Supermarket Snipe
Poland's new finance minister fired a shot across the bows of Tesco saying retailers opening up hypermarkets in the country were not welcome. Teresa Lubinska wa...

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Copernicus Discovered In Polish Church
A Polish archaeologist claims to have found the skull of the father of modern astronomy, Nicolas Copernicus (1473- 1543). The apparent discovery was made i...

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Film Hotshot Back In The Clink
The Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List," who served part of a two-year prison sentence on bribery charges before being temporarily r...

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Platforma Opposes Government
Poland's pro-business party Civic Platform (Platforma Obywatelska) decided on Thursday to move into opposition, effectively forcing the minority conservative ca...

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Commie Police To Go
Poland’s new interior minister Ludwik Dorn has announced deep changes in the structure and work of the police force. High ranking police officers who were commu...

Current Affairs

Russians Love Poland
Russians are becoming increasingly attractive clients of the Polish tourism industry. Poland is among the most popular destinations among Russian citizens, who ...

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Scandal Looms Over Detention Camps
Speculation is mounting on the possible location of camps where the CIA interrogates al Qaeda suspects in eastern Europe, with Poland and Romania being earmarke...

Current Affairs

Cabbage Cure No Joke
Cabbage may be at the heart of why the breast cancer risk of Polish women triples after they immigrate to the United States, rising to match the rate of U.S.-bo...

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New Government Launched
A new conservative government with a pro-American stance took over Monday from former communists in Poland - although whether the new team will extend the count...

Current Affairs

Tricky Moment For Coalition Partners
“We have a crisis and we will try to solve it” stated Jan Rokita before his meeting with PM-designate Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz. Poland's conservative Law and...

Current Affairs

In With The New
Poland's conservatives, having captured the presidency, set a Saturday target for forging a government with pro-business allies. The Polish zloty fell on fears ...

Current Affairs

His Eminence Cardinal Saruman
When John Cleese took a 'serious' role in Kenneth Branagh's Frankenstein, the actor decided to have a special contraption attached to his jaw so that he would b...

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Pole Is Chopin Star For 2005
Twenty-year-old Rafal Blechacz has become the first Pole in 30 years to win the Chopin International Piano Competition, one of the world's most prestigious cont...

Art and Culture

Millions Due For Cracow's Tram System
Malopolska Region voivode together with Krakow Urban Transportation Company (MPK Krakow) signed a deal on closing the first level of integrated transport system...

City Focus

Kaczynski Wins Presidency
Conservative Lech Kaczynski won Poland's presidential run-off on Sunday on a platform combining traditionalist Catholic values with promises to curb corruption ...

Current Affairs

Ryanair Revs Up for Poland
Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline announced yesterday that with just 10 days to go to the launch of five more Polish destinations, Poland is set for a l...

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Premiere Of Papal Film
He may never have seen Oscar-winner Jon Voight as a male prostitute in "Midnight Cowboy," but Pope Benedict XVI will be among the first to see him portray the l...

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Border Crossing Blocked By 'Ants'
The Polish-Ukrainian border crossing at Medyka has been blocked by people engaged in small scale cross-border trade. The so-called “ants” are unhappy with new P...

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Parliament Honours Murdered Priest
Before suspending its first meeting, the Parliament adopted a resolution on the 21st anniversary of the death of the Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, who wa...

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Time To Check Out....
Poland's left-wing government led by Prime Minister Marek Belka resigned Wednesday as the lower house met in a brief first session following its solid shift to ...

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Remembering Those Who Gave All
The Institute of Strategic Studies, an NGO from Cracow, has initiated a research programme which aims to show the real number of Poles who died in the effort to...

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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

Full-time Rabbi For Krakow
The first rabbi to serve Krakow full-time since the Holocaust took up his post on Monday, a mission that includes guiding a revival of Jewish life and helping p...

City Focus

Polish Movie Wins Gold
The Polish film "My Nikifor" (Moj Nikifor) won the Gold Hugo, the top prize of the Chicago International Film Festival's international competition, at an awards...

Art and Culture

Polish Goalie Stays In Scotland
Poland goalkeeper Artur Boruc signed a 3-1/2-half year contract Monday to stay at Celtic through 2009. The 25-year-old Boruc, who joined Celtic this summer o...

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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...

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Art Horde About To Open
The Malopolska Foundation For A Contemporary Art Museum.  ‘Signs of the Time’  October 20 – November 27, 2005 The Malopolska Foundation For A Contemporary Ar...

Art and Culture

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...

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Anniversary of Elation
A colossal poster has been unfurled from the roof of the Archbishop's Palace. It's a fairly standard portrait of Pope John Paul II, who lived in this building f...

City Focus

Day Of Museums
Culture vultures will find dozens of museums open for free this Sunday (16th October). So if thunder cracks and lightening lashes, there will at least be some c...

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Troops Will Stay Until January
Poland will keep troops in Iraq through January, but then the new government will have to decide the course for the future, outgoing Polish President Aleksander...

Current Affairs

Autumnal Eden
OK, so here's little secret. One of the most magical autumnal destinations in Poland is just down the road from Cracow at Ojcow. You may hear other rural spots ...

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Vodka Sale Through
Central European Distribution Corporation (CEDC) has finally completed its purchase of a majority stake in Polmos Bialystok. The closure of the transaction brin...

Business

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

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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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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....

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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...

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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 ...

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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...

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