London - Polish artist Miroslaw Balka has been chosen to create the next installation to fill the large turbine hall entrance of the Tate Modern art gallery in London, the Tate said Friday.

Balka is the 10th artist to receive a commission, sponsored by Unilever, to create an artwork for temporary exhibition in the vast hall of the gallery, a former power station.

His work will be unveiled on October 12 and will be on show until April 5, 2010.

It will replace a current display of bunk beds and giant sculptures by French artist Dominique Gonzales-Foerster.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk was to meet with his cabinet ministers Friday on slashing government spending, amid forecasts of slowing economic growth and rising inflation.

Tusk asked ministries for a plan that would cut spending by some 17 billion zloty (5.15 billion dollars,) the Polish Press Agency PAP reported, and would amount to a 10 per cent cut in expenses for the first half of 2009.

Wroclaw, Poland  - The Czech presidency of the European Union Wednesday backed Ukraine's ambitions to join the 27-member bloc, despite Kiev's gas row with Moscow that led to a two-week shutdown of EU-bound Russian natural gas deliveries via Ukraine.

Speaking after meeting the Polish and Ukrainian presidents in the Polish city of Wroclaw, Czech Prime Minister Mirek Topolanek said he would persuade EU leaders that Ukraine's integration into the EU and NATO was "in the fundamental interest" of the bloc.

Warsaw - Best known for films heavy in history and politics, Polish director Andrzej Wajda says his film that it is to premiere at this year's Berlin Film Festival is a goodbye to that genre, and to the past.

Sweet Rush (Tatarak), which will have its world premiere in Berlin, is the 38th film from the director who has chronicled his country's painful Nazi occupation and communist past.

Warsaw - Polish member of parliament Janusz Palikot resigned Tuesday as head of the Friendly State commission after insulting a former opposition minister, local media reported.

His party had recommended that Palikot be taken off the commission after he accused Grazyna Gesicka of "prostitution" over the former minister's alleged poor management of European Union funds for Poland.

Palikot said he did not agree with the recommendation, but did not want to put fellow party members in an "awkward situation."