On his first foreign trip as Polish president, Bronislaw Komorowski said Thursday after holding talks with French President Nicolas Sarkozy in Paris that he wanted to strengthen relations with France and Germany by reviving the Weimar Triangle, which groups the three countries.

Moscow is preparing to hand Warsaw hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence about the April crash of the Polish president’s plane, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said Thursday at a press conference in Warsaw with his visiting Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov.

The budget deficit at the end of this year will likely total PLN 48.3 billion, rather than the PLN 52.2 billion the government has previously forecast, deputy Finance Minister Hanna Majszczyk told the PAP news agency.

Only 46% of Poles say they will definitely vote in local government elections this fall, according to a survey by the CBOS polling agency.

The opposition Law And Justice (PiS) party is likely to choose Euro deputy and former Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro as its candidate for the mayor of Warsaw in local elections this fall, the Polska daily reported.

The volatility of the Polish zloty against the euro decreased in August for the second consecutive month, the finance ministry said in a report on euro convergence.

Listed real estate developer Polnord expects its H2 results to be better than for the first six months, and its 2011 results to improve on this year's figures thanks to a growing share of the commercial segment, CEO Wojciech Ciurzynski told TVN CNBC.

Listed footwear retailer NG2 notched up PLN 80.8 million in group revenues in August, up 10.7% y/y, the company said.

Millennium analysts hiked their recommendation for Media group Agora from “reduce” to “accumulate” and raised the target price from PLN 18.9 to PLN 27.6 a share.

Poles had run up debts of PLN 21.97 billion at the end of August, up 15% since the end of May, according to the InfoMonitor agency.

A painting of former Polish communist dictator Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski smoking pot is one of the more provocative items at an exhibition at the Warsaw Museum of Modern Art that focuses on how people reacted to the martial law period in Poland in the 1980s.

An exhibition of work by Polish painter Slawomir Toman is on display at the Farbiarnia Art Gallery in Warsaw until Sept. 25.