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...

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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...

Art and Culture

Polish Plumber Holds Press Conference
The Polish tourism office in Paris organized a press conference yesterday with the infamous Polish plumber who was one of the reasons why the French rejected t...

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Pope Coins A Runaway Hit
Poles lined up Wednesday to buy collectors' coins with the image of the late Pope John Paul II, issued by the central bank to honor Poland's most famous son. ...

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Austrian In Choppy Water Over Polish Remark
The Vienna city council on Wednesday lifted the immunity of a politician who suggested that Nazi gas chambers were found in Poland, but not anywhere else in the...

Current Affairs

Poles Are Anti Ads
Around 80% of Poles do not approve of advertising while three –quarters define it as boring and irritating. According to the recent poll conducted by the CBOS c...

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Ukrainian Airline In The Running
According to Puls Biznesu information, the most likely candidate to service internal flights in Poland is a Ukrainian airline. "A few foreign enterprises, f...

Business

Saucy Plumber Seduces French
Poland could have taken offence when French critics of the proposed European constitution, fearing a flood of migrant workers from eastern Europe, made the "Pol...

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Sainthood Path Officially Launched
Pope John Paul, considered a saint by many Roman Catholics even before he died in April, was formally launched on the road towards sainthood on Tuesday. A si...

Current Affairs

Becks Beer Bounds Onto Market
Brewer InBev SA said it has formed a partnership with PepsiAmericas Inc to sell and distribute its flagship beer brand Beck's in Poland. The group said Beck...

Business

Mayor Convicted Of Slander
Lech Kaczynski, the mayor of Warsaw and a leading presidential candidate, was convicted Friday of slander - a ruling that could force his resignation. The c...

Current Affairs

Reflections On Cemetery Opening
Minister of Foreign Affairs Adam Daniel Rotfeld has attributed the successful opening of the Polish [1919 war] cemetery in Lviv on Friday [24 June] to Poland's ...

Current Affairs

Fresh Start For Poles And Ukrainians
‘The official opening ceremony of the cemetery in Lviv, today’s Ukraine, of young Polish freedom fighters who lost their lives in the Polish-Ukrainian war of 19...

Current Affairs

Cows on Parade
Have you 'herd'? The Cow Parade, the largest public art exhibition which has appeared in cities across the globe, is here in the capital city! Local artist...

City Focus

Ryanair Launches New Routes To Poland
Ryanair Holdings PLC, the Irish based budget airline, has launched new routes to Grenoble in France, Lodz and Poznan in Poland aswell as Kaunas in Lithuania, wh...

Business

Parade of 'Normality'
Some 800 people marched through the streets of Warsaw in an anti-gay demonstration on Saturday. The parade was an answer to last week’s Equality Parade for gays...

Current Affairs

Hope For Poorest Regions
Poland could benefit to the tune of EUR 900 (zl.3,635) million from a new EU fund to help areas suffering most from unemployment. The fund was actually propo...

Current Affairs

Call For Reconciliation
A beatification mass of three Polish priests was held in Warsaw this morning. An important element of the ceremony was a joint prayer for the reconciliation bet...

Current Affairs

Right Wing Answer To Gay Parade
Members of the right-wing All Polish Youth organisation intend to organize a Normality Parade this coming Saturday. One of their leaders informed the media that...

Current Affairs

Saddam Looks To Poland
Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein say the deposed Iraqi dictator wants his case to be tried in Sweden or Poland instead of Iraq where he faces the death penalt...

Current Affairs

Landmark Case Adjourned
The European Court of Human Rights has adjourned the case of Broniowski v. Poland pending the outcome of friendly settlement negotiations on the question of jus...

Current Affairs

Poles On Path To Sainthood
Pope Benedict XVI has moved another step away from beatification ceremonies, asking Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw to preside in Poland over the beatification o...

Current Affairs

Tragic Turn To Memorial Day
Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp took a sad turn when one of the passengers, an 85...

Current Affairs

First Transit To Auschwitz
Commemorations began today in the southern city of Tarnow in tribute to the first victims of the Auschwitz camps. 65 years ago this week, 728 Polish citizens we...

History

Twins Lead Political Race
The identical twins first entered the spotlight as child actors playing a pair of rascals who mend their naughty ways. Now, the Kaczynski brothers are promising...

Current Affairs

Vets On Wheels
A veterinary clinic on wheels has arrived in the city of Lodz, central Poland, offering free check-ups for dogs. The huge truck, which boasts three consultancy ...

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Gay Rally Defies Ban
More than 2,000 people defied a ban on a gay-rights rally in Poland's capital, taking to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday against the orders of the city's cons...

Current Affairs

Boost For Polish-Ukrainian Cup Bid
Ukraine's FFU has published an appeal to the media asking to support Ukraine’s and Poland’s joint bid to host Euro-2012 football finals. The Federation believe...

Current Affairs

Intelligence Ignored
A new offiicial report on Second World War Intelligence has spotlighted what Poles have been aware of for some sixty years now - namely that the British governm...

Current Affairs

Leaders Meet On The Vistula
The prime ministers of four of the European Union's central European members have urged the bloc to push on with ratification of the EU constitution. The pr...

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Mystery Airline Set To Launch
It is likely that by the fall one will be able to fly directly between regional airports at a cost below zl.300 per flight. These are the foundations of a pr...

Current Affairs

Pressure Mounts On Pride March
The International Lesbian & Gay Association is urging the European Union to intervene in a decision by the mayor of Warsaw to ban gay Pride celebrations for the...

Current Affairs

Dziwisz Defends Decision
John Paul II's longtime private secretary defended on Wednesday his decision not to burn the pope's papers as the pontiff's will instructed, saying the pope had...

Current Affairs

Vodka Fat Cat In The Doldrums
The sale of the majority stake in Polmos Bialystok is yet to be settled, according to local reports. Speaking to reporters in Poland yesterday, Treasury Ministe...

Business

Sharing A Shady Past
Polish and German institutes holding sensitive communist-era secret police archives have agreed to share historic documents which may shed light on some of the ...

Current Affairs

Stasi Agent Spied On Solidarity
An agent working for communist East Germany's feared Stasi secret police spied on Poland's communist-era Solidarity opposition during the 1980s, Polish Televisi...

Current Affairs

Young Eagles
An historic Polish cemetery in the Ukrainian city of Lviv will be officially opened on June 24 after a protracted tug-of-war between Poland and Ukraine. Some 3,...

Current Affairs

More Wobbles For EU Constitution
Poland dealt a fresh blow to the European Union's wounded constitution on Tuesday, saying it may delay a planned referendum despite efforts by France, which vot...

Current Affairs

Poles Appeal To Brits
Poland on Monday called on Britain to keep alive the European Union charter's ratification process by not shelving plans to hold a referendum on the issue. D...

Current Affairs

Hapless Hejmo Denies Informing
A Polish priest denied Monday that he intentionally collaborated with communist authorities in the 1980s while close to Pope John Paul II's entourage, but he ap...

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John Paul's Last Request
Pope John Paul II's longtime private secretary has revealed that he did not burn the late pontiff's notes as his will demanded, arguing that the papers containe...

Current Affairs

Poles Triumph In Qualifier
Poland overcame Azerbaijan 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier to go top of Group Six on Saturday. Three goals proved too much for Azerbaijan's Brazilian coach Carl...

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Back To Business For Dudek
Goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek must get his mind off 10 days of media hype around Liverpool's Champions League win and back on Saturday's World Cup qualifier away to Az...

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Hero Goalie Considers Future
Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek cannot imagine leaving Anfield after his penalty shootout heroics helped the team to Champions League victory last week, a Poli...

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Report Released On 'Collaborator'
Investigators published a report Wednesday offering new details of allegations that a priest was an informer for Poland's communist government while he was clos...

Current Affairs

Film Crew Runs Into Russian Trouble
A Polish diplomat from the Moscow Embassy has gone to Ingushetia to investigate the circumstances relating to the detention of three Polish television journalis...

Current Affairs

Beatification Process Begins
The process of beatifying Pope John Paul II - the first step toward possible sainthood - has officially begun with an edict inviting testimony from witnesses ab...

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Film Producer Freed
The Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" left prison Tuesday after an appeals court suspended his two-year term in a high-profile bri...

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