News & Views Directory 11

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Millions Earmarked For Polish Roads

Jan.26.2006

Poland will spend over 100 billion zlotys(more than 30 billion U.S.dollars) on the construction of new highways and motorways by 2013, announced Prime Minister ...

Rapid Railway Line From Tricity

Jan.26.2006

It will be the fastest railway line in Poland. EU will forward about 3 billion PLN (780 million euro) to Polish National Railway (PKP) to finance the change of ...

Life Inside The Igloo

Jan.25.2006

Coming from a country where everyone likes to talk about the weather, it's a relief to find that the Poles are joining in at the moment. The main consensus is t...

What Next For The Dude?

Jan.25.2006

Cologne have become the latest club willing to offer Jerzy Dudek an escape route out of Liverpool. The goalkeeper's agent yesterday claimed the German club a...

Poles Dig In Against Merger

Jan.25.2006

Poland is refusing to budge from its opposition to Unicredito Italiano SpA's plan to merge its Polish unit Bank Pekao with Poland's BPH, which Unicredito is acq...

Walesa Riles Castro

Jan.24.2005

U.S. diplomats arranged for Cuban dissidents to get a pep talk from former Polish President Lech Walesa on Saturday in the latest chapter of Washington's long-r...

Pole Revs Up For Formula One

Jan.23.2005

As temperatures continue to plummet, we thought we'd bring you news of a less freezing variety. Indeed, whilst motorists brave the snows and ice here in Polska,...

Question Mark Over Camps In Poland

Jan.24.2006

The head of a European investigation into alleged CIA secret prisons in Europe said Tuesday there was evidence the United States outsourced torture to other cou...

Pole Evicted From British Big Brother

Jan.23.2006

Polish actress Rula Lenska was given the boot from Britain's Celebrity Big Brother show last night. Lenska, a Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Fre...

Public Weary Of Political Mess

Jan.23.2006

One in four Poles consider that the best solution to the present political crisis would be a coalition of the ruling Law and Justice and the ‘liberal’ Civic Pla...

Krakow Star Set For Transfer

Jan.23.2005

Alan Pardew of England's West Ham hopes to sign a replacement for the out-going Repka within the next few days, and has lined up Poland international Marcin Bas...

Gold For Polish Ski-Surfer

Jan.23.2005

Jagna Marczulaitis of Poland edged Daniela Meuli of Switzerland to win the parallel slalom event at a snowboarding World Cup on Sunday. Sara Fischer of Swed...

Snowboard Showdown

Jan.23.2005

Jan Michaelis of Germany and Paulina Ligocka of Poland won snowboard World Cup halfpipe events Friday. Michaelis won his first event of the season ahead of ...

Poland On Steady European Course

Jan.23.2005

Poland's integration with the EU is very advanced and it is very improbable that Poland could have an EU-hostile government, Polish Foreign Minister Stefan Mell...

Poland To Host Miss World

Jan.19.2006

In these politically correct times, the British are somewhat awkward about their creation of the Miss World beauty contest. However, viewers have voted with the...

Poles Show Light At The End Of Tunnel

Jan.19.2006

A Dad of six is due to throw himself out of a plane to raise vital funds for his nephew's medical treatment. John Gibbens, from St. Mary Cray, England, is se...

Poland Trailing Euro Target

Jan.19.2005

Poland's Finance Ministry said the country would not be able to meet the fiscal requirements for adopting the euro before 2010. In an update of its euro conv...

Poet Passes On

Jan.19.2006

Polish priest and popular poet father Jan Twardowski has died in a hospital in Warsaw at the age of 90. His poetic debut came in 1936 with a small tome titl...

Pupils Hopping Mad

Jan.18.2005

The dragging renovation of the Main Market Square has begun to unnerve Cracow's university hopefuls. Before taking their 'Matura' examinations, examinees should...

Poles Keen On Indian Cuppa

Jan.18.2005

Poland expected India to emerge as a leading trade partner among developing nations, said Daniel S Zbytek, First Counsellor, Head of Economic and Commercial Off...

World's Best Square

Jan.16.2005

Projects For Public Spaces, a prestigious international organization, has declared Krakow's Rynek Glowny as the World's Best Square. Krakow triumphed over o...

Bargain Flights To Poland

Jan.13.2005

If you're on the look out for some great deals on flights to Poland, look no further. Centralwings, LOT Polish Airlines’ cut-price alter-ego, is offering fli...

Man Who Shot Pope Freed

Jan.12.2005

Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II, was released from his Turkish jail today after serving over 25 years behind bars. Agca was a right-wing ...

Uproar In Parliament

Jan.12.2005

The Polish Sejm (parliament) descended into farce yesterday when the Speaker of the House refused to set in motion a vote on the new budget. Opposition MPs c...

Warning About Icy Roads

Jan.12.2005

Weather forecasters have issued a warning that roads will be slippery in places as a cold atmospheric front is moving from western to southern Poland. The w...

AirBaltic Returns To Scene

Jan.12.2005

AirBaltic, the low-cost airline owned by the Latvian treasury (52.6 percent) and SAS (47.2 percent) is going to restart its routes to Poland. The company has...

'The Sausage' Is Unsure Of Birmingham

Jan.12.2005

Korona Kielce striker Grzegorz Piechna has decided to stay at the club for at least the next six months, despite Birmingham's interest in trialling him. The ...

Pole Joins Potter Adventure

Jan.11.2005

Oscar nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak has won the commission to film the next Harry Potter movie, 'The Order of the Phoenix.' Idziak, who won fame ...

New Bus Station In Business

Jan.11.2005

After months of chaos Cracow's bus station has reopened. It's goodbye to the temporary dive on ul. Cysterstow and hello to a brand spanking new number just behi...

Zaniewski Show Opens

Jan.11.2005

A new exhibition opened today in the Arsenal of the Czartoryski Museum. The show presents paintings by Iwo Zaniewski, who graduated from Warsaw's Academy of Art...

Freedom Balloons Will Fly Over Belarus

Jan.14.2002

One thousand coloured balloons will soar to Belarus from Bialystok, northeast Poland next Monday in support of democratic change in the country, the Polish bran...

Vatican Turns On Hardliners

Jan.11.2005

The Vatican has issued a document imposing discipline upon the clergy in Poland. Their public activity outside the church now requires written permission from b...

Polish Countess Meets Big Brother

Jan.10.2006

A Polish Countess whose father once led Radio Free Europe has taken her place in Britain's notorious Celebrity Big Brother House. Rula Lenska (b.1947, Cambr...

Bumper Year For Polish Tourism

Jan.10.2005

The Polish Tourism Institute has estimated that 2005 was the most successful year of the decade for the growing industry. It has been calculated that some 64...

Pope Plans Polish Trip

Jan.9.2005

The Vatican envoy for papal tours Alberto Gasparri arrived in Poland today with the aim of touring the route of the planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI to that c...

Museum Sets Ball In Motion

Jan.9.2005

The first step towards a thorough renovation of Poland's oldest and most distinguished museum has been taken. Cracow's Czartoryski Museum, famous as the home of...

Charity Event Reaches All Time High

Jan.9.2005

Poland‘s largest charity fundraising event the Grand Orchestra of Charity Help, which involved over 120 thousand volunteers in the streets of all Polish cities ...

Sock It To Us

Jan.6.2005

A poll has revealed that the Christmas present that Poles hate the most is a pair of socks. This was closely followed by abstract ornaments of the kind that mig...

Polish Maestro Takes Tokyo

Jan.6.2005

An injury to his hands in World War II cut short Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's career as a concert pianist. But the 82-year-old composer and conductor, who has left...

Ten ambassadors recalled

Jan.5.2006

Poland’s new conservative right wing government has recalled ten ambassadors believed to be linked with the former communist regime. Diplomats who have held pos...

Easyjet links with Lennon

Jan.5.2006

Budget airline Easyjet yesterday launched flight links to four new destinations from Liverpool John Lennon Airport. Holidaymakers and business travellers wil...

Krakow New Year

Dec.31.2005

The snow has been cleared from the Market Square, the sound tests are coming to an end on the stage set up to entertain the visitors with local music acts, and ...

Borderlands Rediscovered

Dec.16.2005

Any newcomer to Cracow will be quick to spot the obwarzanki (pretzel) sellers that dot the Old Town. These hardy old grandpas and grandmas are to be found on ev...

Carol Day

Dec.16.2005

All traces of snow seem to have vanished but never fear - there's still plenty of yuletide cheer to savour. Tomorrow (Saturday 17th) sees a special Carol Day on...

White Eagles

Dec.15.2005

It wouldn't be too much to say that being dubbed a Knight of the White Eagle is something akin to being dubbed a Knight of the Round Table. The 300 year old ord...

Priests Learn Defense Tactics

Dec. 16.2005

Polish police have conducted a training course for Roman Catholic parish priests on how to protect their churches against robberies and acts of terrorism. Accor...

Fading From Memory

Dec.16.2005

13th of December marks the 24th anniversary of the introduction of martial law in Poland, a date which is an important one in the pages of Polish history. Howev...

'He Had Plenty Of Spirit'

Dec.12.2005

A 111-year-old pensioner, thought to be the oldest man living in Britain, has died. Former Polish army colonel Jerzy Pajaczkowski-Dydynski, who was known to ...

Brit Wins Polish Reality TV Romp

Dec.12.2005

A British man has been chosen as the winner of Bar Europa, the Polish version of TV's Big Brother. Tom Amos, 28, from Malvern, Worcs, entered the contest as ...

Her Majesty's Joker In A Twist

Dec.12.2005

A top British ambassador has risked sparking a diplomatic row after a stinging attack on France and Poland over European Union farm subsidies made in a "joke" e...

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