Warsaw  - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he aims to give priority to projects such as nuclear power stations and gas contracts in the wake of Moscow's recent cut-off of gas shipments.

"From my government's point of view, in times of energy instability, like the Russian-Ukraine crisis, our priority will be our citizens' energy security," Tusk said on Tuesday.

Tusk said Poland had fared well since the Kremlin cut off gas shipments to Ukraine last week, but said the future might be "less rosy."

Warsaw  - Some 500 people marched in support of Gaza at a demonstration in Warsaw on Saturday, while a smaller group gathered for a demonstration backing Israel.

The pro-Palestinian protesters carried photos of civilian victims and chanted "Free Palestine," in what was the largest demonstration in Poland since Israel launched airstrikes on the Strip two weeks ago.

"We lived through the same thing in 1939, when a visionary got the appetite for more land," said protestor Antoni Brzeziucha. "They lived through the Holocaust themselves, and now they're doing the same thing: killing innocent woman and children."

Warsaw - With a rise in the standard of living and European Union membership, fewer Poles now feel nostalgia for the days of communism, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported on Monday.

Twenty-seven per cent say communism was the best period for Poland, according to a survey in the daily of 1,004 people. The number is down from seven years ago, when 42 per cent reported they remembered that period fondly.

Warsaw - Some 100 people protested outside the Israeli embassy in Warsaw on Monday, calling for an end to "killing civilians" after three days of airstrikes in the Gaza Strip.

"What's happening in Gaza now is not a war against Hamas, it's a genocide against a people who've been kept imprisoned for the past two years," said a Palestinian protester who declined to give his name. "They're bombing mosques. They're bombing hospitals. Is this democracy?"

Warsaw - The Polish government of Premier Donald Tusk pushed through a controversial pension reform law in parliament Friday over the opposition of President Lech Kaczynski.

Using the votes of the governing parites of the PO and PSL and with the support of the leftist opposition SLD, Tusk passed the law with 285 votes, 8 more than the three-fifths supported needed to overcame a presidential veto.

The bill was opposed by 160 deputies, chiefly from the nationalist- conservative PiS led by the president's twin brother, Jaroslav Kacyznski.

With the Sejm's approval, the new pension system law can take effect on January 1.

Warsaw - A Polish bus company is telling the city of Gdansk to pay up after citing 10,000 zloty (3,520 dollars) in losses resulting from traffic jams delaying the company's operations, the daily Wyborcza reported on Thursday.

Buses were stuck in traffic for up to an hour and a half during road renovations, Planetobus owner Jakub Sachse told the daily, and work was delayed for two months.

"I want to make officials realize that there are also social costs," Sachse said. "I hope that with upcoming large-scale renovations, one of the criteria for picking a bid won't be the lowest price but also quick completion time."