Poland Calls For August 31 Public Holiday

Sources: Polskie Radio (Warsaw) and Poland bank holidays and public holidays (qppstudio.net). Polish Nobel-prize winning former leader of Solidarity, Lech Walesa, has made a repeated, and last-ditch, call to have August 31, the date of the historic 1980 agreement that legalized the Solidarity trade union, a new annual non-working public holiday in Poland. [full story]