Nevertheless, irradiated foods that fall within the single category ; ' dried aromatic herbs, spices and vegetable seasonings ' are permitted presently in all 27 member states of the European Community and seven countries ( Belgium, Czech Republic, France, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom ) also maintain a number of national regulations that allow other irradiated foods to be marketed as long as they comply with Directvie 1999 / 2 / EC.

A number of schools in Poland use Kashubian as a teaching language.

The reported number of deaths linked to the use of drugs in the Netherlands, as a proportion of the entire population, is together with Poland, France, Slovakia, Hungary and the Czech Republic the lowest of the EU.

# Many Poles living in emigrant communities ( for example in the USA ), whose families left Poland just after World War II, retain a number of minor features of Polish vocabulary as spoken in the first half of the 20th century that now sound archaic, however, to contemporary visitors from Poland.

However, Ernst & Young's 2010 European attractiveness survey reported that Poland saw a 52 % decrease in FDI job creation and a 42 % decrease in number of FDI projects since 2008.

Location of main airports in Poland, with number of passengers served in 2011

In preparation for the Euro 2012 football championships being jointly hosted by Poland and Ukraine, a number of airports around the country will be renovated and redeveloped.

On the Baltic Sea coast, a number of large seaports exist to serve the international freight and passenger trade ; these are typically deep water ports and are able to serve very large ships, including the ro-ro ferries of Unity Line, Polferries and Stena Line which operate the Poland – Scandinavia passenger lines.

A number of independent countries – Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland – emerged from the war.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

Across the summer the band played a number of festivals, including Weyfest and Glastonbury and T in the Park in the UK and Oxegen 2010 in Ireland, and concerts in Japan, Greece, Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria.

* Toruń has the largest number of preserved Gothic houses in Poland, many with Gothic wall paintings or wood-beam ceilings from the 16th to the 18th centuries

The number of Poles as a percentage of the total population fell to just 0. 5 % after the reconstitution of Poland in 1918, when many returned home.

* Zoo-The oldest and largest ( in terms of the number of animals ) Zoo in Poland

The Brigade comprised a number of troops varying between four and five thousand, drawn from units pledged by eleven countries: Argentina, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain and Sweden.

On a number of occasions, and in 1410 in particular, Sigismund allied himself with the Teutonic Knights against Wladyslaw Jagiello of Poland.

Like France and Sweden, homosexual activity was legal but socially frowned upon in Poland, and he undertook relationships with a number of men in Warsaw.

There are a number of national and locally produced television and radio channels available both over-the-air from the nearby RTCN Białystok ( Krynice ) Mast, the seventh highest structure in Poland, in addition to transmitter sites within the city.

Further exceptions are E 67, going from Estonia to Poland ( wrong side of E 75 and E 77 ), assigned around year 2000, simply because it was best available number for this new route, most of E 63 in Finland ( wrong side of E 75 ) E 8 in Finland ( partly on the wrong side of E 12 after a lengthening around 2002 ) and E 82 ( Spain and Portugal, wrong side of E 80 ).

Despite his belief that the attack on Poland would cause only a local war, on 15 August 1939 Raeder took the precaution of ordering two Panzerschife the Admiral Graf von Spee and the Deutschland, a number of U-boats and the Dithmarschen ships Altmark and Westerwald to the Atlantic in case Britain should go to war.

The university also has a number of projects and initiatives dedicated to bringing Poland and Germany together, and offers its students pro bono Polish courses.

After the war ended, in 1949 and 1950, the authorities of the People's Republic of Poland arrested and interrogated a number of suspects from or around the town of Jedwabne, accused of collaboration with the Nazis in committing the crime and put them on trial.

A number of other small towns in the United States changed their names to Warsaw at this time ( Warsaw, Kentucky for instance ), all as a result of sympathy in the United States for the November Uprising in Poland.

Around the turn of the century the Young Poland cultural movement, centered on Galicia and taking advantage of the conducive to liberal expression milieu there, was the source of Poland's finest artistic and literary productions.

Because of the high artistic level of productions, the theater has been recognized as one of the best puppetry arts centers in Poland.

In 1756 the Seven Years ' War compelled the court at Dresden to move to Warsaw, though Hasse himself lived mostly in Italy, travelling to Poland solely to supervise productions of his operas, if at all.

There have also been translated productions of Tanz der Vampire in Estonia, Poland, Hungary and Japan.

In Poland, the Khrushchev Thaw permitted some relaxation of the regime's cultural policies, and productions such as A Generation, Kanal, Ashes and Diamonds, Lotna ( 1954 – 1959 ), all directed by Andrzej Wajda, showed the Polish Film School style.

Upon leaving Elsinore, Hamlet encounters the army of Prince Fortinbras en route to do battle in Poland.

During his second academic year ( Poland was now independent ), he won a scholarship from the Soros Foundation which permitted him to attend the British American Drama Academy for one year, where he performed Hamlet at the end of his stay there.

Throughout history, Poland has been the corridor through which the enemy has passed into Russia.

The Polish song and dance company called Mazowsze, after the region of Poland, where it has its headquarters, opened a three-week engagement at the City Center last night.

Azerbaijan currently has diplomatic relations with 160 countries: Afghanistan, Bahrain, Belarus, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, the People's Republic of China, Denmark, Egypt, France, Georgia, Germany, Hungary, Greece, Iran, Iraq, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, Libya, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Netherlands, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Poland, Qatar, Republic of India, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serbia, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Togo, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.

Belarus is a member of the Trans-European Line ( TEL ), Trans-Asia-Europe Fibre-Optic Line ( TAE ) and has access to the Trans-Siberia Line ( TSL ); three fibre-optic segments provide connectivity to Latvia, Poland, Russia, and Ukraine ; worldwide service is available to Belarus through this infrastructure ; additional analogue lines to Russia ; Intelsat, Eutelsat, and Intersputnik earth stations

Carbamazepine has been sold under the names Biston, Calepsin, Carbatrol, Epitol, Equetro, Finlepsin, Sirtal, Stazepine, Telesmin, Tegretol, EPITAB XR ( of Werrick Pakistan ') Teril, Timonil, Trimonil, Epimaz, Carbama / Carbamaze ( New Zealand ), Amizepin ( Poland ), Carzine ( Kolkata ), Mazetol, Tegrital, Tegrita ( India ), Karbapin ( Serbia ), Hermolepsin ( Sweden ), Degranol ( South Africa ), and Tegretal ( Chile, Germany ).

Celia Heller has called the rigid social segregation and status of Jewish people from Middle Ages through early 20th century in Poland as a closed caste system.

Since the late 1990s, Dublin has experienced a significant level of net immigration, with the greatest numbers coming from the European Union, especially the United Kingdom, Poland and Lithuania.

* Poland has an embassy in Helsinki.

The history of cinema in Poland is almost as long as history of cinematography, and it has universal achievements, even though Polish movies tend to be less commercially available than movies from several other European nations.

Gdańsk itself has a population of 455, 830 ( June 2010 ), making it the largest city in the Pomerania region of Northern Poland.

It has been part of modern Poland since 1945.

Greater Poland Voivodeship covers a total area of, and has a population of almost 3. 4 million.

Since 2005 Kashubian has enjoyed legal protection in Poland as an official regional language.

In Poland, the rough equivalent of this term is " coffee shop revolutionist " meaning a journalist, poet or any other intellectual who criticizes capitalism and free market mechanisms in his / her publications, but has generally weak understanding of economy because of living in the ivory tower of salon life, so he / she has no idea about the real life of the poor.

Latvia has a Consulate General in Russia ; Consulates in Belarus and Russia ; Honorary Consulates General in Australia, Cyprus, India, Israel, and Norway ; and Honorary Consulates in Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belarus, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Cyprus, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Mexico, Moldova, Netherlands, Norway, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, and Venezuela.

The largest and most populous of the Baltic states, Lithuania has of sandy coastline which faces the open Baltic Sea, between Latvia and Poland.

* Poland has an embassy in Vilnius and an honorary consulate in Klaipėda.

Legnica has 104, 178 inhabitants and is the third largest city in the voivodeship ( after Wrocław and Wałbrzych ) and 38th in Poland.

Southern border of Lesser Poland goes along the Carpathian Mountains, and with minor changes, it has not changed for centuries.

Apart from the three historic lands, Lesser Poland has other smaller regions, such as Podhale and Zagłębie Dąbrowskie.

It is also known by its original title, Pieśń Legionów Polskich we Włoszech (, " Song of the Polish Legions in Italy "), or by its incipit, Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła (, " Poland is not yet lost " or " Poland has not yet perished ").