News & Views Directory 5
This is a full directory of all 928 articles about Warsaw, listed in reverse order, with the most recent article at the top. If you'd prefer to search for some particular article, please use the search facility on the news front page.
Jan.8.2006 | |
'It's difficult to fall from a pedestal slowly' remarked the late poet Stanislaw Lec. The case of former Archbishop of Warsaw Stanislaw Wielgus presents a glari... | |
Jan.5.2007 | |
A storm of controversy is swirling around the induction of incoming Archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus. For the past ten days, Polish newspapers have been ... | |
Dec.5.2006 | |
"For some strange reason, only good things happen to me in this city," remarked Roman Polanski as he accepted a lifetime-achievement award this week in Warsaw. ... | |
Dec.14.2002 | |
In a blow both to the right wing Law and Order party, and to misogynists everywhere, the first female President (Mayor) of Warsaw has been elected from the Citi... | |
Dec.5.2006 | |
Poland's ruling coalition was struggling to maintain composure on Monday after allegations were published that Deputy Prime Minister Andrzej Lepper had operated... | |
Nov.13.2006 | |
This past Sunday, the thirteenth of November, a little over 40% of Poland's eligible voters (a sizable percentage by Polish standards) turned out at the polls t... | |
Oct.31.2006 | |
Luxembourg based real estate developer Orco Property Group has announced plans to list on the Warsaw and Budapest stock exchanges in the first half of next year... | |
Oct.02.2006 | |
Everyone does it, some get a good laugh from it whilst others will shy away from the topic all together. Its hard to look at this story and avoid a bit of a chu... | |
Oct.23.2006 | |
Polskapresse, publisher of nine regional dailies, announced today its plan to launch Poland's biggest daily newspaper to be based in Warsaw next year. Accord... | |
Sept.29.2006 | |
An aide to Poland's prime minister has been secretly filmed apparently trying to entice an opposition MP to defect in return for a government post. The gover... | |
Sept.12.2006 | |
A Polish lady born and raised in New York is set to begin a dizzying adventure on the silver screen. Naomi Novik's fantastical literary creations have already g... | |
Aug.15.2006 | |
'Had Pilsudski and Weygand failed to arrest the triumphant advance of the Soviet Bolshevik Army at the Battle of Warsaw, not only would Christianity have experi... | |
Aug.11.2006 | |
Poland's acting mayor of Warsaw has cancelled a trip to Berlin, saying he could not visit the city while it was running an exhibition commemorating the expuls... | |
May.1.2006 | |
Ceremonies are underway here in remembrance of the Warsaw Uprising, which began today in 1944. The uprising against the Nazi Occupiers was initially intended to... | |
Jul.18.2006 | |
More than 20,000 new jobs will be created and 240million PLN (£41million) will be added to the country’s coffers when Miss World 2006 takes place in Pola... | |
Jul.24.2006 | |
The Sejm approved a bill that would remove people who collaborated with the communist secret services (SB) from public life. The bill, which now needs Senate... | |
Jul.17.2006 | |
Polish President Lech Kaczynski has sworn in his identical twin brother, Jaroslaw, as prime minister. The move comes a week after Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz resi... | |
June.26.2006 | |
British policemen have charged two adults in relation to the theft of possessions belonging to Polish football star Jerzy Dudek. After returning from his hol... | |
June.23.2006 | |
If you go down to the river today you're in for a big surprize.... For Wislostrada has returned for another weekend of refined mayhem on the banks of the river.... | |
June.14.2006 | |
If you've already had enough of Poland's performance in the World Cup, or you've simply had enough of football altogether, a fair antidote would be to head over... | |
June.12.2006 | |
The Poles are facing a swift ejection from the World Cup following last Friday's defeat at the hands (or feet if we're more accurate) of the Ecuadorians. It was... | |
June.7.2006 | |
Some 300,000 Polish fans are gearing up to travel to Germany for the first round of the World Cup, latest estimates show. This number would be some seven times ... | |
May.31.2006 | |
Poland's Chief Rabbi, Michael Schudrich, was attacked in an isolated incident last Saturday in Warsaw. Rabbi Schudrich, who was booked to make a speech at Birke... | |
May.19.2006 | |
The writer, gypsy scholar and resistance veteran Jerzy Ficowski was laid to rest on Thursday at Warsaw's historic Powazki Cemetery. Ficowski was eighty-two when... | |
May.15.2006 | |
The relationship between Warsaw, Poland's capital, and Krakow, the former capital, has long been a source of jokes to inhabitants of both cities. However, when ... | |
May.11.2006 | |
It's been over twelve years in the making, and notched up over 13 million dollars in production costs, with numerous aborted sessions in numerous studios, but A... | |
May.4.2006 | |
It was one of the most controversial chapters of the Second World War, an action that divided both the Poles themselves, as well as their European allies. In th... | |
May.04.2006 | |
As the summer heat slowly begins to pour over the wintry chill of Poland, a whole host of musical, cultural and sporting events come to the eastern European cou... | |
Apr.27.2006 | |
Two million Poles have arrived in Britain since EU borders were thrown open to eight east European countries in 2004. The influx - greater than the populatio... | |
April.26.2006 | |
Pope Benedict XVI will hold 12 speeches during his journey in Poland. The most anticipated one is the speech he will make in Auschwitz where he will pray for th... | |
April.21.2006 | |
A silent march is due to take place in Warsaw this Sunday in remembrance of the Armenian Genocide in Ottoman Turkey in 1915. Commemoration of the tragedy is ... | |
Apr.19.2006 | |
Even though Polish athletes do win medals of major international championships every now and then, Poland is no superpower in sport. And while Poles generally p... | |
April.19.2006 | |
After many years of a not so healthy lifestyle, the very fact that Keith Richards still remains alive is a source of universal wonderment. He's up there with Ig... | |
Apr.10.2006 | |
WARSAW – Yesterday evening’s demonstration against the enforced closure of Le Madame club building, which also housed the Polish Green Party, was declared “a b... | |
April.7.2006 | |
Warsaw has prevailed over four other Polish cities in a fierce competition to host 120 of the planet's most beautiful women for the Miss World 2006 final on Sep... | |
Apr.06.2006 | |
The last surviving leader of the Warsaw ghetto uprising said Tuesday he would seek the help of the Polish government to silence Roman Catholic fundamentalist Ra... | |
Apr.05.2006 | |
The long awaited trial of 41 members of the notorious organized crime ring, known as the Pruszkow mafia, has begun in Warsaw. Its members, among them four infam... | |
Apr.04.2006 | |
Warsaw, April 3 (DPA) Warsaw has prevailed over four other Polish cities in a fierce competition to host 120 of the planet's most beautiful women for the Miss W... | |
March.13.2005 | |
Poles are generally in favour of early elections, state the results of a survey commissioned by Polish Radio. A poll carried out by PENTOR Research Internat... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Poland and Hungary are quarrelling over the definition of vodka. For the Poles vodka is “an alcoholic beverage derived from cereals or potatoes.” Historically v... | |
March.6.2006 | |
Andrzej Wajda – one of Poland’s most outstanding and renowned directors – is celebrating his 80th birthday today. Wajda is the proud owner of an Oscar statue... | |
March.3.2006 | |
An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt'' that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, the fi... | |
March.3.2006 | |
Book between Monday, March 6, and Sunday, March 12. Centralwings, the budget offshoot of LOT Polish Airways, has flights to Poland from £1 one-way excluding tax... | |
March.3.2006 | |
Switzerland will grant Poland 489 million Swiss Francs in aid for new EU members, Swiss economy minister Joseph Deissem said on Thursday in Warsaw after talks w... | |
March.1.2006 | |
A team of Roman Catholic Church historians and experts has been pulled together to check the files of communist-era secret police for evidence of collaboration ... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
A resident of Woliborz in south-western Poland has celebrated his 116th birthday. Pawel Parniak has 11 grandchildren, 32 great grand-children and 22 great-great... | |
Feb.28.2006 | |
A coal miner who was trapped underground for almost five days has been brought to the surface. He is now in a hospital, dehydrated after 111 hours without food ... | |
Feb.23.2006 | |
Two Polish film fanatics have jumped into the record books (or rather sat into the record books) after seeing out a colossal 115 hour session in their local cin... | |
Feb.27.2006 | |
Poland’s Tomasz Sikora has won the silver medal at the Winter Games in Turin. He put up an almost flawless performance in the 15-kilometre mass-start biathlon e... | |
Feb.24.2006 | |
Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz has been named cardinal by Pope Benedict. While the appointment is seen as a victory for the Church’s more open wing in P... | |
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