Chopin Music Festival
Summertime always brings plenty of action to the capital city, and this month is no exception. Alongside the usual weekly concerts and events, you’ll have...

Art and Culture

Poles Missing After Hurricane
22 Poles are still missing after hurricane Katrina struck the US southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama a week ago, the Polish Foreign Ministry h...

Current Affairs

Yushchenko Cancels Visit
Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has cancelled his visit to Poland planned for September 7-9, Itar-Tass news agency reports. Yushchenko was to present his ...

Current Affairs

Lepper Courts Chinese Communists
Farmers’ Self Defence has invited a delegation of the Chinese Leaque of Communist Youth for a series of meetings and discussions aimed at establishing a long-te...

Comment

New German Consul Assaulted
Police in Gdansk is continuing its search for the three youths who assaulted the German consul in the city yesterday. Ute Minke-Koenig assumed her post only...

Current Affairs

Zanussi Flies Celluloid Flag
'Persona Non Grata', a feature by the internationally-acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, has been shown at the Venice Film Festival. It is Poland’s of...

Art and Culture

Pope Was Key To Victory
Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician who helped topple Poland's communist regime by founding the Solidarity movement in 1980, credited the late Pope John Paul ...

History

Poland Sends Condolences To US
Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski sent a letter of condolences to his American counterpart G. W. Bush in which he talked of being “shocked by the enormity...

Current Affairs

World Salutes Solidarity
World leaders paid tribute to Solidarity on Wednesday, saying the labor movement launched 25 years ago in the Gdansk shipyards was a catalyst for some of the mo...

Current Affairs

Walesa Hails Freedom
Poland's Solidarity hero Lech Walesa has told his countrymen that any price, including the pain accompanying economic reforms, was worth paying for the freedom ...

Current Affairs

President Unlikely To Testify
The parliamentary committee investigating the privatisation of Poland’s oil giant Orlen has called on president Aleksander Kwasniewski to testify. The motion to...

Current Affairs

Poland Blanks Belarusian Choice
Poland will not recognise newly elected leaders of a Polish ethnic organisation in Belarus because they were installed after pressure from President Alexander L...

Current Affairs

Black Madonna Dazzles Anew
Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics gathered at Poland's holiest shrine Friday to pray as the revered Black Madonna of Czestochowa icon was given a new coverin...

Comment

Lodz Ghetto Remembered
Events commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz began in that central Polish city today. A mass in the intention of th...

Current Affairs

Solidarity Celebrations Set To Start
The main events marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity – the first free trade union in a communist bloc – will be held this week in Warsaw and Gdansk, the u...

Current Affairs

Activists Detained in Poland
Belarussian police detained two ethnic Polish activists on Friday before a meeting intended to entrench rival leaders at the helm of a Polish association who wo...

Comment

Coca Cola Calls Time
Beverage producer Coca-Cola will pull its sodas out of Polish elementary schools and replace them with bottled water and fruit juices due to growing public conc...

Comment

Greek Bank Branches Into Poland
Greece's third biggest bank, EFG Eurobank Ergasias, plans to enter Poland and open as many as 200 branches, the Greek press reports. Polish Eurobank, control...

Comment

Communist Leader Apologizes To Czechs
Former Polish President General Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sunday apologised for the first time for ordering Polish troops to take part in the Moscow-led crackdown ...

Current Affairs

Polish Ace In Tragic Accident
General Jacek Bartoszcze, the chief of Poland's air force, died in the crash of a two-seater plane on Saturday, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "An inqu...

Current Affairs

Early unveiling for Depeche Mode!
The recording industry, that mom and pop enterprise with a heart of gold, has just made a big arrest in Poland. Somewhere in between exploiting the sex appeal ...

Business

Ukraine and Poland Jack Up Bid
Ukraine and Poland agreed on Thursday to press on with a joint bid to stage the 2012 European championship and pledged high-level support in the two east Europe...

Comment

Depeche Fan A Wanted Man
Police in Poland have arrested a Polish individual alleged to have accessed a secure pre-release video copy of the new Depeche Mode single Precious and made it ...

Comment

Poland Sells Copters To New Iraq
Poland has agreed to overhaul 24 aging Soviet military helicopters sold to Iraq, Middle East Newsline reported Thursday. Polish defense ministry officials sa...

Current Affairs

In Defense of Polish Migrants
After having been the target of political manipulation and fear mongering for as long as they have existed, Polish Migrant workers are finally getting some help...

Current Affairs

Presidents Convene In Crimea
President Aleksander Kwasniewski arrived in the Crimean peninsula where he is expected to meet the presidents of Ukraine, Georgia and Lithuania. The meeting ...

Current Affairs

Polish To Be Top Gun
Prime Minister Marek Belka believes that Poland's participation in air space patrols over the Baltic states attests to the fact that the Polish air force achiev...

Current Affairs

Poles Boot To Victory
Substitute Grzegorz Rasiak scored twice Wednesday to lead Poland to a 3-2 win over Israel to win the Valery Lobanovsky exhibition tournament. Poland, which b...

Comment

Amber Heist At Border
An attempted customs deception of half a million euros has been prevented by Polish officers on the Polish-Russian checkpoint at Gronowo. A Russian citizen t...

Comment

Berlin Centre Ruffles Feathers
German opposition leader and chancellor candidate Angela Merkel met with Polish President Alexander Kwasniewski Tuesday where she discussed topics of bilateral ...

Current Affairs

Poland Reach Soccer Final
Poland and Israel have reached the final of the four-team Valery Lobanovsky tournament after Poland beat Serbia 3-2 on Monday and Israel beat hosts Ukraine on p...

Comment

All Creatures Great And Small
Horses, cows, dogs, rabbits and even honey bees have been blessed in the small town of Mikstat, western Poland, today in accordance with a 300 year old traditio...

Comment

Polish Ultimate Champs
At the recent "Poznan Unleashed" Ultimate tournament, held in Poznan, Poland, two Polish ultimate frisbee teams faced one another in a tournament-style match. ...

Comment

Poland Calls For Russian Calm
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski urged an improvement in relations with Russia on Monday and called on Poles to avoid "senseless stereotypes". Relatio...

Current Affairs

Banned Priest Grabs Limelight
A Polish priest who was once banned from preaching for anti-Semitic remarks lashed out on Sunday at laws made by "Jewish bankers", during celebrations of the 25...

Current Affairs

Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!
Solidarity's iconic figure-head, Lech Walesa, has recently made public his desire for a democratized Belarus. Specifically, Walesa mentioned that a 'revolution...

Current Affairs

Poles Complain About Auschwitz Video
Dutch prosecutors will launch an investigation into a spoof video portraying the Auschwitz Nazi death camp as a techno party to decide whether to take action ag...

Current Affairs

This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!
Belarussian information minister thinks that the idea to install in Poland a radio station broadcasting for Belarus is an idea of Polish trouble stirring politi...

Current Affairs

Second Polish Diplomat Attacked
A Polish diplomat was beaten up in Moscow today. According to the Russian ITAR TASR agency the victim is the second secretary of the embassy. The man was assaul...

Current Affairs

Politician Heads For Clink
The maverick farmers’ Self-Defense party leader Andrzej Lepper has been sentenced to 15 months in jail and suspended for 5 years for slandering five politicians...

Comment

Solidarity Concert To Draw Thousands
Tickets for Jean Michel Jarre’s concert, marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity, the communist bloc’s first free trade union, have almost sold out. The ...

Comment

Solidarity In The Big Apple
A special exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity will be placed in Union Square – one of the busiest squares in NYC. It will b...

Comment

Polish Diplomat Assaulted
An official at the Polish Embassy in Moscow was injured in an attack near the building. Interfax News Agency reports that Andrzej Uriadko was being treated i...

Current Affairs

Pole Wins Bronze
Polish hammer thrower Szymon Ziolkowski has won bronze at the World Championships in Athletics in Helsinki. With a throw of 79.35 m, Ziolkowski, Olympic champio...

Comment

Dudek On Sidelines
Liverpool's Champions League final hero Jerzy Dudek has been ruled out for three months after dislocating his right elbow in training. The accident happened ...

Comment

Belarus Blocks Poles
Belarus yesterday denied a delegation from the European Parliament permission to enter the country. Polish diplomat Bogdan Adam Klich, chairman of the Europe...

Current Affairs

Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland
Poland were crowned World Speedway Champions after storming to a home victory in Wroclaw. The Poles won with 62 points ahead of Sweden who were second on 34 a...

Comment

Suspects Released in Mugging Case
Warsaw police detained two persons who might have been involved in Sunday's attack on Russian diplomats' children, but they were released Tuesday afternoon when...

Current Affairs

The Best for your Buses
By the end of 2006, over 300 polish bus drivers will be behind the wheel in Britain. To staff its expansion into England, the Scottish bus company Stagecoach, ...

Business

Wicker Working Wonders
In southern Poland, a small rural town is building on historic tradition to fuel their economy in the 21st century. But what exactly are they building and what...

Business