Warsaw - Deutsche Bahn will purchase Poland's private rail carrier PCC Logistics, a company spokesperson said on Friday.

Deutsche Bahn head Hartmut Mehdorn signed the deal in Warsaw on Friday with PCC board member Norbert Bensel and Waldemar Preussner, founder and owner of the PCC Group, a company statement said.

PCC Logistics employs some 5,800 people and is the biggest private rail company in Poland.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was to meet with his cabinet ministers Friday on slashing government spending, amid forecasts of slowing economic growth and rising inflation.

Tusk asked ministries for a plan that would cut spending by some 17 billion zloty (5.15 billion dollars,) the Polish Press Agency PAP reported, and would amount to a 10 per cent cut in expenses for the first half of 2009.

Warsaw - Polish member of parliament Janusz Palikot resigned Tuesday as head of the Friendly State commission after insulting a former opposition minister, local media reported.

His party had recommended that Palikot be taken off the commission after he accused Grazyna Gesicka of "prostitution" over the former minister's alleged poor management of European Union funds for Poland.

Palikot said he did not agree with the recommendation, but did not want to put fellow party members in an "awkward situation."

Warsaw - Once doubtful and pessimistic, a majority of Poles now believe preparations will be completed in time to co-host the Euro 2012 football tournament with Ukraine.

Seventy-eight per cent now believe their cities will make it before deadline, said a survey of 3,000 people in the daily Rzeczpospolita on Monday.

The survey marks a swing in mood before the football championship. In June, some three-quarters were afraid the country might not be ready or didn't have enough time, according to a poll from the Public Opinion Research Center.

Warsaw - An Israeli attacked Gaza demonstrators who interrupted a ceremony that honored Poles who rescued Jews during World War II, Polish Radio reported on Thursday.

Members of the Anarchist Federation entered a lecture theatre Wednesday in Poznan and unfurled a banner saying, "Enough of the slaughter in Gaza" during a speech by Israel's ambassador.

A scuffle broke out when an Israeli citizen attacked the protesters, Polish Radio said.

The Israeli was taken to a hospital and three Poles were detained.