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 ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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‘Today’ starts tomorrow!
Finally Krakow looks to be getting the mid-week party that a city of its size and reputation deserves! ‘Today’ is all set to be a riotous affair of booze and an...

City Focus

Art By The Handicapped
Even if you devoted an entire week to doing nothing but exploring Cracow's museums and galleries, the chances are that you'd still have only scratched the surfa...

Art and Culture

Leader Reopens Hornets Nest
Poland's conservative candidate for prime minister was quoted on Monday as saying homosexuality was "unnatural", echoing earlier statements by the leaders of hi...

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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...

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Looted Art Returns To Cracow
America's Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will return to Poland a 16th-century Flemish painting looted by the Nazis during World War II. Jan Mostaert's "Portrait ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Kingsley Inspired by Krakow Project
Sir Ben Kingsley used a stash of photographs he picked up on the set of Schindler's List in Krakow, to inspire his makeover as Dickensian Jew Fagin in Roman Pol...

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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...

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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...

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Autumn Festivals In Cracow
These intros are just a brief roundup of what's happening this Autumn - for a full, day by day calendar, please click away on our events calendar.! FESTI...

Art and Culture

Engel Sale In Cracow
Engel Europe has signed an MOU for the sale of a 5,100-sq.m. building in Krakow, Poland for NIS 40 million. Completion of the deal will give Engel Europe a NIS ...

Business

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...

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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...

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Dudek Back In The Running
Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek will return to Poland for their October 12 World Cup qualifier against England, the Polish Football Association's website said ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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 ...

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Retro Party Ready For Lift Off!
Stalin quipped that communizing Poland was like trying to saddle a cow. Well, this Friday the cow (or noble, wild stallion according to old school Poles) will s...

City Focus

Krakow Kangaroo Theft
Visitors to a Polish zoo became so besotted by a friendly kangaroo they stole it, police have claimed. Officials say they are searching for at least two thie...

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Wiesenthal Honoured in Vienna
Political leaders, diplomats and the young and old of all faiths bade farewell to Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal on Wednesday, paying tribute to his lifelong purs...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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

Famed Nazi Hunter Passes Away
Simon Wiesenthal, the Holocaust survivor who helped track down numerous Nazi war criminals following World War II then spent the later decades of his life fight...

History

Festival Honours Wajda
Film director Andrzej Wajda has received the Platinum Lions during the Festival of Polish films which has just wound up at the coastal city of Gdynia. The great...

Art and Culture

Poland Championed As Investment Hit
British economic newspaper The Financial Times claims that Poland is becoming a more and more attractive place for foreign investments. The new trend has re...

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Smugglers Of Space Dust
An unusual attempt at smuggling was uncovered at the Polish-Ukrainian boarder crossing in Dorohusk. The truck driver claimed that he had a load of quartz, yet t...

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Zurawski Wants To Stun England
Poland striker Maciej Zurawski aims to cap off his World Cup qualifying campaign by heaping further misery on Sven-Goran Eriksson. The Celtic forward has hit...

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15 Year Old Space Ace
Piotr Bednarek, a 15 year old boy from Central Polish city of Czestochowa, has discovered a planetoid. The boy analysed photographs of outer space made by a...

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President Tours America
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has begun a week-long visit to the United States. The Polish president’s itinerary includes delivering lectures at local politi...

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Poland's Leader Concerned About Ukraine
‘Ukraine cannot afford to waste what it gained in the course of the Orange revolution’, said Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski. Speaking at the Euro...

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Polish Days In Austria
The annual Polish Days in Austria have begun in Vienna under honorary patronage of both countries prime ministers. By the end of October nearly 30 events will h...

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Putin-Schroeder Pact!
A good deal of the misery in Poland's past can be traced to its location between Germany and Russia. These days, people talk an awful lot about Globalization an...

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Poland On Ukrainian Crisis
President Aleksander Kwasniewski is convinced that the sacking of the Ukrainian government will not affect relations between Warsaw and Kiev. The developments i...

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Pole Is Oldest European at 118
118 year old Jozef Piotrowski is the oldest Pole and the oldest European. Born in 1887, he is still in fairly good form, though he cannot walk. He has never smo...

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Twins Slip In Struggle For Votes
They were the stars of a popular movie as children but as adult conservative politicians, Poland's identical twins Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski seem eternally co...

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