Warsaw  - Poles made up the largest immigrant group in the European Union, followed by Romanians and Moroccans, an EU report said Tuesday.

Out of some 3 million immigrants that settled in the EU, some 290,000 were Poles, said the Eurostat statistics based on 2006.

Some 2 million Poles went to work in other EU countries - notably Britain and Ireland - since Poland joined the European Union in 2004.

Poles working abroad have contributed to the ex-communist nation's prosperity, sending home more than 8 billion dollars in 2007 while helping to cut the jobless rate.

London, Nov 18: Poland Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has allegedly passed racist jibes on US President-elect Barack Obama, saying that his grandfather was a cannibal, and ate a Polish missionary!

An Oxford-educated Sikorski (45) outraged colleagues when he joked that the US President-elect had Polish roots. “His grandad ate a Polish missionary,” The Mirror quoted him as saying.

Meanwhile, Opposition leaders in Poland are calling for him to be charged with breaking laws on racism.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was going to Kuwait and Qatar Monday for three days of talks on gas contracts and lessening Poland's reliance on Russian supplies.

Tusk would meet with Gulf leaders for talks on economic cooperation, energy, and the chemical and petrochemical industry, his chancellery said.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Saturday that the establishment of the US missile shield in his country was solely of concern to Poland and the United States.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who currently holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, would have no influence on the project, Tusk said in Warsaw, according to Polish news agency PAP.

He expected "no comments, no actions" for a third country on the issue of the missile shield. Even friendly countries should not interfere, Tusk said.

Warsaw - Union members in Warsaw left Prime Minister Donald Tusk's office on Friday morning after spending two nights in the building, threatening a general strike and saying it was "cowardly" to relocate the office.

Members of "August 80" - a more hard-line group than the Solidarity union - have been occupying Tusk's offices since Wednesday in protest over a bill that would slash early retirement. But they left the building on Friday morning after officials said Tusk's office had been temporarily relocated.

Paris/Warsaw - French President Nicolas Sarkozy will meet the Dalai Lama in Poland next month, but Poland's president will not be available for talks on the EU's stalled reform treaty, officials said Thursday.

Sarkozy, whose country holds the EU's six-month presidency until December 31, is to meet the Tibetan spiritual leader at a December 6 event celebrating 25 years since former Solidarity leader Lech Walesa received the Nobel Peace Prize, officials in Paris said.