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Many years of work and planning came to fruition over the past weekend when the magnificent European Solidarity Centre or ECS opened its doors to the public for the first time. The opening coincided with the 34th anniversary of the signing of the August Accords in the Gdansk Shipyards in 1980.

A second Polish satellite was successfully launched yesterday carrying the name of Gdansk’s most famous son Jan Heweliusz as well as emblems from the city of Gdansk.

How can EU policy meet the needs of cities? The EU is asking this question, because the city is essential in meeting the economic, social and environmental challenges facing Europe. There is a public consultation which will run until 26 September 2014 and you as an EU citizen are invited to take part.

Polish ports are becoming the most important ports on the Baltic Sea thanks to the investment which has taken place in the last couple of decades - that’s the view of the head of the Department of Economic Policy at the University of Gdansk, Professor Henryk Ćwikliński, who described the scale and rate of development as a phenomenon. “The current and future investments make a huge impression and Polish ports are becoming the most important on the Baltic before our very eyes”.

A number of the local governments in the Gdansk Metropolitan Area have been placed extremely highly in the latest rankings of their performance by the Wspolnota magazine, with Gdansk itself actually coming out top of the near 2,500 local governments assessed.

The Senate of the Republic of Poland have approved an amendment from Senator Professor Edmund Wittbrodt to base the Polish Space Agency in Gdansk. The agency, which is known as POLSA (POLish Space Agency) was created in late 2013 after Poland joined the European Space Agency (ESA) programme IN 2012.