News & Views Directory 10

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Putin-Schroeder Pact!

Sept.09.2005

A good deal of the misery in Poland's past can be traced to its location between Germany and Russia. These days, people talk an awful lot about Globalization an...

Poland On Ukrainian Crisis

Sept.9.2005

President Aleksander Kwasniewski is convinced that the sacking of the Ukrainian government will not affect relations between Warsaw and Kiev. The developments i...

Pole Is Oldest European at 118

Sept.9.2005

118 year old Jozef Piotrowski is the oldest Pole and the oldest European. Born in 1887, he is still in fairly good form, though he cannot walk. He has never smo...

Twins Slip In Struggle For Votes

Sept.9.2005

They were the stars of a popular movie as children but as adult conservative politicians, Poland's identical twins Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski seem eternally co...

Communist Chief May Yet Be Grilled

Aug.9.2005

The Silesian Office of The National Remembrance Institute is considering charging former communist ruler general Wojciech Jaruzelski with illegal introduction o...

Polish President Speaks Up!

Sep.06.2005

Plans for a trans-Baltic oil pipeline from russia to Germany have been in the works for quite a while. Since the pipeline would create an pathway that excluded ...

Chopin Music Festival

Sept.07.2005

Summertime always brings plenty of action to the capital city, and this month is no exception. Alongside the usual weekly concerts and events, you’ll have...

Poles Missing After Hurricane

Sept.06.2005

22 Poles are still missing after hurricane Katrina struck the US southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama a week ago, the Polish Foreign Ministry h...

Yushchenko Cancels Visit

Sept.6.2005

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has cancelled his visit to Poland planned for September 7-9, Itar-Tass news agency reports. Yushchenko was to present his ...

Lepper Courts Chinese Communists

Sept.5.2005

Farmers’ Self Defence has invited a delegation of the Chinese Leaque of Communist Youth for a series of meetings and discussions aimed at establishing a long-te...

New German Consul Assaulted

Sept.5.2005

Police in Gdansk is continuing its search for the three youths who assaulted the German consul in the city yesterday. Ute Minke-Koenig assumed her post only...

Zanussi Flies Celluloid Flag

Sept.5.2005

'Persona Non Grata', a feature by the internationally-acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, has been shown at the Venice Film Festival. It is Poland’s of...

Pope Was Key To Victory

Sept.5.2005

Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician who helped topple Poland's communist regime by founding the Solidarity movement in 1980, credited the late Pope John Paul ...

Poland Sends Condolences To US

Sept.2.2005

Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski sent a letter of condolences to his American counterpart G. W. Bush in which he talked of being “shocked by the enormity...

World Salutes Solidarity

Sept.1.2005

World leaders paid tribute to Solidarity on Wednesday, saying the labor movement launched 25 years ago in the Gdansk shipyards was a catalyst for some of the mo...

Walesa Hails Freedom

Aug.30.2005

Poland's Solidarity hero Lech Walesa has told his countrymen that any price, including the pain accompanying economic reforms, was worth paying for the freedom ...

President Unlikely To Testify

Aug.30.2005

The parliamentary committee investigating the privatisation of Poland’s oil giant Orlen has called on president Aleksander Kwasniewski to testify. The motion to...

Poland Blanks Belarusian Choice

Aug.29.2005

Poland will not recognise newly elected leaders of a Polish ethnic organisation in Belarus because they were installed after pressure from President Alexander L...

Black Madonna Dazzles Anew

Aug.29.2005

Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics gathered at Poland's holiest shrine Friday to pray as the revered Black Madonna of Czestochowa icon was given a new coverin...

Lodz Ghetto Remembered

Aug.29.2005

Events commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz began in that central Polish city today. A mass in the intention of th...

Solidarity Celebrations Set To Start

Aug.30.2005

The main events marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity – the first free trade union in a communist bloc – will be held this week in Warsaw and Gdansk, the u...

Activists Detained in Poland

Aug.27.2005

Belarussian police detained two ethnic Polish activists on Friday before a meeting intended to entrench rival leaders at the helm of a Polish association who wo...

Coca Cola Calls Time

Aug.25.2005

Beverage producer Coca-Cola will pull its sodas out of Polish elementary schools and replace them with bottled water and fruit juices due to growing public conc...

Greek Bank Branches Into Poland

Aug.24

Greece's third biggest bank, EFG Eurobank Ergasias, plans to enter Poland and open as many as 200 branches, the Greek press reports. Polish Eurobank, control...

Communist Leader Apologizes To Czechs

Aug.22.2005

Former Polish President General Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sunday apologised for the first time for ordering Polish troops to take part in the Moscow-led crackdown ...

Polish Ace In Tragic Accident

Aug.22.2005

General Jacek Bartoszcze, the chief of Poland's air force, died in the crash of a two-seater plane on Saturday, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "An inqu...

Early unveiling for Depeche Mode!

Aug.19.2005

The recording industry, that mom and pop enterprise with a heart of gold, has just made a big arrest in Poland. Somewhere in between exploiting the sex appeal ...

Ukraine and Poland Jack Up Bid

Aug.19.2005

Ukraine and Poland agreed on Thursday to press on with a joint bid to stage the 2012 European championship and pledged high-level support in the two east Europe...

Depeche Fan A Wanted Man

Aug.19.2005

Police in Poland have arrested a Polish individual alleged to have accessed a secure pre-release video copy of the new Depeche Mode single Precious and made it ...

Poland Sells Copters To New Iraq

Aug.19.2005

Poland has agreed to overhaul 24 aging Soviet military helicopters sold to Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported Thursday. Polish defense ministry officials sa...

In Defense of Polish Migrants

Aug.14.2002

After having been the target of political manipulation and fear mongering for as long as they have existed, Polish Migrant workers are finally getting some help...

Presidents Convene In Crimea

Aug.19.2005

President Aleksander Kwasniewski arrived in the Crimean peninsula where he is expected to meet the presidents of Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania. The meeting ...

Polish To Be Top Gun

Aug.18.2005

Prime Minister Marek Belka believes that Poland's participation in air space patrols over the Baltic states attests to the fact that the Polish air force achiev...

Poles Boot To Victory

Aug.19.2005

Substitute Grzegorz Rasiak scored twice Wednesday to lead Poland to a 3-2 win over Israel to win the Valery Lobanovsky exhibition tournament. Poland, which b...

Amber Heist At Border

Aug.17.2005

An attempted customs deception of half a million euros has been prevented by Polish officers on the Polish-Russian checkpoint at Gronowo. A Russian citizen t...

Berlin Centre Ruffles Feathers

Aug.17.2005

German opposition leader and chancellor candidate Angela Merkel met with Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski Tuesday where she discussed topics of bilateral ...

Poland Reach Soccer Final

Aug.17.2005

Poland and Israel have reached the final of the four-team Valery Lobanovsky tournament after Poland beat Serbia 3-2 on Monday and Israel beat hosts Ukraine on p...

All Creatures Great And Small

Aug.17.2005

Horses, cows, dogs, rabbits and even honey bees have been blessed in the small town of Mikstat, western Poland, today in accordance with a 300 year old traditio...

Polish Ultimate Champs

Aug.15.2005

At the recent "Poznan Unleashed" Ultimate tournament, held in Poznan, Poland, two Polish ultimate frisbee teams faced one another in a tournament-style match. ...

Poland Calls For Russian Calm

Aug.16.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski urged an improvement in relations with Russia on Monday and called on Poles to avoid "senseless stereotypes". Relatio...

Banned Priest Grabs Limelight

Aug.16.2005

A Polish priest who was once banned from preaching for anti-Semitic remarks lashed out on Sunday at laws made by "Jewish bankers", during celebrations of the 25...

Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!

Aug.14.2005

Solidarity's iconic figure-head, Lech Walesa, has recently made public his desire for a democratized Belarus. Specifically, Walesa mentioned that a 'revolution...

Poles Complain About Auschwitz Video

Aug.12.2005

Dutch prosecutors will launch an investigation into a spoof video portraying the Auschwitz Nazi death camp as a techno party to decide whether to take action ag...

This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!

Aug.10.2005

Belarussian information minister thinks that the idea to install in Poland a radio station broadcasting for Belarus is an idea of Polish trouble stirring politi...

Second Polish Diplomat Attacked

Aug.10.2005

A Polish diplomat was beaten up in Moscow today. According to the Russian ITAR TASR agency the victim is the second secretary of the embassy. The man was assaul...

Politician Heads For Clink

Aug.10.2005

The maverick farmers’ Self-Defense party leader Andrzej Lepper has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and suspended for 5 years for slandering five politicians...

Solidarity Concert To Draw Thousands

Aug.10.2005

Tickets for Jean Michel Jarre’s concert, marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity, the communist bloc’s first free trade union, have almost sold out. The ...

Solidarity In The Big Apple

Aug.9.2005

A special exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity will be placed in Union Square – one of the busiest squares in NYC. It will b...

Polish Diplomat Assaulted

Aug.9.2005

An official at the Polish Embassy in Moscow was injured in an attack near the building. Interfax News Agency reports that Andrzej Uriadko was being treated i...

Pole Wins Bronze

Aug.9.2005

Polish hammer thrower Szymon Ziolkowski has won bronze at the World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. With a throw of 79.35 m, Ziolkowski, Olympic champio...

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