Warsaw/Berlin - Poland's national bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points Wednesday amid growing inflation fears and a strong economic performance.

Warsaw  - Hundreds queued outside Warsaw bookstores Monday to snatch up copies of a new book claiming former Solidarity union leader and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa was a communist spy.

Warsaw - Hundreds of Polish shipyard workers rallied in the capital Friday demanding accountability for public aid given to the ailing facilities amid a deadline from Brussels for a Polish programme to reconstruct the Baltic yards.

Chanting "thieves," some 350 union members from the Gdansk shipyard burned tyres, threw eggs and set off petards near the Treasury Ministry.

The shipyard only received 50 million zlotys (23 million dollars), not the 700 million zlotys the European Commission believes, shipyard Solidarity union chief Roman Galezewski told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Warsaw  - City officials announced plans to open a Museum of Communism in the capital that would recount the Polish struggle against Soviet oppression, said the daily Rzeczpospolita on Wednesday.

Warsaw  - Lech Walesa, one-time leader of the Solidarity trade u

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