News & Views Directory 12

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Petrescu signs up as Wisla Krakow's coach

Dec.09.2005

Petrescu played for Chelsea between 1995 and 2000 Dan Petrescu has been confirmed as the new head coach of reigning Polish champions Wisla Krakow. The ex-C...

Pope's House Up For Sale

Dec.9.2005

The late Pope John Paul II's house in Wadowice has been put up for sale by its owner, an American Jew, for one million dollars. According to the daily Gazet...

If You Can't Beat 'Em

Dec.7.2005

Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi...

Poland Under The Spotlight

Dec.7.2005

News portals are being deluged with articles reasserting that the CIA has secret holding camps in Eastern Europe for top terror suspects. The issue returned...

Photo Flourish

Dec.7.2005

Internet junkies can enjoy a pleasing perk in the New Year at Cracow's leading cybercafe on the main market square. 'Internet Cafe' (Rynek Glowny 23/3) will be...

Winning Wonders Now On Show

Dec.5.2005

The winners of this year's Szopki (Christmas Nativity Scene) Competition were announced yesterday in the splendid Fontana Hall of the Cracow History Museum. ...

Tragic Fire In Kazimierz

Dec.5.2005

Three people died and twenty were injured over the weekend as a fire raged through a townhouse in the Cracovian district of Kazimierz. Alarms were raised ju...

Pardon Confirmed For Gangster Killer

Dec.5.2005

A Polish businessman jailed for the beheading of two gangsters who were blackmailing him is to receive a pardon after serving 10 years in prison, an aide to Pre...

Prince Sponsors Jewish Centre

Dec.2.2005

The World Jewish Relief organisation is to build a centre for the Jewish community in Krakow under the patronage of Britain’s Prince Charles, a community offici...

EU Shock Up For Debate

Dec.2.2005

Poorer European Union newcomers may agree to a reduction in the aid they receive from the bloc's coffers but not to as big a cut as current EU president Britain...

Tragic Saga of Swimming Champ

Dec.2.2005

Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash. H...

Christmas Competition Kicks Off

Dec.1.2006

The celebrated Christmas Nativity Scene competition (Szopki) was launched this morning as hundreds of Cracovians, young and old, gathered around the tower of th...

Settling Scores

Dec.1.2005

The Auschwitz-Birkenau Museum on the site of the former Nazi death camp in southern Poland has purchased a collection of musical scores that belonged to the cam...

Poles in the Steppe

Dec.1.2005

Some 60,000 ethnic Poles live in the central Asian republic of Kazakhstan. They found themselves there against their will in 1936 in an act of Stalin's ethnic c...

A Dash of Winter Magic

Nov.30.2005

A sprinkling of seasonal magic will descend on the Market Square tomorrow morning (Thursday 1st) as the annual Christmas Nativity Scene competition gets underwa...

Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'

Nov.30.2005

Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the award of the prestigious European weekly European Voice as statesman of the year 2005.T he Polish head of state has been...

If You Go Down To The Woods Today

Nov.30.2005

Polish and German football hooligans met in a wood near Frankfurt an der Oder to fight for the control of Berlin during the coming EURO 2006 Championships. Over...

Poland Piqued By Tony's Plan

Nov.30.2005

Poland's president said Tuesday that Britain's latest proposals for a long-term EU budget were bad for Poland and Europe, insisting that economic aid promised t...

Vatican Reveals Miraculous Lead

Nov.30.2005

Krakow's Roman Catholic archbishop spoke Tuesday of a possible miracle performed by Pope John Paul II in France that a church tribunal will focus on as the Vati...

Warsaw Pact A Pandora's Box

Nov.28.2005

Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”...

The Quest For The Golden Frog

Nov.28.2005

A gala at the Grand Theatre in Lodz has inaugurated the International Film Art Festival “Camerimage”. During the opening celebrations a special award of meri...

Rallying For Tolerance

Nov.28.2005

A rally in support of equal rights for sexual minorities in Poland has taken place in downtown Warsaw. The several hundred peaceful demonstrators were joine...

150th Anniversary of best-loved poet

Nov.25.2005

He may never have set foot in Cracow but his popularity was such that his statue was given centre stage in the city's grand market square. That very monument wa...

Warsaw Pact Secrets To Be Revealed

Nov.25.2005

Poland today followed through on a promise to open secret files of the Warsaw Pact. Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said some of the documents indi...

Krakow leads solidarity marches

Nov.25.2005

Peaceful marches of solidarity with gays are to be staged in a number of Polish cities this weekend. Demonstrations in solidarity with Poznan, where police were...

Winding up in Iraq?

Nov.15.2005

Poland will withdraw its troops from Iraq in 2006 but it may move the deadline for withdrawal from January to mid-year, Polish Defense Minister Radoslaw Sikorsk...

President congratulates Ukraine

Nov.24.2005

Poland’s outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski has said that Ukraine has made a big step forward and is today different and better than a year ago, when the...

Market Set To Open

Nov.24.2005

November is usually a terribly depressing month. There are the grey skies, the rain, the endless crows going awk, awk, awk.... Yet this years Zloty Jesien (Gold...

Plumbing Gaps But Not Taps

Nov.24.2005

Nearly three million migrants from central Europe have applied for work in the UK since EU enlargement last year – and not all of them are working as plumbers. ...

Polish Ukrainian Tete-a-Tete

Nov.24.2005

Poland’s outgoing president Aleksander Kwasniewski is in Kiev for talks summing up the development of Polish-Ukrainian relations, as well as the situation in Uk...

Poles Rally For Belarusian Cause

Nov.23.2005

An action under the motto: “Freedom of speech in Belarus”” began in Poland today. The action was initiated by Amnesty International and aims at bringing into fo...

Survivors Meet After 60 Years

Nov.23.2005

A survivor of the Holocaust is to be reunited with the Polish family that saved her 60 years ago. Ruth Gruener, whose father ran a confectionery shop in the ...

Skies Open For SkyEurope

Nov.23.2005

Budget airline SkyEurope is expanding its Krakow services with a range of flights to some of Europe's most appealing cities. Plans are afoot to launch new fligh...

Major Gallery Open For Business

Nov.23.2005

The National Museum's Gallery of 20th Century Polish Art reopened this weekend after six years in the doldrums. Although the project seemed to drag on inter...

Easyjet flying high

Nov.23.2005

British budget airline easyJet beat forecasts with a 9 percent rise in annual profits on Tuesday as new routes, rising fares and cost cuts eased the pain of so...

Several small steps for man.....

Nov.23.2005

Krzysztof Dzienniak, a well known social activist, has set out from Zgorzelec, a city on the Polish-German border, to Leverkusen – the headquarters of Bayer, th...

Hullabaloo As League Uses Shock Tactics

Nov.23.2005

An anti-abortion exhibition organized at the European Parliament by an ultraconservative group of Polish representatives has provoked scuffles between rival MEP...

Expats Have Pole Position

Nov.11.2005

Poland ranks as one of the cheapest countries to live for expats, whereas Norway is the most expensive. In a recent survey comparing the cost of living for e...

Star Attraction Reopens!

Nov.18.2005

After six years of umming, ahhing and god know's what else, Cracow's Gallery of 20th Century Art is finally reopening this weekend. Cracow has been derided in t...

Papal Premiere Stirs Hearts

Nov.18.2005

Pope Benedict and Oscar winner Jon Voight attended a special screening on Thursday of a television mini-series in which Voight plays the late Pope John Paul. ...

Poland To Hold Missile Base?

Nov.19.2005

The United States is holding talks with Poland about establishing a military base there to shoot down long-range missiles fired from the Middle East or Africa t...

Greenpeace Blocks Ship

Nov.18.2005

Rough seas on Thursday forced Greenpeace activists to give up a blockade of a ship they say carried 25,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentinian soya...

Cowboy Reflects On Papal Role

Nov.17.2005

For Jon Voight, the actor who shot to fame 36 years ago as an aspiring stud in "Midnight Cowboy," playing Pope John Paul was like a personal coming home. "I'...

Russian Ban Causes Rumpus

Nov.16.2005

Polish authorities declared that Russia's ban on food imports was costing its agricultural industry $1 million per day in lost revenues, as Polish Foreign Minis...

Survivors find hidden treasures

Nov.16.2005

Four survivors of the Holocaust have found jewellery and other precious objects which they and other prisoners buried some 62 years ago near Majdanek death camp...

Fly From Lennon to Lech

Nov.16.2005

Budget airline Wizz Air is to start flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the Polish city of Gdansk. The carrier, which in less than 12 months has c...

Walesa's innocence confirmed

Nov.15.2005

The Institute of National Remembrance should soon confirm that any accusations against Lech Walesa are false. A special written confirmation will be handed in p...

Dudek's High Hopes For Poland

Nov.15.2005

Jerzy Dudek believes Poland can be the surprise package at next year's World Cup in Germany and is sure the proximity of Germany will guarantee plenty of travel...

Fat Bills For Fighter Pilots

Nov.15.2005

Colonel Roscislaw Stepaniuk is the first Polish pilot trained to fly the new F-16 fighter planes. Colonel Stepaniuk completed his seven months’ training in Tucs...

Metal Guitarist Goes AWOL

Nov.15.2005

According to an article in the Polish newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza, Mortician vocalist/bassist Will Rahmer was arrested by the Polish police after threatening a ta...

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