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Really nice guy visits Warsaw
On the final day of his Polish visit His Holiness, the 14th Dalai Lama met with Polish politicians in Warsaw and emphasised the importance of fundamental values... | Current Affairs |
Sillywester
Looks like the Warsaw authorities have excelled themselves yet again with the planned New Year’s Eve (Sylwester) Party. Over the last week there have been... | City Focus |
YO-HO-HUM?
The Christmas spirit finally hit Warsaw on Saturday evening as the Christmas lights from Nowy Swiat all the way down to the Old Town square were officially lit... | Comment |
Parade Square on the Chopin Block!
Sorry, but I have to admit to having a soft spot for the Palace of Culture and the surrounding Plac Defilad (Parade Square). Obviously its socialist realist gra... | Comment |
Kaczynski, shaken not stirred
Recently we have been bombarded with adverts telling us that James Bond loves his Sony Ericsson titanium silver C902 Cyber-shot mobile phone. In the new Bond mo... | Comment |
Warsaw's Scottish Mayor Remembered
On Sunday 16th November a plaque was unveiled in the heart of the Old Town in memory of Alexander Chalmers, a Scot who made his home in Warsaw in the 17th centu... | History |
General Sikorski to be Exhumed
Polish prosecutors have been given the go ahead to exhume the remains of General Wladyslaw Sikorski in an attempt to finally settle the mystery surrounding his ... | Comment |
Tragedy of All Saints Day
The road accident numbers for the All Saints Day holiday weekend never cease to shock. The 1st of November in Poland is a day given over to remembering the dead... | Comment |
Warsaw Life on CNN
During a week of programming focussing on Poland, Warsaw Life's correspondent Kasia Ostrowski highlights some of the best places to visit in the capital, to CNN... | City Focus |
CNN Turns Its Eye On Poland
CNN has kicked off a special week of coverage devoted to Poland. "Eye on Poland: Country at the Crossroads" takes a team of top CNN reporters right across the ... | Comment |
Yoko Ono in Warsaw
World-renowned musician and modern artist Yoko Ono arrived in Warsaw to open her second exhibition in Poland, titled "Fly," taking place at the Centre for Conte... | Art and Culture |
Missile Shield To Go Ahead
Warsaw and Washington put pen to paper on a preliminary deal this week to base part of the infamous US missile shield defense in Poland - despite strong Russian... | Current Affairs |
Poles Who Saved Jews Honoured in Warsaw
More than 60 heroes of the Second World War were honoured in Warsaw on the 20th of July. The elderly Poles had risked their lives hiding Jews from the occupying... | Current Affairs |
Zloty Hits Record Highs
The National Bank of Poland hiked up interest rates at the end of June, sending the zloty flying against the euro to a record high. The country's central bank r... | Business |
Warsaw Ghetto Hero Dies
Warsaw Ghetto hero Irena Sendlerowa, honoured by the Polish parliament last year, died in a Warsaw hospital at the age of 98. Working as a social worker during ... | Current Affairs |
New Terminal Opens at Warsaw Airport
Warsaw's Frederic Chopin International Airport has just received a much-needed face-lift in the form of a new terminal (or would that be more like an breast enl... | City Focus |
Warsaw Squirrels Go Nuts!
Well perhaps it's a bit early to classify Lazienki Park's red squirrels alongside the Wolves of Willoughby Chase or the Beast of Bodmin Moor, but one things for... | Comment |
BBC in Warsaw
The BBC Coventry & Warwickshire will be broadcasting from Warsaw this week, reporting on Tuesday and Wednesday about the American company which has lead the red... | City Focus |
Warsaw Ghetto Diary Restored
After more than 50 years, the charred remains of a diary found in the Warsaw ghetto have been made readable again thanks to the work of scientists at the US Hol... | History |
Improving Relations with Russia
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has just met his Russian counterpart, Victor Zubkhov, in Moscow. Over the past two years, tensions have been high between Wars... | Current Affairs |
Missile Shield? What Missile Shield?
While a few months ago the debate over the planned U.S. missile shield in Poland was big news, it seems that with the change in government, the former hot topic... | Current Affairs |
New Year's Eve in Warsaw
If you're in Warsaw for New Year's Eve, don't miss the action going on at the gigantic Defilad Square, with the Palace of Culture as the backdrop. An enormous s... | City Focus |
Stop! Schengen Time!
Tonight at midnight Poland will go through one of its most dramatic transformations since joining the European Union: it will enter the Schengen zone. As the cl... | Current Affairs |
Tusk in Brussels
On his first official trip to the EU capital as prime minister, Donald Tusk is visiting Brussels to begin the process of patching up the torn relations the Kacz... | Current Affairs |
Chopin's Back in Warsaw
...Or at least one of his most famous manuscripts is! The Frederic Chopin Museum in Warsaw has just acquired the original score of “Faintaisie-Impromptu” by Fre... | Art and Culture |
Ding Dong, the Twin is Gone
While handing in a resignation as prime minister is certainly not a joyous occasion, it must be especially painful to hand that resignation in to your twin brot... | Current Affairs |
What It Means for Poland
The official results of Sunday's election are in, and Donald Tusk's opposition party Civic Platform (PO) is celebrating a landslide victory. The liberal pro-bus... | Current Affairs |
A New POland
A high turnout (for Poland) was just one of the main differences between this year's election, which took place this Sunday the 21st of October, and the one in ... | Comment |
Cluster-debate to the Polish White House
A series of debates have escalated in the pre-election frenzy leading up to Sunday's early elections. Earlier, Civic Platform (PO) leader Donald Tusk entered a ... | Current Affairs |
Politicians Courting Poles Abroad
As the early elections near, Polish politicians have begun an intensive campaign of persuading the estimated one million Poles in the UK and 200,000 Poles in Ir... | Current Affairs |
The Zookeeper's Wife
Acclaimed American naturalist and historian Diane Ackerman has turned her attentions to Warsaw in a new book published this Autumn. The Zookeeper's Wife, a true... | History |
Poland Rally Against Portugal
Poland put a major dent in Portugal's qualifying chances for Euro 2008 when they scored a late goal courtesy of Jacek Krzynowek, to draw the game 2-2.
Altho... | Comment |
Mark Your Calendars
The date to watch is now September 7th, when the Polish Parliament is slated to vote on whether to dissolve itself or not. If the politicians decided that disso... | Current Affairs |
Dropping Like Flies
It seems even government jobs aren't safe in Poland anymore - at least not when you're working for the prime minister. A series of sackings that began in July h... | Current Affairs |
Another Minister Bites the Dust
It seems that Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski is on a roll when it comes to sacking members of his cabinet. The first victim (though rightly so) was ra... | Current Affairs |
Stones Will Play and Donate Proceeds
The famous British rockers The Rolling Stones were set to play the Sluzewiec Race Track on the evening of July 25th when tragedy struck in France - a bus carryi... | Art and Culture |
....Or Not
It seems we were a bit too optimistic in predicting a change in Polish government. While some feel such a change would be helpful to the Polish people, it looks... | Current Affairs |
Lepper Sacked, Elections Eminent
It looks like Andrzej Lepper might be off to his farm sooner than expected. The deputy prime minister has just been sacked by the prime minister, Jaroslaw Kaczy... | Current Affairs |
Poles Battle Over EU Treaty
Even though an agreement was reached at last week's EU summit, the dispute over voting rights continues. Though the Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski man... | Current Affairs |
Jewish Museum to Open in Warsaw
Today ground was broken on the building of another museum in Warsaw, this time dedicated to the centuries of Jewish heritage in Poland. A ceremony took place at... | City Focus |
Wajda Receives Polish-American Award
Yesterday the legendary director of Polish cinema and Oscar winner, Andrzej Wajda, 81, was honoured by the U.S. ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe with the first ... | Art and Culture |
EU Votes Worth Fighting For?
In another case of Warsaw vs. the EU (though surprisingly Prague is the only EU state on Poland's side this time), Polish President Lech Kaczynski is threatenin... | Current Affairs |
Russia, Stay Out of My Missile Shield!
Talks about a proposed missile shield being placed on Polish and Czech territory have now been going on since last week, but today Poland has upped the ante as ... | Current Affairs |
Love is in the (Ryan)Air...
While Ryanair has some faults - restrictive luggage regulations, the cattle herd-like feel of boarding their planes, the overpriced snacks - it's still hailed a... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Life PDF Now Available!
Have you been thinking lately, "Gee, Warsaw Life's guide sure is helpful, but I wish I could take it with me on my trip to Warsaw!"? Well fear not, we have the ... | Comment |
Holocaust Denier Kicked out of Book Fair
The International Warsaw Book Fair took place this weekend, but sadly not without incident. A fair promoting learning, the exchange of ideas, and combating igno... | Art and Culture |
Russia, Poland, the EU ...and Meat
Russia and Poland are at odds over an issue - but then again, so what else is new? Perhaps what's new is this time the conflict is over meat, and not the contro... | Current Affairs |
EU Urges Poland Towards Tolerance
It's a sad state of affairs when a country with a history of being oppressed as deep as Poland's fails to live up to its obligation of respecting fundamental hu... | Comment |
Warsaw Celebrates Euro 2012
Seemingly against all the odds, Poland and Ukraine's joint bid for Euro 2012 triumphed ahead of other more fancied candidates such as Italy and the other joint ... | Current Affairs |
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