POLAND: Komorowski Wins Party Nomination For President.

AP/    Parliamentary Speaker Bronislaw Komorowski won 68.5% of the Civic Platform Party's vote, defeating Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski for a presidential run. The vote followed a decision by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, the party’s chairman, not to enter the race. The turnout was 47.5%, more than 21,000 of the total  Civic Platofrm party members.

Does America Care About Europe?

SLATE.COM/OPINION: BY Anne Applebaum, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and wife of Poland’s Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski/
"Let's be brutally frank: The 60th anniversary of the NATO alliance, celebrated in April, was a bore. The American president was visibly uninterested. His European counterparts, though more accustomed to "celebrations" consisting of somnolent speeches delivered in multilingual bureaucratese, were no more enthusiastic. The affair closed with a limp American request for more troops in Afghanistan, which had almost no echo whatsoever."

Warsaw Already Warming Up To Moscow.

GUARDIAN.UK/COMMENTARY:Tomas Valasek:
..."The Poles and other east Europeans have themselves been busy "resetting" relations with Russia in recent months. The Poles, in particular, will view the cancellation of missile defence bases in Poland as an affirmation of their recent policy of rebalancing alliances in favour of closer links with the EU."