Fallen But Not Forgotten
It's the time of year when golden leaves are falling, and today sees the anniversary of the fall of two of Poland's most brilliant heros. On October 19th 181...

History

Poland Not Out The Woods Yet
Transparency International's Corruption Perceptions Index 2005 shows that business people and analysts consider, once again, the Nordic countries as the world's...

Current Affairs

More Mischief On Campaign Trail
Opponents of the liberal candidate for the presidency, Donald Tusk, have attempted to find materials concerning his parents in German archives. One such per...

Current Affairs

Warsaw Estimates Wartime Losses
The Warsaw municipality has published a report that estimates the war-time losses of the Polish capital at 54 billion dollars. According to mayor of Warsaw and ...

History

Chopin Contest Final Stretch
Four pianists from Japan, three from South Korea and two from Poland are among the 12 finalists of the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw. In t...

Current Affairs

Dozens Of Deer Disappear
Police in western Poland are looking for 50 fallow deer stolen from a farm run by a German citizen. The animals are grazing on a 25 hectare, fenced off field. T...

Comment

Pope Plans Polish Trip
Pope Benedict has indicated in his first wide-ranging interview that his papacy would not be a maverick one but instead aimed at ensuring that the teachings of ...

Current Affairs

German Mud May Stick
Poland’s presidential frontrunner Donald Tusk has said it was a moment of a big personal test for him to learn that his grandfather served in the Nazi German We...

Comment

Belated Honours For Polish Hero
The Polish nobleman regarded as the father of the American cavalry finally received a hero's funeral on the 226th anniversary of the Revolutionary War battle in...

Current Affairs

Muck Flies In Election Campaign
Poland's presidential candidate Lech Kaczynski sacked his campaign manager for saying the family of rival Donald Tusk had ties to Nazi Germany's army during Wor...

Current Affairs

Chopin Contest Enters 2nd Round
The 15th International Chopin Piano competition in Warsaw has entered the second round. Poland, Japan and South Korea have the largest national groups among 32 ...

Art and Culture

Stash Of Ciggies Nailed By Customs
Polish customs officials have seized at least 8 million cigarettes apparently destined for the British market in a coordinated sweep in two cities this week, th...

Comment

Poland Skittled By Sven's Crew
A superb late strike by Frank Lampard gave England a 2-1 World Cup qualifying victory over Poland and top place in Group Six on Wednesday. Both sides had alr...

Comment

Friday Vernissage
Galeria SD Wilanow will showcase the work of the Palka Family – that’s right, generations of artistic talent under one roof! Witold Palka, born...

Art and Culture

A Close Run Thing
Poland's free-market enthusiast Donald Tusk won most votes in presidential elections on Sunday, putting him in the leading position for an October 23 run-off ag...

Current Affairs

Return Of The Moonstealers
Poland's presidential race is still wide open but conservative contender Lech Kaczynski already has something to celebrate -- a movie he starred in as a child w...

Comment

Puppets Sing Opera In Warsaw
The world famous Carlo Colla & Sons Puppet Theatre has come to Warsaw for a series of shows presenting Cinderella and Giuseppe Verdi’s “Aida”. The Warsaw pr...

Art and Culture

Bring On The Clowns
Thirty-two years after Jan Tomaszewski was famously dismissed as a clown before thwarting England’s World Cup dream, his Polish heir Jerzy Dudek has his sights ...

Comment

Transition Poles
Nearly a quarter of Poles are keen to go abroad in search of employment, a study published Wednesday reveals. The 'Social Diagnosis 2005' study revealed 22....

Comment

Kaczynski Stokes His Campaign
Warsaw readers of mass-circulation daily Gazeta Wyborcza were surprised by a colourful 30-page long pamphlet called 'Strategy for Warsaw' which was added to tod...

Current Affairs

Gardening On The Wrong Side Of The Law
Police from the central Polish city of Lodz found a plantation of over 300 marijuana bushes in one of the city's suburbs. The 29 year old owner of the plantatio...

Comment

Polanski Happier On European Shores
Director Roman Polanski is happy to have no part in the US movie scene, as he insists the European film industry is stronger than ever. Polanski, 72, argues ...

Comment

New Paper Amongst The Pigeons
Leading Polish media group Agora will launch a new nationwide daily in coming months and the project's high start-up costs will significantly depress its fourth...

Business

Environment Remains Stumbling Block
Poland could miss out on billions of euros in aid because the European Commission has doubts if the country's newly amended environment protection law meets EU ...

Current Affairs

Pope's Car Could Fetch Millions
THE 1975 powder-blue Ford Escort once owned and driven by Pope John Paul II will go up for auction later this month in Las Vegas after a father-son ownership sp...

Comment

Poles Under More Pressure In Belarus
The brother of a Polish minority leader in Belarus has been dismissed from work. Andzelika Borys, the democratically elected president of the organization of et...

Current Affairs

Stasi Spied On Present Pope
The former East German secret service considered Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, one of the most dangerous critics of communism and spied on h...

Current Affairs

Presidential Race No Walkover
The new Polish president will probably only be elected in the second round of elections later this month, sociologist Andrzej Rychard has told Polish Radio. ...

Current Affairs

Shady Banker On Trial
A trial has got underway in Poznan in the mid west of Poland of Piotr B. (name withheld) who is accused of having caused the bankruptcy of Bank Staropolski. ...

Current Affairs

Pope's Last Hours
Struggling to breathe, Pope John Paul II mumbled his final words weakly in Polish: "Let me go to the house of the Father." Six hours later, the comatose pontiff...

Current Affairs

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Comment

Champion Improving After Crash
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak of Poland was out of danger in hospital yesterday after sustaining injuries in a car crash at the weekend...

Current Affairs

15th Chopin Competition Starts
Dang Thai Son, the winner of the International Frederick Chopin Piano Competition 25 years ago is inaugurating the 15th edition of this prestigious event tonigh...

Comment

Tragedy For Olympic Hero
Olympic champion swimmer Otylia Jedrzejczak is recovering from head and spinal injuries in a car crash that killed her brother a day earlier. She was in stab...

Current Affairs

Talks Off To A Rocky Start
Polish centre-right parties clashed on Thursday at their first meeting to form a ruling coalition after winning Sunday's election, with signs a new government c...

Current Affairs

Poland Pays For Stalin's Actions
Poland will have to pay thousands of euros in compensation after the European Court of Human Rights accused it of breaking International laws. The case involves...

Current Affairs

Unearthing The Truth
Poland is willing, able and eager to conduct excavation missions for uncovering mass graves in Iraq upon the request of the Kuwaiti government and after obtaini...

Current Affairs

Tech Boom Predicted
Polish consumers lag in technology ownership and Internet usage, but they are likely to rapidly catch up with their Western European counterparts once incomes i...

Comment

Poland Tops Graduate Lists
Statistics show that Poland has the highest percentage of university graduates as a share of the under 30 population. Another one for the books in the latest Eu...

Comment

Physicist Will Be PM
Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, a former school principal turned economic adviser, is set to become Poland's new prime minister as he embarks on talks to form a new go...

Current Affairs

Mother Knows Best
Mother knows best, or at least that is the hope of Poles and foreign investors who worry about the victory of controversial conservative twins Lech and Jaroslaw...

Current Affairs

Final Election Results Out
Poland's socially conservative Law and Justice party held its lead over the market-oriented Civic Platform to win the country's parliamentary election, accordin...

Current Affairs

Polish Ladies Triumphant
Polish volleyball players have won the European Championships in Zagreb, Croatia, having beaten world champions - Italy 3-1 in the final. The Polish ladies have...

Comment

Victory For The Right
Poland's centre-right parties crushed the ruling left in parliamentary elections, early results showed on Monday, but faced tough coalition talks on splits over...

Comment

Poland In EU's Top Ten
Poland received 2.7 billion euro from the EU budget in 2004, which places Poland in the 10th place among all 25 EU member states. The number – reduced by Wa...

Current Affairs

Poet Celebrates 500th Birthday
Fans of old Polish culture are meeting in Warsaw for the Days of Old Polish Literature and Culture. The meeting commemorates the 500th anniversary of the birth ...

Comment

Tusk Edges Away In Election Race
Support for Donald Tusk increased dramatically this month in Poland, according to a poll by TNS OBOP. 49 per cent of respondents would vote for the Civic Platfo...

Current Affairs

Wizz Air Expands Polish Services
Wizz Air, Central and Eastern Europe`s largest low-fare, low-cost airline commenced services between London and Poznan , Poland and Budapest and Sofia, Bulgaria...

Business

Poles Mourn Wiesenthal
Polish Holocaust survivors and top politicians expressed regret over the death of the world's most famous Nazi-hunter Simon Wiesenthal, who has passed away in V...

Current Affairs

Idea Becomes Orange In Poland
Mobile operator Orange, a subsidiary of the France Telecom group, has announced the launch of the Orange brand in Poland. PTK (Polish Cellular Telephony) Ce...

Business