Available Art
Are you one of those people who enjoys expressing disdain for the arts but harbours a secret intrigue to know more? Do you usually enjoy visiting galleries as m...

Art and Culture

Right Wing Answer To Gay Parade
Members of the right-wing All Polish Youth organisation intend to organize a Normality Parade this coming Saturday. One of their leaders informed the media that...

Current Affairs

Musicians Take over Cracow
Clean out your ears and get ready to dance, because the inaugural Cracow Day of Music festival will take place this Saturday, the 18th of June. Several venues, ...

Art and Culture

Saddam Looks To Poland
Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein say the deposed Iraqi dictator wants his case to be tried in Sweden or Poland instead of Iraq where he faces the death penalt...

Current Affairs

Landmark Case Adjourned
The European Court of Human Rights has adjourned the case of Broniowski v. Poland pending the outcome of friendly settlement negotiations on the question of jus...

Current Affairs

Poles On Path To Sainthood
Pope Benedict XVI has moved another step away from beatification ceremonies, asking Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw to preside in Poland over the beatification o...

Current Affairs

Tragic Turn To Memorial Day
Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp took a sad turn when one of the passengers, an 85...

Current Affairs

Prospects For Schindler Factory
Leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has revealed that plans are now well underway for the resuscitation of the fabled Schindler factory. Waldemar Dabrowski,...

City Focus

First Transit To Auschwitz
Commemorations began today in the southern city of Tarnow in tribute to the first victims of the Auschwitz camps. 65 years ago this week, 728 Polish citizens we...

History

Cracow Soccer Star May Stray
Polish national coach Pawel Janas has said that in order to make progress in his career the second best scorer of Ekstraklasa Maciej Zurawski must leave the dom...

Comment

Twins Lead Political Race
The identical twins first entered the spotlight as child actors playing a pair of rascals who mend their naughty ways. Now, the Kaczynski brothers are promising...

Current Affairs

Vets On Wheels
A veterinary clinic on wheels has arrived in the city of Lodz, central Poland, offering free check-ups for dogs. The huge truck, which boasts three consultancy ...

Comment

Gay Rally Defies Ban
More than 2,000 people defied a ban on a gay-rights rally in Poland's capital, taking to the streets of Warsaw on Saturday against the orders of the city's cons...

Current Affairs

Boost For Polish-Ukrainian Cup Bid
Ukraine's FFU has published an appeal to the media asking to support Ukraine’s and Poland’s joint bid to host Euro-2012 football finals. The Federation believe...

Current Affairs

Intelligence Ignored
A new offiicial report on Second World War Intelligence has spotlighted what Poles have been aware of for some sixty years now - namely that the British governm...

Current Affairs

Legendary Show
If ever there was a city of folklore then it is Cracow. Maiden-chomping dragons, enchanted pigeons, sorcerers who fly about on giant cockerels - they're all the...

Art and Culture

Leaders Meet On The Vistula
The prime ministers of four of the European Union's central European members have urged the bloc to push on with ratification of the EU constitution. The pr...

Comment

Mystery Airline Set To Launch
It is likely that by the fall one will be able to fly directly between regional airports at a cost below zl.300 per flight. These are the foundations of a pr...

Current Affairs

Pressure Mounts On Pride March
The International Lesbian & Gay Association is urging the European Union to intervene in a decision by the mayor of Warsaw to ban gay Pride celebrations for the...

Current Affairs

Dziwisz Defends Decision
John Paul II's longtime private secretary defended on Wednesday his decision not to burn the pope's papers as the pontiff's will instructed, saying the pope had...

Current Affairs

Vodka Fat Cat In The Doldrums
The sale of the majority stake in Polmos Bialystok is yet to be settled, according to local reports. Speaking to reporters in Poland yesterday, Treasury Ministe...

Business

Sharing A Shady Past
Polish and German institutes holding sensitive communist-era secret police archives have agreed to share historic documents which may shed light on some of the ...

Current Affairs

Creme de la Creme
The cafe of the University's Collegium Maius has many aces up its sleeve. First, their iced coffee is arguably the best in town (ask for a dollop of ice-cream.....

City Focus

Stasi Agent Spied On Solidarity
An agent working for communist East Germany's feared Stasi secret police spied on Poland's communist-era Solidarity opposition during the 1980s, Polish Televisi...

Current Affairs

Young Eagles
An historic Polish cemetery in the Ukrainian city of Lviv will be officially opened on June 24 after a protracted tug-of-war between Poland and Ukraine. Some 3,...

Current Affairs

More Wobbles For EU Constitution
Poland dealt a fresh blow to the European Union's wounded constitution on Tuesday, saying it may delay a planned referendum despite efforts by France, which vot...

Current Affairs

Poles Appeal To Brits
Poland on Monday called on Britain to keep alive the European Union charter's ratification process by not shelving plans to hold a referendum on the issue. D...

Current Affairs

Hapless Hejmo Denies Informing
A Polish priest denied Monday that he intentionally collaborated with communist authorities in the 1980s while close to Pope John Paul II's entourage, but he ap...

Comment

John Paul's Last Request
Pope John Paul II's longtime private secretary has revealed that he did not burn the late pontiff's notes as his will demanded, arguing that the papers containe...

Current Affairs

Poles Triumph In Qualifier
Poland overcame Azerbaijan 3-0 in a World Cup qualifier to go top of Group Six on Saturday. Three goals proved too much for Azerbaijan's Brazilian coach Carl...

Comment

Back To Business For Dudek
Goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek must get his mind off 10 days of media hype around Liverpool's Champions League win and back on Saturday's World Cup qualifier away to Az...

Comment

White Night!
The City Festival will be in full swing this weekend, and besides a Dragon Parade, an enthronement of a Cracovian King and numerous concerts across town (check ...

City Focus

Enthronement Of The Fowler King
A host of proud, moustachioed fellows, decked out in the oriental styled noblemans outfits of old, will descend on the square tomorrow for a time-honoured cerem...

City Focus

New Archbishop For Cracow
Archbishop Stanislaw Dziwisz, personal secretary and close friend to the late Pope John Paul II, was named the archbishop of Krakow on Friday, the Vatican's rep...

Comment

Hero Goalie Considers Future
Liverpool goalkeeper Jerzy Dudek cannot imagine leaving Anfield after his penalty shootout heroics helped the team to Champions League victory last week, a Poli...

Comment

Report Released On 'Collaborator'
Investigators published a report Wednesday offering new details of allegations that a priest was an informer for Poland's communist government while he was clos...

Current Affairs

Film Crew Runs Into Russian Trouble
A Polish diplomat from the Moscow Embassy has gone to Ingushetia to investigate the circumstances relating to the detention of three Polish television journalis...

Current Affairs

Lajkonik Returns!
A fantastical rider is due to arrive on Cracow's hallowed Market Square this Thursday (2nd June). He will be followed by an eccentric band of musicians, not to ...

City Focus

Beatification Process Begins
The process of beatifying Pope John Paul II - the first step toward possible sainthood - has officially begun with an edict inviting testimony from witnesses ab...

Comment

Film Producer Freed
The Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" left prison Tuesday after an appeals court suspended his two-year term in a high-profile bri...

Current Affairs

Tribute To Our Feathered Friends
Poland celebrates Stork Day today. The arrival of these long-legged fellows each Spring is a cherished event in Poland. Storks are recurrent characters in Po...

Comment

Highland Robbers On The Run
Police have blocked roads in southern Poland after a audacious bank robbery in the southern city of Nowy Targ. The search is underway for three men who have sto...

Current Affairs

Greens Sue Government
Poland’s Greens have sued the State Treasury, demanding reparation for damages caused by the felling of seven old oaks in the Bialowieza Forest nature reserve, ...

Comment

Arrest Of Men In White Coats
Police from the north-eastern city of Olsztyn have arrested a group of psychiatrists. Four doctors have already been charged with forging medical certificates. ...

Comment

Poland's President Regrets French 'Non'
Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the French No to the European Constitutional Treaty with regret. He admitted that this spells out serious...

Current Affairs

Norwegian Royals Head To Poland
Crown Prince Haakon and Crown Princess Mette-Marit were due to leave for a three-day official visit to Poland on Monday. Nearly 60 business leaders are tagging ...

Current Affairs

SLD Strives For New Image
The Democratic Left Alliance, SLD, the biggest left wing party and hitherto House majority grouping has kicked off its national convention. The gathering is to ...

Current Affairs

Chips Fall Over Corruption Scandal
Prime Minister Marek Belka has rejected the resignation of Interior Minister Ryszard Kalisz but fired his deputy over a series of corruption scandals involving ...

Current Affairs

Corpus Christi
This Thursday morning the Old Town will come to a standstill for the dazzling procession of Corpus Christi. Along with the festival of St. Stanislas (that of Po...

City Focus

Gangster No.1 In Custody
Poland's most notorious gangster Ryszard Niemczyk was extradited from Germany to his homeland yesterday where he faces charges relating to some sixteen crimes, ...

Current Affairs