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Ambassador: Liberia Can Be Georgia’s ‘Springboard’ to the African Continent

Liberia’s determined efforts to solidify its ties with Georgia were energized by the mid-May visit of its ambassador to the U.S. who encouraged the state to play a dominant role in establishing a cargo hub for the African continent. George S. W. Patten Sr., a veteran Liberian diplomat who assumed his position in January, met […]

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Books 2018: Greatest Generation’s Greatest Contribution: Enacting Justice for War Crimes

Book: East West Street: On the Origins of “Genocide” and “Crimes Against Humanity” Author: Philippe Sands  Review by: Shelby Grubbs, managing member, Miller & Martin PLLC’s Atlanta office and founding managing director of the Atlanta Center for International Arbitration and Mediation In 1945, at Nuremberg, Germany, an eight-judge tribunal undertook a trial of former officials in […]

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Senior Polish Official Seeks Closer Poland-Georgia Business and Educational Ties

A controversial Polish proposal to outlaw blaming Poland for crimes committed during the Holocaust has strained its relations with Israel which fears that such a law would whitewash crimes that were committed by Poles on Polish soil. Although the Polish government’s proposed legislation hadn’t been announced at the time that Anna Maria Anders, a Polish […]

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Books 2017: The Downside of Tyranny

Book: Travels with Herodotus (Vintage International) Author: Ryszard (Richard) Kapuscinski Review by: Phil Bolton, publisher, Global Atlanta I had never heard of Ryszard (Richard) Kapuscinski before receiving his book “Travels With Herodotus” from my brother-in-law the Christmas of 2016. Imagine a journalist with the writing skills of Graham Greene (or Joseph Conrad), the reportorial skills of […]

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Books 2016: Three Warnings Against Absolute Power

Book(s): Spain in Our Hearts by Adam Hoschchild, The Girl From Krakow by Alex Rosenberg and Winter Is Coming by Garry Kasparov Reviewed by: Jorge Fernandez, vice president of global commerce, Metro Atlanta Chamber I felt there were too many great books to write a single review this year. However, by coincidence I came across […]

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Books 2016: An Intimate but Objective Account of Life in a Concentration Camp

Book: That Was Dachau, 1933–1945 Author: Stanislav Zamecnik Reviewed by: Jim Whitcomb, global finance executive It was a dark, rainy day in July 2015 when I visited the site of the first National Socialist concentration camp, Dachau, which became the model of the Nazi concentration camp system in Germany and beyond.  Poor weather notwithstanding, Dachau was crowded with visitors eager […]

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Mayor Reed Signs Pact With Polish City

Following up on a similar ceremony with Cape Town earlier in the month, Mayor Kasim Reed on Oct. 25 signed an agreement to enhance ties with the Polish city of Lodz. The mayor inked the cooperation pact in his ceremonial office with Lodz Mayor Hanna Zdanowska. The city leaders talked about the importance of business and cultural […]

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Apples to Aerospace: Poland’s Eastern Regions Seek Georgia Partners

On the surface, the regions of eastern Poland seem to offer pretty much the same advantages.  They all tout enticing landscapes, special economic zones and a youthful and multilingual labor force, along with the fact that investors can receive a baseline 50 percent government tax relief when opening new facilities there.  But the character of the five […]

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UPS to Invest $25 Million in Poland Facilities

United Parcel Service Inc. is investing a combined $25 million in two facilities supporting different aspects of its business in Poland. The Atlanta-based package delivery and logistics giant is putting a 130,000-square-foot parcel sorting center in the city of Strykow that will be outfitted with sorting technology allowing it to process 15,000 packages an hour.  In the […]

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Atlanta to Deepen Ties With Poland in 2014

The Metro Atlanta Chamber is considering a trip to Poland next year as part of a growing trade and investment relationship between the Southeast U.S. and the central European country.  A delegation of officials from the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency visited Atlanta last week to continue the conversation.  Ideas ranged from the prospect of simple meetings at European trade fairs to specialized investment seminars […]

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