Dateline Warsaw – Politico-gate
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Peter Gentle
03.11.2014 07:32
In the show this week: Radoslaw Sikorski's memory lapse; the eurozone totters towards a triple-dip recession; and Ukraine's 'pro-European' elections.
Welcome to Dateline Warsaw with me Peter Gentle, where journalists examine, dissect and pontificate on this week’s top news stories.
In the studio this week we have Wall Street Journal's central and eastern European bureau chief in Warsaw Marcin Sobczyk; political columnist for the UK Guardian and the Poland Today monthly magazine Remi Adekoya; and Polish Radio’s senior foreign correspondent Jarek Kociszewski.
In the show: a lapse of memory? Former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski made headlines for all the wrong reasons last week when he first claimed that President Putin had offered Poland a piece of Ukraine in a 19th century-type imperial carve up during a meeting in Moscow in 2008, only to admit the next day hat no such conversation took place. Is the opposition right to call for his resignation as speaker parliament?
The IMF has urged further cuts to Poland’s interest rates to ward off an economic slowdown – why does the economy need a kick start?
Journalists trotted out headlines about how pro-European parties won by a landslide in Ukraine’s general election last Sunday. But all of the 29 parties standing in the ballot were 'pro-European' in their election promises. So what did the vote tell us about Ukraine's future?
All that, and more, in this week's Dateline Warsaw.
Welcome to Dateline Warsaw with me Peter Gentle, where journalists examine, dissect and pontificate on this week’s top news stories.
In the studio this week we have Wall Street Journal's central and eastern European bureau chief in Warsaw Marcin Sobczyk; political columnist for the UK Guardian and the Poland Today monthly magazine Remi Adekoya; and Polish Radio’s senior foreign correspondent Jarek Kociszewski.
In the show: a lapse of memory? Former foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski made headlines for all the wrong reasons last week when he first claimed to Politico magazine that President Putin had offered Poland a piece of Ukraine in a 19th century-type imperial carve up during a meeting in Moscow in 2008, only to admit the next day hat no such conversation took place. Is the opposition right to call for his resignation as speaker parliament?
The IMF has urged further cuts to Poland’s interest rates to ward off an economic slowdown – why does the economy need a kick start?
Journalists trotted out headlines about how pro-European parties won by a landslide in Ukraine’s general election last Sunday. But all of the 29 parties standing in the ballot were 'pro-European' in their election promises. So what did the vote tell us about Ukraine's future?
All that, and more, in this week's Dateline Warsaw.