News & Views Directory 15

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Poland Championed As Investment Hit

Sept.14.2005

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...

Smugglers Of Space Dust

Sept.12.2005

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...

Zurawski Wants To Stun England

Sept.12.2005

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...

15 Year Old Space Ace

Sept.12.2005

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...

President Tours America

Sept.12.2005

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

Poland's Leader Concerned About Ukraine

Dec.14.2002

‘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...

Polish Days In Austria

Sept.12.2005

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...

Putin-Schroeder Pact!

Sept.09.2005

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...

Poland On Ukrainian Crisis

Sept.9.2005

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

Pole Is Oldest European at 118

Sept.9.2005

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...

Twins Slip In Struggle For Votes

Sept.9.2005

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...

Communist Chief May Yet Be Grilled

Aug.9.2005

The Silesian Office of The National Remembrance Institute is considering charging former communist ruler general Wojciech Jaruzelski with illegal introduction o...

Zurawski: England Stars And Strife

Sept.9.2005

Poland international Maciej Zurawski believes Group Six rivals England are not performing together as team. The 28-year-old Celtic striker will face Sven-Gor...

Poland One Step Closer

Aug.8.2005

Maciej Zurawski converted a penalty in the 54th minute Wednesday to guide Poland to a 1-0 win over Wales and extend its lead atop Group 6 in World Cup qualifyin...

Year of Zamosc

Sept.7.2005

September is a fine month to travel around Poland and if you're planning a long weekend away from Warsaw or Cracow we'd recommend heading east this Autumn. T...

Poles Missing After Hurricane

Sept.06.2005

22 Poles are still missing after hurricane Katrina struck the US southern states of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama a week ago, the Polish Foreign Ministry h...

Yushchenko Cancels Visit

Sept.6.2005

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has cancelled his visit to Poland planned for September 7-9, Itar-Tass news agency reports. Yushchenko was to present his ...

Krakow Scion Saves The Day

Sept.5.2005

Celtic striker Maciej Zurawski squeezed home a penalty rebound to give Poland an edgy 3-2 victory at home to Austria on Saturday that keeps them above England a...

Lepper Courts Chinese Communists

Sept.5.2005

Farmers’ Self Defence has invited a delegation of the Chinese Leaque of Communist Youth for a series of meetings and discussions aimed at establishing a long-te...

New German Consul Assaulted

Sept.5.2005

Police in Gdansk is continuing its search for the three youths who assaulted the German consul in the city yesterday. Ute Minke-Koenig assumed her post only...

Zanussi Flies Celluloid Flag

Sept.5.2005

'Persona Non Grata', a feature by the internationally-acclaimed Polish director Krzysztof Zanussi, has been shown at the Venice Film Festival. It is Poland’s of...

Pope Was Key To Victory

Sept.5.2005

Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician who helped topple Poland's communist regime by founding the Solidarity movement in 1980, credited the late Pope John Paul ...

Wisla Seeks New Stars

Sept.5.2005

According to the Polish media twenty six year old Brazilian midfielder Andre Paulo Barreta has become the newest member of Wisla Krakow. Besides him, Pawel Kry...

Art By The Disabled

Sept.5.2005

4th National Art Competition for Manual Therapy Workshops 2005. September 4 – October 9, 2005 The International Cultural Centre's new Autumn exhibition is ...

Poland Sends Condolences To US

Sept.2.2005

Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski sent a letter of condolences to his American counterpart G. W. Bush in which he talked of being “shocked by the enormity...

World Salutes Solidarity

Sept.1.2005

World leaders paid tribute to Solidarity on Wednesday, saying the labor movement launched 25 years ago in the Gdansk shipyards was a catalyst for some of the mo...

Walesa Hails Freedom

Aug.30.2005

Poland's Solidarity hero Lech Walesa has told his countrymen that any price, including the pain accompanying economic reforms, was worth paying for the freedom ...

President Unlikely To Testify

Aug.30.2005

The parliamentary committee investigating the privatisation of Poland’s oil giant Orlen has called on president Aleksander Kwasniewski to testify. The motion to...

Poland Blanks Belarusian Choice

Aug.29.2005

Poland will not recognise newly elected leaders of a Polish ethnic organisation in Belarus because they were installed after pressure from President Alexander L...

Dziwisz Steps Into Mentor's Shoes

Aug.29.2005

Pope John Paul II’s longtime aide, who worked with the pontiff for 40 years and cradled him in the "popemobile" after a 1981 assassination attempt, was installe...

Black Madonna Dazzles Anew

Aug.29.2005

Tens of thousands of Roman Catholics gathered at Poland's holiest shrine Friday to pray as the revered Black Madonna of Czestochowa icon was given a new coverin...

Lodz Ghetto Remembered

Aug.29.2005

Events commemorating the 61st anniversary of the liquidation of the Jewish ghetto in Lodz began in that central Polish city today. A mass in the intention of th...

Solidarity Celebrations Set To Start

Aug.30.2005

The main events marking the 25th anniversary of Solidarity – the first free trade union in a communist bloc – will be held this week in Warsaw and Gdansk, the u...

Activists Detained in Poland

Aug.27.2005

Belarussian police detained two ethnic Polish activists on Friday before a meeting intended to entrench rival leaders at the helm of a Polish association who wo...

Pope's Right-Hand Man Returns

Aug.25.2005

Pope John Paul II's closest companion Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz will be formally welcomed back into the Cracovian fold this Saturday with a sonorous inaugura...

Coca Cola Calls Time

Aug.25.2005

Beverage producer Coca-Cola will pull its sodas out of Polish elementary schools and replace them with bottled water and fruit juices due to growing public conc...

Krakow Out Of Luck In Footie

Aug.24.2005

Defender Ilias Kotsios scored deep into extra time to complete an extraordinary comeback by Panathinaikos who booked their place in the Champions League proper ...

Temporary Bus Station Blues

Aug.24.2005

At some point in the not so distant future, Cracow will have a super slick new train and bus station. Work is already well underway on the vast new Nowe Miasto ...

Greek Bank Branches Into Poland

Aug.24

Greece's third biggest bank, EFG Eurobank Ergasias, plans to enter Poland and open as many as 200 branches, the Greek press reports. Polish Eurobank, control...

Dachshund Day Cometh

Aug,23.2005

For one day every year, Cracow is ruled by our four-legged friends, or more specifically, dachshunds. Cracow has about as many sausage-shaped dogs as it does sa...

Cycling Into The Record Books

Aug.23.2005

A 53-year-old Polish cyclist has made it into the Guinness Book of records for notching up a staggering 807 kilometres on bicycle in just 24 hours. It's not ...

Michelangelo In Miniature

Aug.22.2005

'In the year 1475 in the Casenino, under a fateful and lucky star, the virtuous and noble wife of Ludowico di Leonardo Buonarroti gave birth to a baby son... Th...

Celluloid Surprises

Aug.22.2005

Visitors may have noticed some peculiar automobiles parked around town over the last few days.... vehicles of a distinctly military variety. However, Cracow is ...

Bridging the Gap

Aug.22.2005

This scribbler nearly came to a sticky end a year ago on the rickety footbridge that leads to the Mound Of Krak, legendary resting place of the city's founder. ...

Communist Leader Apologizes To Czechs

Aug.22.2005

Former Polish President General Wojciech Jaruzelski on Sunday apologised for the first time for ordering Polish troops to take part in the Moscow-led crackdown ...

37th International Festival of Highlanders’ Folklore

Aug.22.2005

The 37th International festival of Highlanders’ Folklore is underway in the mountain resort of Zakopane in the Polish Tatras. It is the largest event of this...

Polish Ace In Tragic Accident

Aug.22.2005

General Jacek Bartoszcze, the chief of Poland's air force, died in the crash of a two-seater plane on Saturday, a military spokesman said on Sunday. "An inqu...

Last Chance To Discover A Master!

Aug.19.2005

Cracow's finest gallery had a dicey moment a fortnight ago when a chef in the neighbouring mansion accidentally sparked a raging fire. Such was the intensity of...

Ukraine and Poland Jack Up Bid

Aug.19.2005

Ukraine and Poland agreed on Thursday to press on with a joint bid to stage the 2012 European championship and pledged high-level support in the two east Europe...

Depeche Fan A Wanted Man

Aug.19.2005

Police in Poland have arrested a Polish individual alleged to have accessed a secure pre-release video copy of the new Depeche Mode single Precious and made it ...

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