Warsaw  - Hundreds queued outside Warsaw bookstores Monday to snatch up copies of a new book claiming former Solidarity union leader and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa was a communist spy.

Warsaw - Hundreds of Polish shipyard workers rallied in the capital Friday demanding accountability for public aid given to the ailing facilities amid a deadline from Brussels for a Polish programme to reconstruct the Baltic yards.

Chanting "thieves," some 350 union members from the Gdansk shipyard burned tyres, threw eggs and set off petards near the Treasury Ministry.

The shipyard only received 50 million zlotys (23 million dollars), not the 700 million zlotys the European Commission believes, shipyard Solidarity union chief Roman Galezewski told the Polish Press Agency (PAP).

Warsaw  - City officials announced plans to open a Museum of Communism in the capital that would recount the Polish struggle against Soviet oppression, said the daily Rzeczpospolita on Wednesday.

Warsaw  - German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk are expected to discuss several sensitive issues Monday during their meeting in the Polish port city of Gdansk, with Ireland's recent rejection of the Lisbon Treaty most likely at the top of the agenda.

Tusk has said the Irish referendum would not disqualify the treaty and the European Union would look for ways to bring it into effect.

"The treaty is good for integration in the EU," he said, "and therefore good for Poland."

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said even with a no vote on the Lisbon Treaty, the European Union would look for ways to bring the treaty into effect.

Warsaw - Low-cost airlines in Poland have hike their ticket prices by upwards of 20 per cent recently amid rising fuel prices, and more increases are expected, the daily Rzeczpospolita reported Wednesday.

Passengers are paying between 10 and 20 per cent more than a month ago, Rzeczpospolita said, with more price increases expected. The price of fuel - which accounts for about a third of carriers' expenses - is entirely to blame for the increased ticket prices.

Poles are beginning to feel the pinch as they plan their summer vacations. Trips to the Mediterrenean from Poland are now as much as 200 zlotys (92 dollars) more expensive than a year ago.