Warsaw - A Polish bus company is telling the city of Gdansk to pay up after citing 10,000 zloty (3,520 dollars) in losses resulting from traffic jams delaying the company's operations, the daily Wyborcza reported on Thursday.

Buses were stuck in traffic for up to an hour and a half during road renovations, Planetobus owner Jakub Sachse told the daily, and work was delayed for two months.

"I want to make officials realize that there are also social costs," Sachse said. "I hope that with upcoming large-scale renovations, one of the criteria for picking a bid won't be the lowest price but also quick completion time."

Warsaw - Polish airline LOT could boost its ties with German carrier Lufthansa after ending the year up to 200 million zlotys (70 million dollars) in the red, Puls Biznesu reported on Thursday.

"The sector is plunging into a recession. Small carriers are feeling it the most. Acquisitions are slowly marginalizing the role of alliances," the head of PLL LOT, Dariusz Nowak, told the daily.

Nowak said Lufthansa is now the most active, and cited its interest in privatizing SAS Scandinavian Airlines.

Warsaw - Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appealed to the opposition Wednesday to work towards a change in the constitution that would enable Poland to enter the eurozone by 2012.

Poland would need to alter its constitution to allow the European Central Bank to be a monetary authority in the country. Currently the constitution gives the National Bank sole power to distribute money

Tusk has been working to sway Poland's euro-sceptic Law and Justice party, whose support is needed to change the constitution.

Warsaw - Former head of the Polish football federation (PZPN) Michal Listkiewicz took the stand on Tuesday as a witness in an ongoing investigation into corruption in the sport.

Listkiewicz said he'd answered "honestly" after about an hour on the stand in a Wroclaw court. He did not give details about the proceedings.

"I answered all the questions honestly and frankly, because I'm truthful," Listkiewicz said.

The Polish football federation voted in Grzegorz Lato in October as its new head, as Listkiewicz stepped down amid the investigation.

Warsaw - Polish President Lech Kaczynski vetoed a bill on Monday that would cut early retirement for 750,000 people amid pressure from trade unions.

The lower house of parliament approved the bill last month, which would reduce the number of people eligible for early pensions from more than 1 million to some 250,000.

"On the basis of arbitrary criteria ... for some it gives early pensions while not for others," Kaczynski said, calling the bill "unjust."

Warsaw - Prime Minister Donald Tusk launched talks Tuesday with German Chancellor Angela Merkel on a European Union climate package which faces criticism from coal-reliant Poland.

Tusk and Merkel were also expected to discuss an upcoming EU summit in Brussels, and a Polish-Swedish proposal that calls for stronger EU ties with former Soviet bloc nations like Georgia.

Merkel's visit to Warsaw was to include talks on the financial crisis and Polish-German relations, Tusk's top aide told the Polish Press Agency.