Vodka Giant Announces Cuts
Polish vodka producer Wyborowa has confirmed a round of job cuts, according to local reports yesterday (30 January). Wyborowa, owned by French drinks behemot...

Business

Reform In Wake Of Roof Collapse
Poland's prime minister said new federal regulations would allow authorities to close buildings whose roofs aren't cleared of snow, and investigators picked thr...

Current Affairs

Government Closes Buildings At Risk
The government has ordered the temporary closure of some large buildings fearing their roofs may collapse in a repeat of a weekend disaster that killed 67 peopl...

Current Affairs

Poles Pay Tribute
Poles came from around the country to Katowice today to lay flowers and light candles in memory of the 62 people who died when the roof of an exhibition hall co...

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Poland In Mourning
Poland is in mourning. President Lech Kaczynski has declared three days of national mourning following Saturday’s tragedy in the town of Chorzów near Katowice. ...

Comment

Tragic Toll Of Collapsed Hall
Rescuers abandoned hope Sunday of finding survivors beneath the wreckage of an exhibition hall that collapsed, killing 66 people, and authorities were bringing ...

Current Affairs

61 Years On
Survivors of the most infamous Nazi death camp, Auschwitz, on Friday marked the 61th anniversary of its liberation and looked to a May visit there by German-bor...

Current Affairs

Millions Earmarked For Polish Roads
Poland will spend over 100 billion zlotys(more than 30 billion U.S.dollars) on the construction of new highways and motorways by 2013, announced Prime Minister ...

Current Affairs

Rapid Railway Line From Tricity
It will be the fastest railway line in Poland. EU will forward about 3 billion PLN (780 million euro) to Polish National Railway (PKP) to finance the change of ...

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What Next For The Dude?
Cologne have become the latest club willing to offer Jerzy Dudek an escape route out of Liverpool. The goalkeeper's agent yesterday claimed the German club a...

Comment

Poles Dig In Against Merger
Poland is refusing to budge from its opposition to Unicredito Italiano SpA's plan to merge its Polish unit Bank Pekao with Poland's BPH, which Unicredito is acq...

Business

Classy Car Hire
SIXT Press Release - Travelling within the capital city, visitors may now commute in style courtesy of Sixt car rentals. Recently, the firm has announced the ne...

City Focus

Pole Revs Up For Formula One
As temperatures continue to plummet, we thought we'd bring you news of a less freezing variety. Indeed, whilst motorists brave the snows and ice here in Polska,...

Comment

Question Mark Over Camps In Poland
The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday there was evidence the United States outsourced torture to other cou...

Current Affairs

Pole Evicted From British Big Brother
Polish actress Rula Lenska was given the boot from Britain's Celebrity Big Brother show last night. Lenska, a Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Fre...

Comment

Public Weary Of Political Mess
One in four Poles consider that the best solution to the present political crisis would be a coalition of the ruling Law and Justice and the ‘liberal’ Civic Pla...

Comment

Gold For Polish Ski-Surfer
Jagna Marczulaitis of Poland edged Daniela Meuli of Switzerland to win the parallel slalom event at a snowboarding World Cup on Sunday. Sara Fischer of Swed...

Comment

Snowboard Showdown
Jan Michaelis of Germany and Paulina Ligocka of Poland won snowboard World Cup halfpipe events Friday. Michaelis won his first event of the season ahead of ...

Comment

Poland On Steady European Course
Poland's integration with the EU is very advanced and it is very improbable that Poland could have an EU-hostile government, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Mell...

Comment

Poland To Host Miss World
In these politically correct times, the British are somewhat awkward about their creation of the Miss World beauty contest. However, viewers have voted with the...

Comment

Poles Show Light At The End Of Tunnel
A Dad of six is due to throw himself out of a plane to raise vital funds for his nephew's medical treatment. John Gibbens, from St. Mary Cray, England, is se...

Comment

Poland Trailing Euro Target
Poland's Finance Ministry said the country would not be able to meet the fiscal requirements for adopting the euro before 2010. In an update of its euro conv...

Current Affairs

Poet Passes On
Polish priest and popular poet father Jan Twardowski has died in a hospital in Warsaw at the age of 90. His poetic debut came in 1936 with a small tome titl...

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Bargain Flights To Poland
If you're on the look out for some great deals on flights to Poland, look no further. Centralwings, LOT Polish Airlines’ cut-price alter-ego, is offering fli...

Comment

Uproar In Parliament
The Polish Sejm (parliament) descended into farce yesterday when the Speaker of the House refused to set in motion a vote on the new budget. Opposition MPs c...

Current Affairs

Warning About Icy Roads
Weather forecasters have issued a warning that roads will be slippery in places as a cold atmospheric front is moving from western to southern Poland. The w...

Comment

AirBaltic Returns To Scene
AirBaltic, the low-cost airline owned by the Latvian treasury (52.6 percent) and SAS (47.2 percent) is going to restart its routes to Poland. The company has...

Comment

'The Sausage' Is Unsure Of Birmingham
Korona Kielce striker Grzegorz Piechna has decided to stay at the club for at least the next six months, despite Birmingham's interest in trialling him. The ...

Comment

Pole Joins Potter Adventure
Oscar nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak has won the commission to film the next Harry Potter movie, 'The Order of the Phoenix.' Idziak, who won fame ...

Art and Culture

Freedom Balloons Will Fly Over Belarus
One thousand coloured balloons will soar to Belarus from Bialystok, northeast Poland next Monday in support of democratic change in the country, the Polish bran...

Comment

Vatican Turns On Hardliners
The Vatican has issued a document imposing discipline upon the clergy in Poland. Their public activity outside the church now requires written permission from b...

Current Affairs

Polish Countess Meets Big Brother
A Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Free Europe has taken her place in Britain's notorious Celebrity Big Brother House. Rula Lenska (b.1947, Cambr...

Comment

Pope Plans Polish Trip
The Vatican envoy for papal tours Alberto Gasparri arrived in Poland today with the aim of touring the route of the planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI to that c...

Current Affairs

Polish Maestro Takes Tokyo
An injury to his hands in World War II cut short Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's career as a concert pianist. But the 82-year-old composer and conductor, who has left...

Art and Culture

Ten ambassadors recalled
Poland’s new conservative right wing government has recalled ten ambassadors believed to be linked with the former communist regime. Diplomats who have held pos...

Current Affairs

White Eagles
It wouldn't be too much to say that being dubbed a Knight of the White Eagle is something akin to being dubbed a Knight of the Round Table. The 300 year old ord...

Comment

Priests Learn Defense Tactics
Polish police have conducted a training course for Roman Catholic parish priests on how to protect their churches against robberies and acts of terrorism. Accor...

Comment

Fading From Memory
13th of December marks the 24th anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, a date which is an important one in the pages of Polish history. Howev...

Current Affairs

'He Had Plenty Of Spirit'
A 111-year-old pensioner, thought to be the oldest man living in Britain, has died. Former Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was known to ...

Comment

Brit Wins Polish Reality TV Romp
A British man has been chosen as the winner of Bar Europa, the Polish version of TV's Big Brother. Tom Amos, 28, from Malvern, Worcs, entered the contest as ...

Comment

Her Majesty's Joker In A Twist
A top British ambassador has risked sparking a diplomatic row after a stinging attack on France and Poland over European Union farm subsidies made in a "joke" e...

Comment

Saturday Vernissage
Gallery SD Wilanow will showcase the work of Bogna Jarzemska-Misztalska and Marian Jarzemski. Bogna Jarzemska completed her studies at the Academy of Fine ...

Art and Culture

If You Can't Beat 'Em
Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi...

Comment

Poland Under The Spotlight
News portals are being deluged with articles reasserting that the CIA has secret holding camps in Eastern Europe for top terror suspects. The issue returned...

Current Affairs

Pardon Confirmed For Gangster Killer
A Polish businessman jailed for the beheading of two gangsters who were blackmailing him is to receive a pardon after serving 10 years in prison, an aide to Pre...

Comment

EU Shock Up For Debate
Poorer European Union newcomers may agree to a reduction in the aid they receive from the bloc's coffers but not to as big a cut as current EU president Britain...

Current Affairs

Tragic Saga of Swimming Champ
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash. H...

Current Affairs

Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'
Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the award of the prestigious European weekly European Voice as statesman of the year 2005.T he Polish head of state has been...

Current Affairs

If You Go Down To The Woods Today
Polish and German football hooligans met in a wood near Frankfurt an der Oder to fight for the control of Berlin during the coming EURO 2006 Championships. Over...

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Poland Piqued By Tony's Plan
Poland's president said Tuesday that Britain's latest proposals for a long-term EU budget were bad for Poland and Europe, insisting that economic aid promised t...

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