsaw stole the status of capital from Krakow in the 16th century, for many Poles it is Krakow that remains the true heart of their...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Bulgaria is a newcomer to the EU-ACP partnership. As an economy in transition, it has itself been a recipient of foreign aid for the past 20 years. Nonetheless the Balkan state gained experience in development cooperation when the Communist regime was in power. From the early 1960s until the end of the 1980s, Bulgaria was a donor of development aid to over 40 countries including some in sub-...
EU member states are becoming increasingly inward-looking and eager to promote aid policies which prioritise foreign or domestic policy objectives. These are the main conclusions of the annual AidWatch report by CONCORD, released on May 19th in Brussels.
Despite being the world’s biggest aid donor, only nine countries met their EU aid targets in 2010, with the bloc as a whole falling...
The 1945 agreements cut three cities in half and defined the new border between East Germany and Poland. What do the three of these cities have in common? They are all crossed by the Oder River and further south by its tributary, the Neisse. Since Poland's integration into the Schengen area at the end of 2007, allowing the free movement of persons, these three 'twin-cities' have...
In a speech given in Warsaw on May 17, EU Commissioner for Development, Andris Piebalgs said: “In Poland, the word ‘solidarity’ is to this day associated with Solidarność, that brave social movement. But it also has a wider meaning: uniting together for a common cause, for example to help others in need”. Today, Poland, once a beneficiary country in terms of aid, has to...
Zakopane, a small town at the foot of the Tatra Mountains in the Carpathians, a stone’s throw from Slovakia and 100 km from Krakow, was a refuge for many scholars, writers and painters at the time of the partition of Poland.
It was above all the beauty of the place and the charm of the Tatra Mountains – where the ‘Gorale’, or mountain people, still practice their...
Poland is rediscovering its agricultural know-how with the current fad for ‘bio’ produce among Western Europeans. Know-how it can also make available to the countries of the South.
“Sustainable development is our motto and increasing public awareness of ‘responsible purchasing’ is one of our major programmes”, declares Emilia Slimko, a manager with the...
What place should Poland occupy among the donors? What type of aid and to assist which countries? These and other questions remain open and give rise to many, often passionate, debates. They are also at the origin of a new kind of university course.
“The ‘Peace and Development Studies’ programme that we launched in 2008 is a completely new specialisation in Poland”,...
Since the 10th century Krakow has also been a city of trade, testimony to which remains today in the form of Rynek Glowny, the market square covering four hectares and one of Europe’s biggest medieval squares. It is also a city of art and culture, with its many universities, including the famous Jageillonian University, Central Europe’s second oldest after Prague University. This...
It was described as the ‘Rome of the Slavs’ by Adam Mickiewicz, the great Polish romantic poet who died in 1855 in the middle of the Crimean War, after travelling to the front in an attempt to form a Polish legion to fight the Russians.
Although Warsaw stole the status of capital from Krakow in the 16th century, for many Poles it is Krakow that remains the true heart of their...
In the run up to the September Review conference in New York on the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), the European Commission has drafted a staff working paper on ‘More and Better Education in Developing Countries’, http://ec.europa.eu/development/icenter/repository/SEC2010_0121_EN.pdf) and is in the midst of drawing up other thematic papers on health, food security, gender...
Bulgaria is a newcomer to the EU-ACP partnership. As an economy in transition, it has itself been a recipient of foreign aid for the past 20 years. Nonetheless the Balkan state gained experience in development cooperation when the Communist regime was in power. From the early 1960s until the end of the 1980s, Bulgaria was a donor of development aid to over 40 countries including some in sub-...
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