Happy Bastille Day!
The great liberation of the Bastille on 14th July 1789 was in fact more of a symbolic than a numerical victory. Only seven miserable souls happened to be holed ...

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Schindler Factory Shall Open
It wouldn't be too much to suggest that a film director generally famed for making movies about sharks, aliens and dinosaurs has done more to raise awareness fo...

City Focus

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.
Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t...

History

A Price To Pay
Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid. The promised 100 million US dollars will be use...

Current Affairs

Farrow Fights For Polanski
Roman Polanski was so consumed with grief after his wife's brutal murder he was unable to think or talk about anything else, actress Mia Farrow said Tuesday, de...

Comment

New Steel Plants For Poland
Mittal Steel Poland, the country's steel giant, agreed yesterday to build a hot rolling plant in Krakow and a new continuous caster in Dabrowa Gornicza, the new...

Business

Polish Mushroom Hit
"Poland has gained a reputation for producing exceptional quality, low-cost mushrooms,'' says John Smith, Chairman of major UK supplier, Northern Mushrooms. ...

Business

Polanski In The Dock
Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ...

Comment

Cracow Girl Wins Wimbledon
Could a Pole be the next star of Womens Tennis? Polish sport pundits are hoping for just that after Cracovian tennis ace Agnieszka Radwanska won this years Wimb...

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Poles Support EU Enlargement
Poles, just like the nationals of other new EU member states, are more open towards further enlargement of the bloc than the citizens of old member states. ...

Current Affairs

Poles Killed In London Blasts
The identity has been confirmed of another Polish woman killed in the recent terrorist attacks in London. 29-year-old Karolina Gluck was on one of the train...

Current Affairs

Finnair Flies To Cracow
Finnair is starting direct flights to Cracow in spring 2006. Passengers from Asia and Europe are offered fast connections via Helsinki to this historically uniq...

City Focus

Diplomat Gets The Elbow
Belarus said yesterday it is expelling a Polish diplomat, in the latest diplomatic tit-for-tat expulsion between the two neighbours. Belarus has given Andrze...

Current Affairs

Medieval Showdown Relived
Today marks the 595th anniversary of the battle of Grunwald, the biggest armed clash of medieval Europe, when the forces of Polish King Ladislaus Jagiello toget...

History

Germans Nervous Of Would-Be President
The influential German daily Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung claims that a victory of Lech Kaczynski in the coming presidential elections may change Polish-Germa...

Current Affairs

Polish Triumph At Film Festival
The Polish film 'Nikifor' stole the show at the 40th Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week in the Czech Republic. The film tells the 'true life tale' of a cur...

Art and Culture

Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain
Exorcists from all over the world have convened in the Jasna Gora shrine in the central Polish city of Czestochowa. The meeting is closed to the media, and no d...

Comment

Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists
Joining the seductive "plumber", an alluring "nurse" on Tuesday debuted in Poland's tongue-in-cheek tourism campaign launched last month in a humorous response ...

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Metro Evacuated In Warsaw
Warsaw authorities evacuated the city's only underground line on Tuesday following a bomb threat, but the mayor said he suspected the threat was a hoax. Pola...

Current Affairs

Poles Missing In London
Eighteen Poles are still missing Monday after last week's bomb attack on London, Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld confirmed Monday. Speaking to...

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Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last
Almost three hundred Polish veterans took part in a grand victory parade in London yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War. ...

Current Affairs

Celtic Secures Cracow Ace
Celtic have signed Poland striker Maciej Zurawski for two million pounds ($3.50 million) on a three-year deal from Wisla Krakow. The 29-year-old finally put ...

Comment

Krakow Honours Spielberg
The city of Krakow has recognized Steven Spielberg for his efforts to preserve parts of the former ghetto where he filmed much of his Oscar-winning "Schindler's...

City Focus

Tram Trounce
A word of friendly advice to all wayfarers - make sure you stamp your tram ticket over the next few days (and indeed all days as we're all good upstanding citiz...

City Focus

Extradition Row Runs On
Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecut...

Current Affairs

Polanski Fights With Vanity
Mia Farrow is key witness in a libel action filed in London by director Roman Polanski against Conde Nast, the publisher of Vanity Fair magazine. The Polish ...

Comment

Poles Flock To The Cloth
Poles already make up a quarter of Europe's Roman Catholic clergy and interest in vocation for the priesthood is on the rise after the death of compatriot Pope ...

Current Affairs

Former PM Edges Into Lead
Former prime minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has become the new favourite in the Polish presidential election, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpos...

Current Affairs

Backlash Over Vodka Sale
The Polish Treasury has been accused of lacking transparency in its sell-off of Polmos Bialystok. Sobieski Dystrybucja, which lost out on the majority stake in ...

Business

Polish War Efforts Revealed
Polish foreign minister Adam Rotfeld considers the report on Poland’s contribution to the Allied victory in World War Two compiled by the joint Polish-British c...

History

Only 1000 Miles To Go!
A group of 30 participants in the Peking to Paris car rally are crossing the Polish-German border in Kostrzyn on the Oder. They are travelling in four replicas ...

Comment

Vodka Giant To Leave Polish Hands
The Polish government has agreed to sell its leading distillery, Polmos Bialystok, the producer of the Zubrowka (Bison Grass) vodka brand, to US spirits distrib...

Business

Economy Set For Major Growth
Economic growth in Poland and Hungary will pick up in the second half and the Czech economy will expand at almost four times the pace of the euro region as cons...

Business

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...

Comment

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. ...

Comment

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

Klezmer Clash
If you're wondering what all this fuss is about Klezmer music, tomorrow (Thursday) you have a chance to see two of the best acts around today - Kroke and Brave ...

Art and Culture

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...

Comment

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

Wianki 2005
If you're strolling along the river today you'll notice a rather sizable stage has appeared on the river by Wawel Castle. This mighty set is intended to provide...

City Focus

Jewish Culture Festival Returns
Since it was established in 1988, the annual Festival of Jewish Culture in Krakow, Poland, has become an important magnet on the European cultural calendar. ...

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