Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka was to submit his resignation today to fulfil a promise to head a caretaker government for only one year, an offer that President Aleksander Kwasniewski was expected to reject.

The Polish parliament today rejected a motion calling for the immediate resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka, who said this week that he would leave office in early May.

Europe’s big three, Tony Blair, French President Jacques Chirac and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder have all sent letters to the Polish government recommending it buy airliners from Airbus rather than US rival Boeing.

A Polish woman who was abducted last month from her apartment in Baghdad has been freed and has returned to Poland, Prime Minister Marek Belka said today.

Veterans of the Warsaw Uprising laid wreaths and sang patriotic songs today as commemorations peaked with a visit by German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, a high-profile mission to atone for the Nazis’ brutal crushing of the revolt that began exactly 60 years ago.