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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 |
General Launches Surprise Project
General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist-era leader, said Monday he wants to work with former foe Lech Walesa to set up a truth commission that woul... | Current Affairs |
Poles Honoured by Israel
A successive group of Poles was honoured with Righteous Among Nations medals for saving Jews from the Holocaust during World War II. Anna Niemirowska-Mikulska a... | Current Affairs |
Cracow Film Festival
The 45th Cracow Film Festival is almost upon us, and this year promises to be a cracker. As many as 1300 submissions from countries as varied as Lebanon, Korea,... | Comment |
Polish Referee Arrested
Polish police said Sunday they have arrested a first-division soccer referee who allegedly took a $31,000 US bribe to help fix two matches.
The referee was ... | Comment |
Friday's Night Of Museums
If you're here for the weekend and anxious that you won't have time to catch all the things you wanted to see, you just might be in luck this evening. For the s... | Comment |
Pinocchio Ridicule For Putin
A Polish magazine has called on its readers to send Russian President Vladimir Putin a picture postcard depicting him as the long-nosed lying fairy tale charact... | Current Affairs |
Poles and Germans Say Oui
The German and Polish leaders rallied behind President Jacques Chirac on Thursday by urging French voters to back the European Union constitution, saying it was... | Current Affairs |
Pope's Birthday Celebrated
Schoolchildren and faithful Catholics filled the streets of the late Pope John Paul II's hometown Wednesday to celebrate what would have been his 85th birthday.... | Comment |
Memorial Project Chosen
A 70 million zloty project is in the pipeline for a memorial garden to the heroes of Poland's World War II Underground Army.
The project was first put forwa... | City Focus |
Election Date Set
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has announced September 25 as the date for Poland's general election. House speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said after conferri... | Current Affairs |
Ryanair Adds Polish Strings To Bow
Budget airline Ryanair has announced that it is launching five new routes to eastern Europe.
Ryanair said it would begin daily flights between London Stansted ... | Business |
President Backs Ukraine
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski called on the European Union to support democratic reforms in Ukraine and bring the nation into the fold.
Kwasniewski ... | Current Affairs |
Belarusian Problem Intensifies
The Polish embassy in Minsk has officially confirmed that its deputy head Marek Bucko has been asked to leave Belarus within a month’s notice.
The embassy s... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Mayor Leads Presidential Poll
If the presidential elections were held this month, Warsaw mayor Lech Kaczynski of the opposition Law and Justice Party would be the winner, with 22 percent of ... | Current Affairs |
First Lady To Testify
The parliamentary commission investigating the scandal involving the privatisation of the Polish oil giant Orlen has decided to call Poland’s first lady as a wi... | Current Affairs |
Crisis With Belarus
Polish head of state said that the attitude of Belarus authorities to the Polish minorities living in Belarus is unacceptable.
The Polish head of state comm... | Current Affairs |
Room For One More?
A record number of people have boarded a bus in the northern city of Olsztyn. 255 local university students and a driver took seven minutes to get into the Ikar... | Comment |
Poland Could Host Beatification
Pope Benedict XVI might be able to beatify John Paul II in a ceremony in Poland, the head of the Vatican's saint-making office says, a day after the pontiff gav... | Current Affairs |
Historic Summit Begins
For the first time in history, the Heads of State and Government of 46 European democracies – member states of the Council of Europe - are meeting in the Royal ... | Current Affairs |
A 600 Year Legacy
Cardinal Franciszek Marcharski, Archbishop of Cracow, held a special mass yesterday to celebrate the six hundredth anniversary of the monastery of Corpus Christ... | City Focus |
'Grandpa' Remembered
Yesterday saw the seventieth anniversary of the death of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, one of the most legendary figures in all Polish history. The Marshal passed aw... | History |
Castle Emerges From Revamp
There's great news for both art and castle lovers this month as the picturesque stronghold of Pieskowa Skala has just opened its second floor following a costl... | Art and Culture |
Juvenalia Returns!
If you're around town, you'll have noticed that the madness has begun. Only on one day of the year will you find queues so long at the liquor stores that they a... | Comment |
Path To Sainthood Opened
Pope Benedict XVI said Friday he had opened the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II, overriding the usual five-year waiting period following the deat... | Current Affairs |
Pensioner Faces War Crimes Charges
An 84-year-old Polish pensioner is facing war crimes charges for having allegedly handed over information to Nazi officials which led to the arrest and shooting... | Current Affairs |
Poland Repays Cold War Debt
Poland repaid most of its communist-era debt to the United States on Thursday, handing Washington $868 million, a government official said.
Deputy Finance ... | Current Affairs |
Putin Skips Warsaw Council
President Vladimir Putin will not attend the Council of Europe summit, starting in Warsaw on Monday. Russia will be represented at the meeting by its foreign mi... | Current Affairs |
Poles In Belarus Squeezed
The Belarusian Justice Ministry has declared legally invalid the March congress of the Association of Poles in Belarus.
According to unofficial sources, the... | Current Affairs |
Poles Boycott Bolshoi
The Bolshoi Ballet has cancelled more than half the remaining performances on its tour of Poland, the Moscow News reports.
Performances in Olsztyn, Rzeszów, ... | Art and Culture |
Right-Wing Parties Lead Polls
The right-wing Law and Justice and the centrist Civic Platform are in the lead of a recent popularity poll conducted by the Rzeczpospolita daily.
The poll s... | Current Affairs |
EU Resolution On World War II
The European Parliament has adopted a resolution which says that the end of World War Two did not bring freedom and liberation to all countries.
Polish MEPs... | Current Affairs |
Polish Day In Japan
Poland took centre stage at 2005 World Exposition Aichi on Monday as it celebrated its national day, with Polish Minister for Economics Affairs and Labor Jacek ... | Art and Culture |
Poland Lures Bollywood
Poland can be an attractive destination for Indian filmmakers as it offers great locations and studios and qualified technicians, says actor-turned-politician V... | Art and Culture |
Church Faces The Past
The Polish church is preparing to face up to a tricky issue in its past. A Bishop from the south-western Wroclaw diocese has decided to form a commission which ... | Current Affairs |
Tribute From Afar
A sculpture of the renowned Polish patriot and artist Ignacy Jan Paderewski created by the well-known Chinese painter Yuan Xikun was unveiled Tuesday in Beijin... | Art and Culture |
President Rejects PM's resignation
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski refused the resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka on Friday, a decision that should keep the unpopular governing par... | Current Affairs |
Cracovia Marathon
It's that time again! Beautiful scenery, world-class athletes, and the greatest finish line of 'em all. That's right, the Cracovia Marathon is on!
Growing i... | City Focus |
Express Service
After accepting what appeared to be a kind offer from a German motorist to tow his broken car, a stranded Polish motorist was taken on a terrifying high-speed j... | Comment |
Happy Third of May Holiday!
Well it's about that time.... Cracow Life wishes all adventurers a happy and hearty Third of May Holiday.
If you've just arrived in the city of Prince Krak, ... | City Focus |
Priest Denies Spying
A Polish priest accused of spying on the late Pope John Paul said he had taken money provided by a suspected secret service agent, but denied he had been a spy.... | Current Affairs |
Polish Price Is Right
When Condoleezza Rice or Vladimir Putin descend on the Intercontinental Hotel in Berlin, they sleep in sheets washed almost 100 miles away across the border in ... | Comment |
Turkey Stung By Polish Stance
The Turkish parliament have passed a resolution canceling meetings with the Turkish-Polish friendship group, the visit of the Commission on Foreign Affairs of t... | Current Affairs |
Alleged Collaborator Revealed
A Polish priest at the Vatican was accused Wednesday of collaborating with the communist-era secret police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was i... | Current Affairs |
Premier Warns Of French Veto
Poland would bear the burden of a French "no" vote to the EU constitution, Prime Minister Marek Belka said Wednesday, urging his compatriots to "cross your fing... | Current Affairs |
No Frills But Some Thrills
German no-frills airline DauAir offered their passengers some rather unusual entertainment on their virgin flight to Poland this Monday.
All seemed to be go... | Comment |
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