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Poland Challenges EU Cuts
Poland does not agree to the proposed cuts of expenditures for the development of the poorest EU regions.
The plan was put forward by Luxembourg which holds... | Current Affairs |
Poles Seek To Honour John Paul
Poland's capital wants to honour Pope John Paul II by opening an institute focusing on his life and teachings, to be built on the site of his triumphal 1979 ret... | Current Affairs |
Election Polls A Close Run Thing
If parliamentary elections were held presently, the rightist Law & Justice (PiS) would top popularity ratings, replacing the leading centrist Civic Platform (PO... | Current Affairs |
US Journalist Harassed
The World Press Freedom Committee made a Fund Against Censorship grant to Poland-based US journalist Preston Smith, a reporter for the English-language Poland M... | Current Affairs |
eBay Launches In Poland
Internet auction company eBay Inc. says it's starting a new Web site in Poland where buyers and sellers can meet and trade.
The service aims to build a local... | Business |
Church Caught In Informer Row
An historian from the Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance sparked a storm of controversy yesterday when he declared that he had studied docum... | Current Affairs |
Ankara Criticizes Polish Stance
Turkey has sharply criticised Poland for acknowledging the killing of thousands of Armenians by Turks between 1915 and 1917 as genocide.
Earlier this week P... | Current Affairs |
Walesa Champions Armenian Plight
Lech Walesa, Poland’s former president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, made on Thursday an emotional case for the recognition by Turkey of the 1915 genocide of ... | Current Affairs |
Belarusian President Lambasts Poland
Poland’s parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has said that the Belarussian president’s attacks on Polish diplomats are scandalous and groundless.
... | Current Affairs |
Poland Invites New Pope
Poland’s state and church authorities have extended an invitation to Pope Bendict XVI to visit Poland, hoping that it will be one of his first pilgrimages, pres... | Current Affairs |
Interest In EU Work Wanes
The interest of Poles in working in European Union countries is smaller now than it was a year ago, before Poland entered the bloc.
According to a survey ca... | Current Affairs |
Prime Real Estate Investments
Although the latest members of the European Union represent all-new and unknown interests to investors, Warsaw already stands out as a positive option. The A... | Business |
Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary
A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising warned the world Tuesday not to forget Polish Jews' historic resistance to their Nazi conquerors on the 62nd anniversary ... | Current Affairs |
Parliament Recognizes Armenian Tragedy
Yesterday the Polish Sejm unanimously passed a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The document was initiated by the Sejm Presidium.
“The remembrance of th... | Comment |
Poland Hails New Pope
Still grieving for their native son John Paul II, people in Krakow on Tuesday expressed happiness and hope at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germa... | Current Affairs |
Film Producer Behind Bars
A Warsaw court ruled on Monday that the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" must immediately start serving his two-year prison term ... | Comment |
John Paul's Seal Is Broken
Roman Catholic cardinals destroyed the late Pope John Paul's ring and seal in a symbolic end to his authority before they seclude themselves from the world to e... | Current Affairs |
1 Million Dollars Cocaine Turns To Sugar
Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity... | Comment |
Wajda To Make Katyn Film
Polish film director Andrzej Wajda is planning to film a movie about the World War II Katyn massacre, the state-run news agency TASR reported.
"It's a compl... | Art and Culture |
Conclave Starts In Rome
In a historic gathering steeped in intrigue, cardinals from six continents assembled Monday for their first conclave of the new millennium to elect a pope who w... | Current Affairs |
Kwasniewski - Next UN Secretary General?
President Aleksander Kwasniewksi is thinking of running for UN Secretary General. Polish opposition parties are ready to support him in this.
“If th... | Current Affairs |
Pope Film Premiere
Italian film critics got their first viewing Thursday of a new miniseries about Pope John Paul II that focuses on the pontiff's early years, when his native Pol... | Art and Culture |
Poles Picket Russian Embassy
Relatives of some of the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war murdered by Soviet forces in 1940 picketed the Russian Embassy in Warsaw Wednesday, demanding Moscow apo... | Current Affairs |
The Art of Earning
Looking for a great souvenir from Warsaw to take back with you? Why not a candle in the shape of the Palace of Culture and Science?
The Awangarda Foun... | City Focus |
Warsaw's Newest Resident
Warsaw’s newest resident arrived Tuesday in a large crate. His arrival attracted the curiosity of people picnicking nearby, who quickly gathered around... | City Focus |
Exotic Shops Are In The Firing Line
As an unfortunate quirk of fate would have it, John Paul II Avenue (which runs right through the heart of the Polish capital) is a high holy place for sex shop... | Current Affairs |
Katyn Crime Casts Shadow
On this day in 1943, the Nazi regime released news of the discovery of mass graves in the West Russian forest of Katyn. The victims were Polish soldiers, and ea... | History |
A Polish Ukrainian Alliance
Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschchenko was greeted with a standing ovation yesterday when he arrived for a speech at Warsaw University.
It was some time befo... | Current Affairs |
Pope Buried in St. Peter’s Crypt
Crowds gathered in and around St. Peter’s Square for the funeral of Pope John Paul II Friday morning. Among them, 200 world leaders. Millions around t... | Current Affairs |
A New Saint?
It has been raining non stop since the body of Pope John Paul II was laid to rest in St. Peter’s crypt. The heavens are still mourning. Most of the pilg... | Current Affairs |
World Leaders Visit Rome
The masses of people waiting in line to catch a last glimpse of the Pope were held back as the US delegates had a moment to pay their respects. President Geo... | Current Affairs |
Rome Protests
Crowded buses, horrible traffic jams, increasing trash.
This situation is already bothering many inhabitants of Rome, especially those living near the Vatic... | Comment |
Farewell, Father
Pope John Paul II was with us when we fought for freedom and independence, when communism was trying to shut us in. He was with us when we finally broke free. ... | Comment |
Pope honoured by crowd of thousands
Tens of thousands of mourners in St Peter's Square in Rome are attending an open-air Mass in honour of Pope John Paul II, who has died at 84. Up to 100,000 peop... | Comment |
Poland's Pope passes away
Pope John Paul II passed away on Saturday night. Poles came out onto the streets to mourn his death, turning the streets of towns and cities across the country ... | Comment |
Pope John Paul II passes, Varsovians mourn
Saturday night, at 10:00 PM, the metro has stopped. A moment of silence – passengers bow their heads, a woman reaches into her purse for a tissue. Walking out... | Comment |
Pope's Condition Worsens
Late Thursday night, light in the Pope’s apartment overlooking St. Peter’s Square became a beacon to the world, announcing something was not right... | Current Affairs |
Controversial New Memorial
Recently, President Ilham Alijew of Azerbaijan visited with Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Poland is interested in projects Azerbaijan has presented ... | City Focus |
Fall Of Media Mogul
A Warsaw court has ruled that Polish film producer Lew Rywin must start serving his two year prison term later this month. Rywin was convicted of fraud last yea... | Current Affairs |
The Value of Junk Metal
After the EU gates opened to Poland, roughly 800,000 old cars were driven in. Over one-third of the cars on Polish roads today are over 15 years old. What we ... | Business |
Debt Solution Approved
Poland's government approved an early buyback of a large chunk of communist-era debt to a group of six countries in the Paris Club, a government official said T... | Comment |
Smigus Dingus
The sun may well shine on Easter Monday, but even if this is so, we warmly recommend that ladies of a faint-hearted disposition carry an umbrella about their pe... | Comment |
Russians Respond To Roundabout Rap
In riposte to the Warsaw city authorities announcement that they will name a roundabout after fallen Chechen leader Dzhokhar Dudayev, Moscow has announced plans... | Current Affairs |
Polish Journalists Released
Belarusian authorities have released three Polish journalists who were briefly detained for lacking proper media credentials.
One of the reporters, Marcin Sm... | Current Affairs |
Alleged Drug Ring Broken
Six Polish and Kurdish men were charged Monday with smuggling amphetamines to Norway in specially built car batteries.
"I can confirm that we have arrested s... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Spring
A few years ago, Warsaw was famous - or rather infamous - for being one of the least attractive of Eastern Europe's destinations. Much as we love the place, it ... | City Focus |
Roundabout Rumpus
Russia on Monday accused the Warsaw city council of supporting international terrorism by naming a roundabout after a Chechen rebel leader.
"It is difficul... | Current Affairs |
Nuclear Poland
Poland might be see nuclear power facilities on the horizon in the next few years. With the EU concerned with air pollution and wanting to decrease CO2 emissio... | Current Affairs |
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