Ambitious But Unhealthy Polish Women

Dirty Ambition?

Polish women are allegedly amongst the most ambitious women in Europe according to a research study conducted by Gfk for Bayer Schering Pharma. Researchers Gfk looked at seventeen European countries and Turkey. The study looked at the needs, lifestyle and health of the fairer sex. Over 24,000 women across Europe and Turkey, between the ages of 15 and 49, were polled. For 93% of European and Turkish women, ‘family’ was most important followed by ‘looks and attractiveness’ (90%). In third place was ‘career’ (82%). Polish women scored an astounding 92% in the ‘career’ category. However, it seems only 44% of Polish women believe health to be of importance to them whereas the European average is 77%. Only Dutch women (40%) and Norwegian women (35%) scored worse. Likewise, Polish women are not particularly sporty with only 30% undertaking regular sport 3 times a week or more.
Wirtualna Polska/PAP

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Where’s The Crisis?

Things Getting Better

Economists have recently been expecting the worse but public spending is up, unemployment is falling and there are no signs of any encroaching crisis. Economists are in shock after the Central Statistical Office (GUS) published its latest results. Unemployment fell by 0.3% in June and production rose by an astounding 6.4% which came as a great surprise to economists who expected a rise of around 4%. The figure of 6.4% has exceeded all expectations and, together with falling unemployment, bodes extremely well for the future of the Polish economy. What is more, these positive results are having a positive effect on the Polish złoty which has gained value in the past few days.
Wirtualna Polska

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Edyta Górniak Greedy

Górniak Wants More

Singer and top Polish celebrity Edyta Górniak has thrown a spanner into the works of her much talked about participation in the next edition of Taniec z gwiazdami (the Polish version of Strictly Come Dancing). Edyta Górniak has allegedly made outrageous demands casting doubt on her participation in the twelfth edition of the show. TVN, who produce and run the show, are unwilling to bow to her demands which include PLN 60,000 for taking part in the show and the opportunity to not dance with Rafał Maserak (who has previously won the show twice with different celebrity partners). Górniak believes his luck is about to run out and is demanding a different partner. Her demands could lead the producers of Taniec z gwiazdami to find a ‘star’ with more realistic demands.
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The Trouble With Palikot

Has He Gone Too Far?

Janusz Palikot may have take a step too far. The PO (Civic Platform) politician may soon have to find a new party after his own party members decided to hold him accountable for the tasteless remarks he made about President Lech Kaczyński. The PO authorities will now decide whether or not Palikot should remain a member of their party. Filip Kaczmarek, a fellow PO member, has formally requested that Palikot be removed from Civic Platform after Palikot publicly called for an investigation to be undertaken as to whether Lech Kaczyński was under the influence of alcohol when he boarded the doomed Tupolev TU-154 flight that crashed in Smolensk. What is more, Palikot recently shocked members of Law and Justice (PiS) by stating that Przemysław Gosiewski (who also died in the Smolensk tragedy) is alive and well and was seen at a railway station fighting with some Russians who kidnapped him and are hiding him in Russia. Palikot has demanded that his remains be exhumed to check whether he in fact did die in Smolensk.
Gazeta Wyborcza

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If We Don’t Land, I’m Dead

New Evidence in Smolensk Disaster

The 24-hour TV station TVN24 claims that it has got its hands on a new transcript of the final words of the crew of the doomed Tupolev TU-154 which crashed near Smolensk on April 10th 2010 killing the Polish President, his wife and 94 other passengers. According to TVN24, at 8:38 the pilot of the aircraft, Arkadiusz Protasiuk, says, “If we don’t land, he’ll kill me”. At approximately the same time another unidentified member of the cabin crew says, “He’ll get annoyed, if we don’t… [unidentified word]“.

New Evidence, New Transcript

This casts a shadow over supporters of Lech Kaczyński who were convinced the President would never pressure the pilot into landing under such poor weather conditions.  TVN24 has not yet revealed its sources. By a happy coincidence, the TVN24 announcement comes the very same day that Jarosław Kaczyński decided to do away with his ‘mild manner’ (put to use so effectively in his failed presidential campaign) and is now strongly criticising the government for the way it handled the Smolensk tragedy and the death of his brother.
Gazeta Wyborcza

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