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.

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski is unable to meet French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy next month for talks on unblocking the European Union's reform treaty, an aide said Thursday.

Sarkozy, whose country holds the EU's six-month until December 31, has previously said he would meet Kaczynski on December 6 to discuss the Lisbon Treaty. But the Polish president's office said he will be visiting Asia.

Warsaw - Some 30 union members in Warsaw continued to occupy Prime Minister Donald Tusk's office Thursday after a group spent the night in the building, demanding a meeting with Tusk - who is on a foreign visit - to discuss a bill that would slash early retirement.

Members of "August 80" - a more hard-line group than the Solidarity union - said they wouldn't leave until they got a meeting.

Frankfurt - The European Central Bank called Poland's plan to enter the eurozone by 2012, "ambitious, but realistic," said Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk after talks with the bank's leadership in Frankfurt, Germany on Wednesday.

Tusk said the recent world economic crisis has made the currency swap more difficult for Poland, but not impossible.

Warsaw - Some 200 labor union members in Warsaw occupied Prime Minister Donald Tusk's office on Wednesday, demanding a meeting with Tusk on a bill that would slash early retirement.

Members of "August 80" - a more hard-line group than the Solidarity union - said they wouldn't leave until they got a meeting. Tusk was at the time in Frankfurt for talks with the European Central Bank on Poland's entry into the eurozone.