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An End To Compensation Claims?
Following their meeting on 4 November in Krakow, Polish Prime Minister Marek Belka and German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder said that neither the German claims fo... | Current Affairs |
Poland Attracts Plastic Surgery 'Tourism'
A rising number of Germans and others from western Europe are traveling to Poland and other new EU members such as Hungary and Slovakia to pay less for plastic ... | Comment |
Hostage Pleads For Poland To Withdraw Troops
A Polish hostage being held by militants pleaded for her life in a video aired Saturday by Al-Jazeera television, asking Poland to remove its troops from Iraq. ... | Current Affairs |
Polmos Branch Comes Up For Grabs
The initial public offering (IPO) for Polmos Bialystok will be launched in the first half of next year. Poland’s deputy Treasury Minister, Dariusz Witkowski, an... | Business |
Poland Keeps Smiling
There was a famous joke in the communist era that the foot (in Polish "foot" and "rate" are homonyms) should be wrapped up in newspaper for it grows the fastest... | Comment |
Poland Rejects Death Penalty
Polish lawmakers narrowly voted Friday against reintroducing the death penalty following a series of killings that outraged the nation, including the case of a ... | Current Affairs |
Pope to Visit Poland in 2005
Polish-born Pope John Paul II plans to visit his homeland in 2005, the head of the Roman Catholic church in Poland has been quoted as saying.
Asked by journa... | Current Affairs |
Poland Honours Priest Slain in 1984
Poles lit candles and laid flowers on Tuesday at the grave of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, abducted and killed by the communist secret police 20 yea... | Current Affairs |
Chocolate Big Boys Buy Up Brand
Polish confectionery maker Jutrzenka has said it has reached an agreement to buy the Goplana confectionery brand from the Polish unit of Swiss food giant Nestlé... | Business |
Museum Opens For Polish Martyr
A museum dedicated to the life of a pro-Solidarity priest tortured and murdered by Poland's communist secret police opened on Saturday, ahead of the 20th annive... | Current Affairs |
Poland To Reduce Number Of troops In Iraq
Poland said Friday it plans to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq from early next year and will not remain there "an hour longer than is sensible."
Pri... | Current Affairs |
Chopin Anniversary Concerts
Concerts on the 155th Anniversary of Chopin's Death.
The 155th anniversary of Chopin's death falls on October 17th. To Poles, the Romantic composer is a nati... | Art and Culture |
Poland Puffed Up By EU Bank
The European Investment Bank said it had approved loans of 760 million euros (940 million dollars) for investment projects in Poland.
On the occasion of the... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Film Festival
THE 20TH WARSAW INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Warsaw, October 7 - October 18, 2004
According to its organizers, this year's 20th edition of the WARSAW INTE... | Art and Culture |
Polish-led force in Iraq to leave base
The command of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq will move out of a camp that includes ancient Babylonian archaeological sites by year's end, Poland's ... | Current Affairs |
Mayor Fails To Rise To The Occasion
The organisers of a Polish erotic fair vowed to defy a ban by the Warsaw mayor and go ahead in staging a contest for the woman who can have sex with as many men... | Comment |
Wolfowitz Tries to Whip Things Up
US.Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz compared the crimes of Saddam Hussein to the atrocities of the Nazi and Stalinist eras in a speech in Warsaw on Tuesd... | Current Affairs |
Mayor To Ban Sex Championships
The Mayor of Warsaw will ban the "world sexual championships" due to open tomorrow in the Polish capital.
The organisers of the four day "Eroticon" festival ... | Comment |
Polish Mushrooms
Mushrooms abounded-round the fair damsels the young men did throng;
Or vixens, as they're hailed in Lithuanian song.
They symbolize maidenhood, their flesh no... | Comment |
Polish Plan To Pull Out of Iraq
Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising Ends: October 1944
Sixty years ago this week, the Warsaw Uprising, the Polish action to liberate Warsaw from the Nazi occupiers, reached its close. The Rising had originally been ... | History |
Poles Uneasy With Iraq Policy
Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis... | Current Affairs |
Shooting Starts on Pope Film
Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g... | City Focus |
Communist Icon To Be Renamed After Reagan
'Uncle Joe' Stalin has probably turned in his grave so often now that he's given up bothering - the complete overturning of the communist system in Europe must ... | City Focus |
The King of the Tarmac
Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row.
There was barely an... | Comment |
Polish Chivalry: A Survivor's Guide
Casanova's partner in crime the Prince de Ligne (1735-1814) was a considerable match for his Italian friend when it came to the art of seduction. A regular gue... | Comment |
Victory Snatched from the Wisla Boys
OK, the headline may be a slight exaggeration but even the most die-hard Real Madrid fan would be hard pushed to deny that the Poles gave the Spaniards a fair r... | Comment |
Warsaw Uprising Remembered
Boy Scouts from across Poland paid tribute on Thursday to the insurgents who rose up in 1944 against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw, retracing their paths through... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Mayor Calls For German WWII Apology
Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression.
Schroeder should offer hi... | Current Affairs |
The Warsaw Uprising
Sixty years ago this week Poland was poised for one of the most dramatic (and as it turned out tragic) chapters in the war. With the Soviet tanks advancing on W... | History |
Echoes of the Bad Old Days
The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti... | Current Affairs |
Weekend Warriors Re-enact Historic Battle
More than 1,500 knights in shining armour crossed swords on Saturday to re-enact the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the greatest of all medieval clashes, which saw Po... | Comment |
Uprising Museum Unveils Forgotten Lifeline
A replica of a clandestine radio transmitter that kept up Polish fighters' spirits during the Warsaw Uprising 60 years ago was unveiled on Friday, part of this ... | City Focus |
Poland Reassesses Iraq Policy
Poland will keep troops in Iraq at least through the end of 2005, but firmly intends to reduce its presence at the start of next year, the nation's prime minist... | Current Affairs |
Easyjet will fly to Poland
British firm Easyjet announced on Tuesday that they are launching a new wave of expansion in Eastern Europe. Six new routes are planned, including more flights ... | Business |
Painful Anniversary Draws Near
Between July 30th and August 2nd, a number of ceremonies will be held in Warsaw to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the last major battle t... | Current Affairs |
Polish Economy Roars Ahead
Polish economic growth surged ahead by six percent in the first quarter, Economy Minister Jerzy Hausner said on Thursday, in the latest sign of economic recover... | Business |
Poland Rules Out More Iraq Troops
Poland has ruled out sending more troops to Iraq, outgoing Prime Minister Lezsek Miller said today.
"We rule out increasing our (Iraq) contingent," Miller to... | Current Affairs |
Polish Troops in Kerbala Skirmish
Polish troops reportedly killed a leader of the Shia uprising in the Iraqi city of Kerbala today, as the military commander of the US-led coalition vowed to "de... | Current Affairs |
Corruption Scandal Winds Up
A year-long parliamentary probe of high-level corruption exonerated Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller and other officials in his left-wing administration on M... | Current Affairs |
Winds of Change
Polish voters frustrated with economic austerity plans and sleaze are turning to a populist party led by a euro-sceptic pig farmer according to an opinion poll ... | Current Affairs |
Polanski goes Dickens
Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski says his next film will be based on Charles Dickens' classic novel "Oliver Twist".
Shooting is scheduled to begin in th... | Art and Culture |
Attack on Polish Base in Baghdad
At least 13 Iraqis were killed, and many civilians and troops injured, in an apparent suicide bomb attack by insurgents in Hilla today.
The attack happened i... | Current Affairs |
Polanski and the Pianist
During the war, the Nazi regime forced Jews into ghettos throughout occupied Poland, the most well-known being those in Warsaw, Cracow and Lodz. Conditions were... | Art and Culture |
Divers Probed for Giving Fish Champagne
Three Polish divers faced a police investigation this Thursday for possible illegal fishing and animal abuse after a news photo showed them plying a freshly cau... | Comment |
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