EU / POLAND: Assuming Presidency...PM Tusk Blasts EU Leaders For Hypocrisy; Fin Min Rostowski Voices Doubts About EU Approach To Greek Crisis.

GUARDIAN

Taking his new role as rotating EU president seriously, Poland's PM Donald Tusk strongly criticized the EU's role in the Greece's sovereign debt crisis, immigration, spending and the budget.

He accused some national leaders of posing as champions while pandering to Euro-skepticism and using immigration fears to curb the Schengen Treaty's important freedom of travel.

"The different phenomenon I am talking about is the birth of a type of Euro-skepticism which does not declare itself. But it's the behavior, the words, the actions by politicians who say they are for the EU, support further integration, but at the same time suggest actions and decisions that weaken the community."

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Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski (above) added his opinion over doubts about the EU's handling of the Greek debt crisis.
He believes there is too much emphasis on austerity and too little focus on growth.
Rostowski is a British-born economist and academic.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/eurozone-crisis-poland-idUSLDE76103220110702

POLAND: PM Donald Tusk...Interviewed.

GUARDIAN/ H. Pidd

  "In an outspoken interview with the Guardian and its European media partners, Donald Tusk said the growing European preoccupation with the south should not come at the expense of the east. He also criticized David Cameron's plan to cut the EU budget and seemed to take a swipe at British and French leaders when he chastised "certain European politicians, who at a time of crisis speak the language of national egotism and state protectionism".

POLAND: 1st Interest Rate Raise Since 2008; Jaroslaw K. Blames Russian Controllers For Smolensk Crash.

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    To keep inflation in check and the zloty strong, the central bank led by Marek Belka (pictured left) raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points -- to 3.75 percent-- the first increase since June 2008.
   Consumer prices are escalating in Eastern Europe. Hungary has raised rates twice in two months, increasing its benchmark to 5.75 percent. Inflation is much worse in Serbia which at 12% has one of the highest benchmarks in the world.
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 ALSO:  Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski is still harping about Russia's report re the cause of the 2010 Smolensk plane crash that killed his twin brother and 95 others. He continues to blame Russia for the tragedy, rejecting the report and calling it one-sided against the Polish pilots. He also accused P.M. Donald Tusk of "political gambling" and said "some people" just don't want the truth.
   This back and forth blame game between Jaroslaw and Russia and Jaroslaw and Tusk reminds me of when I would point to my older brother for everything that went wrong, to ward off scoldings and punishment, even when it was my fault. Of course, I was 6-years-old!
http://en.rian.ru/world/20110119/162211594.html

POLAND: PM Tusk Rejects Russian Crash Report Draft.

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    PM Donald Tusk is calling a draft report of Russia's investigation into the plane crash that killed the Poland's president and 96 others in April "unacceptable" and containing some conclusions "without foundation".
    Tusk said the report did not comply fully with the Chicago Convention which regulates international air travel.