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Turkey Stung By Polish Stance

April.29.2005

The Turkish parliament have passed a resolution canceling meetings with the Turkish-Polish friendship group, the visit of the Commission on Foreign Affairs of t...

Alleged Collaborator Revealed

April.28.2005

A Polish priest at the Vatican was accused Wednesday of collaborating with the communist-era secret police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was i...

Premier Warns Of French Veto

April.28.2005

Poland would bear the burden of a French "no" vote to the EU constitution, Prime Minister Marek Belka said Wednesday, urging his compatriots to "cross your fing...

No Frills But Some Thrills

April.27.2005

German no-frills airline DauAir offered their passengers some rather unusual entertainment on their virgin flight to Poland this Monday. All seemed to be go...

New Pope Learns Polish

April.27.2005

Unofficial sources from the Vatican claim that pope Benedict XVI learns Polish pronounciation. The pontiff intends to say a few words to Polish pilgrims on ...

Poles Abroad

April.27.2005

One year after Poland joined the European Union, 65,000 Poles have left the central European country to work in other member states, Polish foreign ministry off...

Lubelskie: Untouched By EU Magic

April.27.2005

In a valley of southeastern Poland, the town of Rudnik's pot-holed roads, widespread unemployment and subsistence farmers provide a stark contrast to the image ...

Polish Journalists Appeal To Russia

April.25.2005

The Association of Polish Journalists has appealed to their Russian counterparts to respect historical truth. The association has sent a letter to the Russian ...

Poland Challenges EU Cuts

April.25.2005

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...

Poles Seek To Honour John Paul

April.25.2005

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...

Election Polls A Close Run Thing

April.25.2005

If parliamentary elections were held presently, the rightist Law & Justice (PiS) would top popularity ratings, replacing the leading centrist Civic Platform (PO...

US Journalist Harassed

April.25.2005

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...

eBay Launches In Poland

April.25.2005

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...

Church Caught In Informer Row

April.22.2005

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...

Ankara Criticizes Polish Stance

April.22.2005

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...

Walesa Champions Armenian Plight

April.22.2005

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 ...

Belarusian President Lambasts Poland

April.21.2005

Poland’s parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has said that the Belarussian president’s attacks on Polish diplomats are scandalous and groundless. ...

Poland Invites New Pope

April.21.2005

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...

Interest In EU Work Wanes

April.21.2005

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...

Prime Real Estate Investments

Apr.21.2005

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...

Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary

April.20.2005

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 ...

Parliament Recognizes Armenian Tragedy

April.20.2005

Yesterday the Polish Sejm unanimously passed a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The document was initiated by the Sejm Presidium. “The remembrance of th...

Poland Hails New Pope

April.20.2005

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...

Film Producer Behind Bars

April.19.2005

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 ...

John Paul's Seal Is Broken

April.18.2005

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...

1 Million Dollars Cocaine Turns To Sugar

April.18.2005

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...

Wajda To Make Katyn Film

April.18.2005

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...

Conclave Starts In Rome

April.18.2005

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...

Kwasniewski - Next UN Secretary General?

Apr.18.2005

President Aleksander Kwasniewksi is thinking of running for UN Secretary General. Polish opposition parties are ready to support him in this. “If th...

Pope Film Premiere

April.15.2005

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...

Poles Picket Russian Embassy

April.17.2005

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...

The Art of Earning

Apr.15.2005

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...

Warsaw's Newest Resident

Apr.14.2005

Warsaw’s newest resident arrived Tuesday in a large crate. His arrival attracted the curiosity of people picnicking nearby, who quickly gathered around...

Exotic Shops Are In The Firing Line

April.13.2005

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...

Katyn Crime Casts Shadow

April.13.2005

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...

A Polish Ukrainian Alliance

April.13.2005

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...

Pope Buried in St. Peter’s Crypt

Apr.08.2005

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...

A New Saint?

Apr.11.2005

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...

World Leaders Visit Rome

Apr.07.2005

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...

Rome Protests

Apr.06.2005

Crowded buses, horrible traffic jams, increasing trash. This situation is already bothering many inhabitants of Rome, especially those living near the Vatic...

Pope John Paul II: Online Comments from Poles

Apr.06.2005

How do you remember John Paul II? A great person has passed on, one who fought for peace and understanding in the world. –korea_abc Father, I grew up d...

Farewell, Father

Apr.04.2005

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. ...

Pope honoured by crowd of thousands

Apr.03.2005

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...

Poland's Pope passes away

Apr.02.2005

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 ...

Pope John Paul II passes, Varsovians mourn

Apr.03.2005

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...

Pope's Condition Worsens

Mar.31.2005

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...

Controversial New Memorial

Mar.31.2005

Recently, President Ilham Alijew of Azerbaijan visited with Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Poland is interested in projects Azerbaijan has presented ...

Fall Of Media Mogul

March.31.2005

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...

The Value of Junk Metal

Mar.30.2005

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 ...

Debt Solution Approved

March.30.2005

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...

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