Fear of a foreign takeover is strongest in northern and western Poland, once part of Germany.
Emergency services in western Poland have rescued 19 miners who were trapped underground when a minor earthquake caused a tunnel to collapse.
Lithuania-born Miss Baliutaviciene's naked body was found in a field in western Poland two months later, but prosecutors never found out where she was killed.
These should also be conditions for Western assistance to the Poland.
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The allies have just promised consultations under the auspices of the European Commission to flesh out Western economic and financial commitments to Poland and Hungary.
Similarly absent has been any evidence that Moscow would be willing to contribute hard currency credits, loan guarantees and debt relief to accompany Western economic and financial assistance to Poland.
Like most of Western Europe, before the reform Poland was facing a fiscal time-bomb, with the number of active workers for each pensioner expected to fall from four to three by 2020.
Nonetheless, given the strong attachment of today's Poland to modernity and the western world, I asked one of our hosts why the VIP fleet still used aircraft from the Soviet era.
As the Bush Administration and Congress consider future steps in responding to dramatic events in Poland (and elsewhere in the Soviet bloc), it is imperative that American and Western policies be governed by a recognition that undisciplined economic and financial assistance to Poland will have unintended and undesirable repercussions both for the Poles and for the American taxpayer.
But in recent years, as Poland has transformed itself into a Western free-market democracy, there have also been signs of growing secularism here too.
Western commercial banks know this and will probably not return to Poland, absent government guarantees, unless a genuine economic revolution occurs first.
According to the Boston Consulting Group, if you want to sell refrigerators or cars in western Europe, it can be cheaper to make them in Poland than in China.
Poland, it is true, has had a western-style credit bureau since 1999, and the Czech Republic is setting one up, but these will be little use until borrowers build up a credit history.
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The fear of workers flooding in from Poland or Estonia has caused all but three countries in western Europe to close their labour markets to the new members for up to seven years.
In particular, a financial aid package for Poland should avoid transferring credit risk from private commercial banks to Western governments and taxpayers as a way of covering and thereby encouraging loans from private credit markets.
Many allied governments are inclined to exploit the widely shared desire to aid the process of reform in Poland and Hungary to dismantle multilateral export control arrangements under which such Western governments and their businesses have chafed for years.
Poland's Law and Justice Party is socially to the right of most western conservatives (though, with the Czech Republic's Civic Democrats, it is an ally of Britain's Tories in the European Parliament).
Most of Ukraine's Catholics live in the western half of the country, especially in Galicia, which was a part of predominately Catholic Poland between 1919 and 1939.
Poland is the largest of a dozen mainly eastern European candidates in talks on joining the western bloc, which hopes to expand its membership from 2004 onwards.
More than one million Poles have left to work in Western Europe, including an estimated 400, 000 in Britain, where wages are much higher, since Poland became an EU member in 2004.
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