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Bid For Polish Mobile Stake

July.25.2005

Britain's Vodafone and Denmark's TDC have made an offer for a controlling stake in Polish mobile phone operator Polkomtel, an advisor to Poland's treasury minis...

Polanski Wins Libel Case

July.22.2005

Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame...

Belarusian Problem Spirals

July.22.2005

Polish authorities have suggested they could toss a Belarusian diplomat out of the country and hinted at visa troubles for Belarusians in the latest installment...

Jury Retires In Polanski Case

July.22.2005

The judge in Roman Polanski's libel case against Vanity Fair magazine told jurors Thursday they should not focus on the filmmaker's lifestyle as they deliberate...

Sport Star Passes Away

July.21.2005

Andrzej Grubba, Poland’s most successful table tennis player of all time, has died at the age of 47 after an unsuccessful struggle against cancer. His top s...

Happy Bastille Day!

July.22.2005

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 ...

Schindler Factory Shall Open

July.21.2005

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...

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.

Jul.20.2005

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...

A Price To Pay

July.20.2005

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...

Farrow Fights For Polanski

July.20.2005

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...

New Steel Plants For Poland

July.20.2005

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...

Polish Mushroom Hit

July.20.2005

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

Polanski In The Dock

July.19.2005

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 ...

Cracow Girl Wins Wimbledon

July.19.2005

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...

Poles Support EU Enlargement

July.19.2005

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. ...

Poles Killed In London Blasts

July.19.2005

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...

Finnair Flies To Cracow

July.19.2005

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...

Diplomat Gets The Elbow

July.18.2005

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...

Medieval Showdown Relived

July.15.2005

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...

Germans Nervous Of Would-Be President

July.15.2005

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

Polish Triumph At Film Festival

July.13.2005

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...

Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain

July.13.2005

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...

Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists

July.12.2005

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 ...

Metro Evacuated In Warsaw

July.12.2005

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...

Poles Missing In London

July.12.2005

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...

Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last

July.11.2005

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. ...

Celtic Secures Cracow Ace

July.11.2005

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 ...

Krakow Honours Spielberg

July.7.2005

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...

Tram Trounce

July.7.2005

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...

Extradition Row Runs On

July.6.2005

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...

Polanski Fights With Vanity

July.6.2005

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 ...

Poles Flock To The Cloth

July.6.2005

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 ...

Former PM Edges Into Lead

July.6.2005

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

Backlash Over Vodka Sale

July.6.2005

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 ...

Polish War Efforts Revealed

July.5.2005

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...

Only 1000 Miles To Go!

July.5.2005

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 ...

Vodka Giant To Leave Polish Hands

July.5.2005

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...

Economy Set For Major Growth

July.5.2005

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...

First Lady On Fresh Campaign

July.1.2005

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...

Jewish Museum Selects Star

June.30.2005

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...

Ian Holm To Play Pope John Paul II

June.30.2005

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...

Polish Plumber Holds Press Conference

June.30.2005

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...

Pope Coins A Runaway Hit

June.30.2005

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. ...

Austrian In Choppy Water Over Polish Remark

June.30.2005

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...

Poles Are Anti Ads

June.30.2005

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...

Ukrainian Airline In The Running

June.30.2005

According to Puls Biznesu information, the most likely candidate to service internal flights in Poland is a Ukrainian airline. "A few foreign enterprises, f...

Klezmer Clash

June.29.2005

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 ...

Saucy Plumber Seduces French

June.29.2005

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...

Sainthood Path Officially Launched

June.29.2005

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...

Becks Beer Bounds Onto Market

June.29.2005

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...

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