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poniedziałek, maja 30, 2005

The French Vote and Poland

The French Vote and Poland

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The critical mass in Poland is clearly at odds with the view of European government institutions represented by Chirac and Schroeder. All of the leading parties in the polls here for the October election are non-socialist and pro-market. While a recent poll here shows Poles supporting the EU Constituton, it is difficult to separate that confidence from their general approval of EU membership so far. The policies likely to be pushed by a Social-Democratic alliance in Brussels will be unpopular in Poland as rejection of the recent Services liberalization policy illustrated.

The movement in EU politics away from the federalists to those with a more modest Brussels agenda will be entirely consistent with the views of the new Polish Government, if not the current one.

Watch over the next months for a more vocal Poland aligned with the former Brussels outsiders, critical of the French and German direction for the EU. This will occur along with the simultaneous erosion of Chirac and Schroder in their own political environments.

Many of us are, obviously, not upset with the changes......

Randy Mott
Warsaw

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niedziela, maja 08, 2005

Gone Polish

Gone Polish

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In from Delta Democrat Times - Greenville, MS

It's one thing to know the English language, quite another to speak it in conversation.

Toward that end, 20 students from Northwest Mississippi Community College became teachers - in Poland. The young men and women are members of the Senatobia institution's Baptist Student Union, which spent nine days in March in the city of Wroclaw.

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I am sure this was a very educational experience for everyone involved including the Polish students learning English. It would be good for more school systems to get involved in such activities. Although I don't know how much the students could get out of the 9 days that they were here aside from a brief taste of Poland.

I think colleges and universities would be in a better position to send students to teach briefly in Poland as the high school student are a bit underqualified to do anything other than talk to the people. I think it makes EFL teaching seem easier than it is and more of a job anyone can do with no extra training.

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