News & Views Directory 17

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More Vodka Pickings

Jan.14.2005

Having announced yesterday that the privatisation process of Polmos Bialystok is underway, Poland’s Treasury Ministry has said that a further five distillers wi...

Prince Rules Out Poland Visit

Jan.14.2005

Britain's Prince Harry has ruled out visiting Auschwitz as atonement for wearing a Nazi uniform at a party just two weeks before the 60th anniversary of the dea...

Thaw in Paris-Warsaw Relations

Jan.14.2005

Visiting French Foreign Minister Michel Barnier said Thursday he saw reasons for closer ties between his country and Poland as he inaugurated the renovated Fren...

Poland OKs Shootdown Of Hijacked Planes

Jan..14.2005

A new Polish law gives authorities the power to order hijacked airliners shot down — a post-Sept. 11 measure that underscores growing terrorism concerns in Euro...

Vodka Veteran Draws Major Interest

Jan.13.2005

The Polish privatisation authorities have received 20 requests for memorandums for the upcoming privatisation of Polmos Bialystok, the local press reported toda...

Elections Rule Out Pope's Trip

Jan.13.2005

Pope John Paul will visit Germany this year but will not take up an invitation to visit his native Poland in June because of elections planned there, the Vatica...

Give Ukraine A Chance In EU Say Poles

Jan.13.2005

Ukraine should be given a chance to join the European Union, and the people of the former Soviet republic should have the final say on membership, Polish Presid...

Golden Goal Back On Track

Jan.12.2005

A major investment project at the heart of Warsaw finally looks set to kick back into gear after a bungle by outgoing officials from the local government. The l...

Treats in Store

Jan.12.2005

Old Man Winter may be in frosty spirits but this certainly doesn't mean that there's nothing to warm the souls over the coming months. There's a great mix of ev...

Alliance In The Skies

Jan.12.2005

Low-fare airline, Germanwings, has added Polish Centralwings, owned by Polish State-owned airline LOT, to its pan-European partnership structure in what Central...

There's Nothing Like Family

Jan.12.2005

A bungling criminal's plans to pay his cousin to serve out his jail sentence went wrong when he foolishly squandered his freedom. Now they could both end up bei...

Alleged Nazi Past Threatens Man's Citizenship

Jan.12.2005

An 89-year-old retired factory worker from Worcester County, America, denies that he killed Jews in a Warsaw ghetto during World War II, even though a Nazi ros...

Poland Gears Up For Elections

Jan.12.2005

Polish parliament Speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said Tuesday he would seek a vote to dissolve parliament May 5 leading to general elections June 19. Po...

Schroeder To Speak At Auschwitz

Jan.11.2005

German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder will speak at a ceremony this month marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp, a gr...

Wild Boar Chases Man

Jan.7.2005

A man escaped unscathed after a boar chased him around a hospital parking lot in southwestern Poland, the hospital spokesman said Thursday. Cameras monitori...

Poland Keen To Leave Iraq

Jan.7.2005

Poland still hopes to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of this year, but the staunch US ally could prolong the mission if the international community as...

What Now For Former Speaker?

Jan.6.2005

If anyone in the Polish parliament could score a hit as a character in a James Bond film then it is Jozef Oleksy, who was relieved of his post as Speaker last w...

Poles Unenthusiastic About US Airbases

Jan.6.2005

More than half of the Polish people oppose the transfer of large US military bases from Germany to Poland, an opinion poll issued Wednesday said. According ...

Hats In The Ring For Top Job

Jan.4.2005

Foreign Minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz officially agreed yesterday to become a candidate for the seat of the Sejm Speaker, following the prose cutor's verdict...

Chocolate Heavyweights Cut Deal

Jan.4.2005

Domestic confectionary producer Jutrzenka has purchased the rights to the Goplana brand and a Poznan production facility from Nestle Polska and Societe des Prod...

Aeroflot Emergency Landing In Warsaw

Jan.4.2005

An Aeroflot plane had to make an emergency landing in Warsaw due to inappropriate behavior of a female passenger, head of Aeroflot press service Irina Dannenber...

Polish Ambassador Lucky To Survive

Jan.4.2005

In the wake of mounting concerns over the mushrooming death toll in South Asian countries hit by Sunday's catastrophe, a lucky survivor of the tragedy is thankf...

Poles Join Tsunami Effort

Jan.4.2004

A group of Polish forensic experts flew to Thailand's capital on Monday, to help with the identification of tsunami victims by means of DNA tests. The Polis...

Polish Hostage Tells Of Terror

Jan.4.2005

A Polish woman held hostage in Iraq for nearly a month was terrified of being rescued by U.S. troops because she believed any military-style raid would have end...

Polish Speaker Offers to Resign

Jan.3.2005

The speaker of Poland's Parliament, Jozef Oleksy, offered to resign on Wednesday, a party spokesman said, after a court said he had worked for the country's Com...

Polish Premier Congratulates Yushchenko

Jan.3.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski congratulated Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko on his presidential election victory this monday, hailing it a...

Polish Russian Wobble

Jan.3.2005

President Putin said that Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski's statement that "Russia without Ukraine is better than Russia with Ukraine" was wrong. "T...

Wartime Spectres Rise Again

Jan.03.2005

The American Justice Department has asked a federal court to revoke the U.S. citizenship of a man who allegedly served in a Nazi-sponsored police force during W...

Polish Wigilia

Dec.22.2004

Christmas Eve has always occupied a special place for those of Polish and eastern European heritage. The sacred symbols, beautiful customs and festive foods, so...

Polish Premier Flies To Iraq

Dec.22.2004

Poland's prime minister and defense minister arrived in Iraq Wednesday for a Christmas visit to Polish troops, a Polish military official said. Prime Ministe...

Poland's LOT Start Low-Cost Airline

Dec.15.2004

Centralwings, a new low-cost airline owned by Poland's national carrier LOT, will start flying to European destinations in February, its president said Tuesday....

Poles Remember Martial Law

Dec.14.2004

Young political activists demonstrated yesterday outside the home of Poland’s last communist-era leader, whom some condemned and others praised on the anniversa...

Poland Honours Jewish Holiday

Dec.14.2004

Jewish leaders and Warsaw officials lit the candles of a large menorah in the center of the capital on Monday for Hanukkah, a rare public observance of a Jewish...

23 Years Ago Today

Dec.13.2004

During the night of Dec. 12-13, 1981, the Polish military authorities moved to take control of the country, and the Council of State established a "Military Cou...

Warsaw's Second Airport Under Construction

Dec.13.2004

According to Przedsiebiorstwo Porty Lotnicze (PPL) the new airport in Modlin near Warsaw could open as early as June 2005, although the current state of constru...

Polanski Finishes Twist

Dec.13.2004

Oscar-winning director Roman Polanski is wrapping up his adaptation of Charles Dickens' "Oliver Twist," and the film-maker known for grim and challenging fare s...

Gay Bill Ruffles Feathers

Dec.13.2004

Poland’s upper house of parliament approved a bill last week that would allow gay couples to gain legal partnership rights, immediately drawing sharp criticism ...

Pole Rollerblades To America

Dec.8.2004

A Polish man traveled more than 3,000 miles (4,800 km) on rollerblades to Microsoft Corp.'s headquarters to ask Chairman Bill Gates pay the medical costs of two...

Warsaw Ghetto Diary Discovered

Dec.8.2004

As flames engulfed the Warsaw ghetto in its last days in 1943, a young Jewish woman hiding from Nazi soldiers kept a journal about her fight to survive in a cra...

Budget Airline Runs Aground

Dec.6.2004

Poland's first budget airline Air Polonia has been grounded due to financial problems, stranding 53,000 passengers, its chairman said on Sunday. But Jan Litw...

Pope Steps Into TinTin's Shoes

Dec.02.2004

A comic-strip version of the life of Pope John Paul II written by three Frenchmen has been published in the ailing pontiff's homeland Poland, the book's publish...

A Return to Roots?

Dec.2.2004

The Polish embassy in Tel Aviv is striving to cope with a sweeping number of Israelis, young and old, applying for a Polish passport, opting for a better life b...

Katyn War Crimes Case Reopens

Nov.02.2004

Polish war crimes prosecutors have opened an investigation into the 1940 massacre in the Katyn forest of more than 21,000 Polish officers and intellectuals by t...

Poles Back Yushchenko

Nov.28.2004

Groups of Poles demonstrated across the country on Saturday in support of western-leaning Ukraine opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, who claims he was cheated...

Forgotten Manuscripts Return

Nov.26.2004

The Czech Republic will return 33 priceless Hebrew manuscripts stolen by the Nazis during World War II to the Jewish Theologic Seminary in Wroclaw, Poland, an o...

Poland Hopes To Mediate Ukraine Crisis

Nov.26.2004

Wedged between troubled Ukraine and the West, Poland has plunged into the disputed Ukrainian presidential election in an attempt to mediate – a sign of anxiety ...

Poland's Walesa Steps Into Ukrainian Crisis

Nov.25.2004

Former Polish President Lech Walesa will go to Ukraine Thursday to help mediate the stand off following the disputed presidential elections. The PAP news age...

Miraculous Reappearance Of Polish Hostage

Nov.21.2004

A Polish woman abducted from her apartment in Baghdad reappeared on Saturday in Poland after being suddenly released. While she said she was treated well, she r...

An Electric Curtain for Post-Communist Poland?

Nov.19.2004

Israel's Minister of Defense Shaul Mofaz yesterday proposed to Poland's Minister of Internal Affairs and Administration Ryszard Kalisz that it use the model of ...

Major Exhibition Opens In Warsaw

Nov.18.2004

The Exhibition "Warsaw-Moscow. Moscow-Warsaw. 1900-2000" opened on Wednesday night at the National Gallery of Contemporary Art Zaheta in the Polish capital. ...

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