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POLAND: About 200 coal-miners began blocking railway tracks on the Russian border yesterday in protest at cheap coal imports which they consider a threat to their jobs.

In response, the country’s centre-left opposition called on new Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz to hold an urgent debate on the mining industry.

Poland is committed to coal, but falling exports and cheaper imports from Russia’s Kaliningrad pose economic difficulties.

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