Palace of Culture and borders

"Our Interior Minister, Ryszard Kalisz, travelled all over the European Union to get the approval from other members. Most of them agree," said a ministry spokesman. The new agency will be responsible for the control of the EU's external borders. Poland, the largest post-communist state in the EU, has a 1,200 km border with Belarus, Ukraine and Russia. It's thought Warsaw's highest building, the Soviet-style neo-gothic skyscraper donated to the country by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin in the 1950s, may become the headquarters for the agency. (Reuters) J.T.