News & Views Directory 19

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Film Producer Freed

June.01.2005

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...

Tribute To Our Feathered Friends

May.31.2005

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...

Highland Robbers On The Run

May.31.2005

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...

Greens Sue Government

May.31.2005

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, ...

Arrest Of Men In White Coats

May.31.2005

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

Poland's President Regrets French 'Non'

May.30.2005

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

Norwegian Royals Head To Poland

May.30.2005

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 ...

SLD Strives For New Image

May.30.2005

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 ...

Chips Fall Over Corruption Scandal

May.24.2005

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

Corpus Christi

May.25.2005

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...

Gangster No.1 In Custody

May.25.2005

Poland's most notorious gangster Ryszard Niemczyk was extradited from Germany to his homeland yesterday where he faces charges relating to some sixteen crimes, ...

General Launches Surprise Project

May.23.2005

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...

Poles Honoured by Israel

May.24.2005

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...

Cracow Film Festival

May.23rd.2005

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,...

Polish Referee Arrested

May.23.2005

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 ...

Friday's Night Of Museums

May.20.2005

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...

Pinocchio Ridicule For Putin

May.2o.2005

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...

Poles and Germans Say Oui

May.20th.2005

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...

Pope's Birthday Celebrated

May.20.2005

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....

Memorial Project Chosen

May.19.2005

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...

Election Date Set

May.19.2005

President Aleksander Kwasniewski has announced September 25 as the date for Poland's general election. House speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said after conferri...

Ryanair Adds Polish Strings To Bow

May.19.2005

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 ...

President Backs Ukraine

May.18.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski called on the European Union to support democratic reforms in Ukraine and bring the nation into the fold. Kwasniewski ...

Belarusian Problem Intensifies

May.18.2005

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...

Warsaw Mayor Leads Presidential Poll

May.18.2005

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 ...

First Lady To Testify

May.18.2005

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...

Crisis With Belarus

May.18.2005

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...

Room For One More?

May.18.2005

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...

Poland Could Host Beatification

May.16.2005

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...

Historic Summit Begins

May.16.2005

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 ...

A 600 Year Legacy

May.16.2005

Cardinal Franciszek Marcharski, Archbishop of Cracow, held a special mass yesterday to celebrate the six hundredth anniversary of the monastery of Corpus Christ...

'Grandpa' Remembered

May.13. 2005

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...

Castle Emerges From Revamp

May.13.2005

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...

Juvenalia Returns!

May.13.2005

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...

Path To Sainthood Opened

May.13.2005

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...

Pensioner Faces War Crimes Charges

May.13.2005

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...

Poland Repays Cold War Debt

May.13.2005

Poland repaid most of its communist-era debt to the United States on Thursday, handing Washington $868 million, a government official said. Deputy Finance ...

Putin Skips Warsaw Council

May.13.2005

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...

Poles In Belarus Squeezed

May.13.2005

The Belarusian Justice Ministry has declared legally invalid the March congress of the Association of Poles in Belarus. According to unofficial sources, the...

Poles Boycott Bolshoi

May.13.2005

The Bolshoi Ballet has cancelled more than half the remaining performances on its tour of Poland, the Moscow News reports. Performances in Olsztyn, Rzeszów, ...

Right-Wing Parties Lead Polls

May.13.2005

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...

EU Resolution On World War II

March.13.2005

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...

Polish Day In Japan

May.13.2005

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 ...

Poland Lures Bollywood

May.11.2005

Poland can be an attractive destination for Indian filmmakers as it offers great locations and studios and qualified technicians, says actor-turned-politician V...

Church Faces The Past

May.11th.2005

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 ...

Tribute From Afar

May.11.2005

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...

Polish Committee Decries Moscow Celebrations

May.9.2005

Families of the victims of the Katyn massacre have protested in front of the Russian Embassy in Warsaw. The head of the Katyn Committee described today’s ce...

President Rejects PM's resignation

May.6.2005

Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski refused the resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka on Friday, a decision that should keep the unpopular governing par...

Cracovia Marathon

May.06.2005

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...

Express Service

May.4.2005

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...

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