WARSAW (Reuters) – Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk began talks on forming a new coalition government Monday after his center-right Civic Platform became the first party to win a second consecutive term since the fall of communism in 1989.

Tusk met President Bronislaw Komorowski and the head of the Peasants’ Party, his coalition partner for the last four years, after his pro-business party won 39 percent of the vote in Sunday’s election but fell short of an absolute majority.

WARSAW, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Centre-right leader Donald Tusk
has become the first Polish prime minister since the fall of
communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term following his
Civic Platform’s election victory, nearly complete results
showed on Monday.

Investors hailed the outcome as a guarantee of political and
economic stability in the European Union’s largest eastern
member in turbulent times, but Fitch ratings agency urged Warsaw
to move swiftly to put its public finances in order.

WARSAW, Oct 10 (Reuters) – Centre-right leader Donald Tusk
has become the first Polish prime minister since the fall of
communism in 1989 to win a second consecutive term following his
Civic Platform’s election victory, nearly complete results
showed on Monday.

With 93 percent of the votes counted, Tusk’s pro-business
party had 39 percent of the votes in Sunday’s election. Its main
rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist-conservative Law and
Justice party, trailed on 30 percent.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism more than two decades ago to rule for a second consecutive term after his center-right Civic Platform trounced rivals in an election, cheering the markets.

With 64 percent of the votes counted, Tusk’s pro-business party had won 37.5 percent of votes in Sunday’s election, short of an absolute majority but far ahead of Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party on 30.6 percent.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Donald Tusk will be the first Polish prime minister since the fall of communism in 1989 to rule for two successive terms after his center-right Civic Platform trounced its rivals in a parliamentary election.

An exit poll showed Tusk’s pro-business party had won nearly 40 percent of votes in Sunday’s election, short of an absolute majority but far ahead of Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party on just over 30 percent.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Victory for Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s ruling center-right Civic Platform (PO) in Sunday’s election brings relief to jittery financial markets but they will soon demand action on cutting the budget deficit and debt.

Tusk’s PO won nearly 40 percent of the vote, exit polls showed, many more than its nearest rival, Jaroslaw Kaczynski’s nationalist-conservative Law and Justice party, and is expected to renew its coalition with the small Peasants’ Party.

WARSAW (Reuters) – Mateusz Duszynski is the kind of a young, educated professional whose support Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s pro-European, market-oriented Civic Platform (PO) should be able to count on in its bid for another four years in power.

But Duszynski, 31, says he will vote on October 9 for the centrist PO’s arch-rival, the more conservative and nationalist-minded Law and Justice (PiS) party of Jaroslaw Kaczynski.

WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) – EU finance ministers broke no new ground in dealing with the euro zone debt crisis in discussions over the weekend, instead absorbing some ideas and rejecting others and taking stock of progress on agreed steps.

Ministers and central bank governors from the 17 countries using the euro and the broader 27-nation European Union met on Friday and Saturday in the Polish city of Wroclaw to discuss Europe’s slowing economic growth and progress in beefing up euro zone defenses against the sovereign debt crisis.

WROCLAW, Poland (Reuters) – EU finance ministers broke no new ground in dealing with the euro zone debt crisis in discussions over the weekend, instead absorbing some ideas and rejecting others and taking stock of progress on agreed steps.

Ministers and central bank governors from the 17 countries using the euro and the broader 27-nation European Union met on Friday and Saturday in the Polish city of Wroclaw to discuss Europe’s slowing economic growth and progress in beefing up euro zone defenses against the sovereign debt crisis.

LONDON (Reuters) – From bizarre claims about the use of “mercenaries” to tongue-in-cheek travel advisories, countries long used to Western criticism of their own human rights records are relishing Britain’s embarrassment over the riots sweeping its cities.

With its long colonial past and its carefully nurtured self-image as the mother of parliamentary democracy and fair play, Britain is especially vulnerable to charges of hypocrisy and double standards.