Poland Tops Investment List
According to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) European Attractiveness Survey, Poland holds the fourth place in the world and the first in Europe with respect to attractive...

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Hot Culture In Kazimierz
Summer Film Festival in Kazimierz Dolny 2005 'Wysokie Temperatury Filmowe' The quaint riverside town of Kazimierz Dolny has long been a favourite weekend ...

Art and Culture

World Record For Polish Girl
Poland’s Otylia Jedrzejczak broke her own world record to win the women’s 200 metres butterfly final at the World Championhips in Montreal. She overtook Aus...

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British Historian Honoured
British historian Professor Norman Davies is to be honoured today by the Union of the Warsaw Insurgents of 1944. Davies' recent book 'Rising 44' about the Polis...

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Belarusian Force Storms Polish Union
Belarussian special forces stormed a building used by ethnic Poles in a pre-dawn raid on Thursday near the border with Poland, a witness said. It is the la...

Current Affairs

A John Paul II Holiday?
Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to support a measure that will establish a national day to honour the late Pope John Paul II. The lower house, or S...

Current Affairs

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???
Germany's BASF and the Russian firm Gazprom are in the advanced stages of planning an oil pipeline that would connect the two nations by way of the Baltic Sea. ...

Current Affairs

Unemployment Down .3 Percent
Unemployment in Poland has dropped to 18 per cent from 18.3 in May. Still, according to the figures released by the General Statistical office, 2 million 800 th...

Business

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal
The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski ...

Current Affairs

Revelations From Polanski Temptress
The model at the centre of Roman Polanski's successful libel suit against Vanity Fair says the filmmaker never tried to seduce her. Polanski on Friday won h...

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Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012
UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012, European soccer's governing body announced in a statement on Friday. They comp...

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Belarusian Press Slams Poland
The pro-government Belarusian media blames Poland and the Union of Poles in Belarus for the ongoing diplomatic dispute between Warsaw and Minsk. The biggest gov...

Current Affairs

Bid For Polish Mobile Stake
Britain's Vodafone and Denmark's TDC have made an offer for a controlling stake in Polish mobile phone operator Polkomtel, an advisor to Poland's treasury minis...

Business

Polanski Wins Libel Case
Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame...

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Belarusian Problem Spirals
Polish authorities have suggested they could toss a Belarusian diplomat out of the country and hinted at visa troubles for Belarusians in the latest installment...

Current Affairs

Jury Retires In Polanski Case
The judge in Roman Polanski's libel case against Vanity Fair magazine told jurors Thursday they should not focus on the filmmaker's lifestyle as they deliberate...

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Sport Star Passes Away
Andrzej Grubba, Poland’s most successful table tennis player of all time, has died at the age of 47 after an unsuccessful struggle against cancer. His top s...

Current Affairs

Happy Bastille Day!
The great liberation of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 was in fact more of a symbolic than a numerical victory. Only seven miserable souls happened to be holed ...

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60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.
Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t...

History

A Price To Pay
Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid. The promised 100 million US dollars will be use...

Current Affairs

Farrow Fights For Polanski
Roman Polanski was so consumed with grief after his wife's brutal murder he was unable to think or talk about anything else, actress Mia Farrow said Tuesday, de...

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Jewish Museum Plan Set
The construction of the Museum of the History of Polish Jews will commence already in 2006. The government has approved a schedule till 2009, when the museum is...

City Focus

New Steel Plants For Poland
Mittal Steel Poland, the country's steel giant, agreed yesterday to build a hot rolling plant in Krakow and a new continuous caster in Dabrowa Gornicza, the new...

Business

Polish Mushroom Hit
"Poland has gained a reputation for producing exceptional quality, low-cost mushrooms,'' says John Smith, Chairman of major UK supplier, Northern Mushrooms. ...

Business

Polanski In The Dock
Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ...

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Poles Support EU Enlargement
Poles, just like the nationals of other new EU member states, are more open towards further enlargement of the bloc than the citizens of old member states. ...

Current Affairs

Poles Killed In London Blasts
The identity has been confirmed of another Polish woman killed in the recent terrorist attacks in London. 29-year-old Karolina Gluck was on one of the train...

Current Affairs

Diplomat Gets The Elbow
Belarus said yesterday it is expelling a Polish diplomat, in the latest diplomatic tit-for-tat expulsion between the two neighbours. Belarus has given Andrze...

Current Affairs

Medieval Showdown Relived
Today marks the 595th anniversary of the battle of Grunwald, the biggest armed clash of medieval Europe, when the forces of Polish King Ladislaus Jagiello toget...

History

Former Policeman Held Over Hoax
The Polish police arrested Thursday a former police employee suspected of being involved in two bomb hoaxes which led to the shutdown and evacuation of the subw...

City Focus

Germans Nervous Of Would-Be President
The influential German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claims that a victory of Lech Kaczynski in the coming presidential elections may change Polish-Germa...

Current Affairs

Polish Triumph At Film Festival
The Polish film 'Nikifor' stole the show at the 40th Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week in the Czech Republic. The film tells the 'true life tale' of a cur...

Art and Culture

Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain
Exorcists from all over the world have convened in the Jasna Gora shrine in the central Polish city of Czestochowa. The meeting is closed to the media, and no d...

Comment

Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists
Joining the seductive "plumber", an alluring "nurse" on Tuesday debuted in Poland's tongue-in-cheek tourism campaign launched last month in a humorous response ...

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Metro Evacuated In Warsaw
Warsaw authorities evacuated the city's only underground line on Tuesday following a bomb threat, but the mayor said he suspected the threat was a hoax. Pola...

Current Affairs

Poles Missing In London
Eighteen Poles are still missing Monday after last week's bomb attack on London, Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld confirmed Monday. Speaking to...

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Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last
Almost three hundred Polish veterans took part in a grand victory parade in London yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. ...

Current Affairs

Extradition Row Runs On
Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecut...

Current Affairs

Polanski Fights With Vanity
Mia Farrow is key witness in a libel action filed in London by director Roman Polanski against Conde Nast, the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The Polish ...

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Poles Flock To The Cloth
Poles already make up a quarter of Europe's Roman Catholic clergy and interest in vocation for the priesthood is on the rise after the death of compatriot Pope ...

Current Affairs

Former PM Edges Into Lead
Former prime minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has become the new favourite in the Polish presidential election, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpos...

Current Affairs

Backlash Over Vodka Sale
The Polish Treasury has been accused of lacking transparency in its sell-off of Polmos Bialystok. Sobieski Dystrybucja, which lost out on the majority stake in ...

Business

Polish War Efforts Revealed
Polish foreign minister Adam Rotfeld considers the report on Poland’s contribution to the Allied victory in World War Two compiled by the joint Polish-British c...

History

Only 1000 Miles To Go!
A group of 30 participants in the Peking to Paris car rally are crossing the Polish-German border in Kostrzyn on the Oder. They are travelling in four replicas ...

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Vodka Giant To Leave Polish Hands
The Polish government has agreed to sell its leading distillery, Polmos Bialystok, the producer of the Zubrowka (Bison Grass) vodka brand, to US spirits distrib...

Business

Economy Set For Major Growth
Economic growth in Poland and Hungary will pick up in the second half and the Czech economy will expand at almost four times the pace of the euro region as cons...

Business

First Lady On Fresh Campaign
Literally overnight she has become the most talked-about face in Poland's presidential campaign, but First Lady Jolanta Kwasniewska is not even running for offi...

Comment

Finnish Design Wins Contest
An austere Nordic design in glass and limestone was chosen Thursday for Warsaw's new Jewish museum — a rectangular building with a jagged passageway. The Mu...

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Jewish Museum Selects Star
A Jewish history museum being built in the Polish capital was due to choose an architect for the project this Thursday from among finalists who include prominen...

Art and Culture

Ian Holm To Play Pope John Paul II
Ian Holm will play Pope John Paul II in the upcoming CBS biopic about the late pontiff, reports Variety. The four-hour miniseries is on track for a debut as ear...

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