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Happy Third of May Holiday!

April.29.2005

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, ...

Priest Denies Spying

April.29.2005

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....

Polish Price Is Right

April.29.2005

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 ...

Turkey Stung By Polish Stance

April.29.2005

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...

Alleged Collaborator Revealed

April.28.2005

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...

Premier Warns Of French Veto

April.28.2005

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...

No Frills But Some Thrills

April.27.2005

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...

New Pope Learns Polish

April.27.2005

Unofficial sources from the Vatican claim that pope Benedict XVI learns Polish pronounciation. The pontiff intends to say a few words to Polish pilgrims on ...

Poles Abroad

April.27.2005

One year after Poland joined the European Union, 65,000 Poles have left the central European country to work in other member states, Polish foreign ministry off...

Lubelskie: Untouched By EU Magic

April.27.2005

In a valley of southeastern Poland, the town of Rudnik's pot-holed roads, widespread unemployment and subsistence farmers provide a stark contrast to the image ...

Polish Journalists Appeal To Russia

April.25.2005

The Association of Polish Journalists has appealed to their Russian counterparts to respect historical truth. The association has sent a letter to the Russian ...

Poland Challenges EU Cuts

April.25.2005

Poland does not agree to the proposed cuts of expenditures for the development of the poorest EU regions. The plan was put forward by Luxembourg which holds...

Poles Seek To Honour John Paul

April.25.2005

Poland's capital wants to honour Pope John Paul II by opening an institute focusing on his life and teachings, to be built on the site of his triumphal 1979 ret...

New Museum For Nowa Huta

April.25.2005

The Museum of the History of Cracow will be opening a brand new branch this week in the famous (at times infamous!) suburb of Nowa Huta. Nowa Huta was found...

Election Polls A Close Run Thing

April.25.2005

If parliamentary elections were held presently, the rightist Law & Justice (PiS) would top popularity ratings, replacing the leading centrist Civic Platform (PO...

US Journalist Harassed

April.25.2005

The World Press Freedom Committee made a Fund Against Censorship grant to Poland-based US journalist Preston Smith, a reporter for the English-language Poland M...

eBay Launches In Poland

April.25.2005

Internet auction company eBay Inc. says it's starting a new Web site in Poland where buyers and sellers can meet and trade. The service aims to build a local...

Church Caught In Informer Row

April.22.2005

An historian from the Cracow branch of the Institute of National Remembrance sparked a storm of controversy yesterday when he declared that he had studied docum...

Ankara Criticizes Polish Stance

April.22.2005

Turkey has sharply criticised Poland for acknowledging the killing of thousands of Armenians by Turks between 1915 and 1917 as genocide. Earlier this week P...

Walesa Champions Armenian Plight

April.22.2005

Lech Walesa, Poland’s former president and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, made on Thursday an emotional case for the recognition by Turkey of the 1915 genocide of ...

Belarusian President Lambasts Poland

April.21.2005

Poland’s parliamentary speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has said that the Belarussian president’s attacks on Polish diplomats are scandalous and groundless. ...

Interest In EU Work Wanes

April.21.2005

The interest of Poles in working in European Union countries is smaller now than it was a year ago, before Poland entered the bloc. According to a survey ca...

Bells Ring In Pope

April.21.2005

Polish archbishops have said they are convinced Benedict XVI will carry on the work of his predecessor Polish-born John Paul II. They stressed that cardinal...

Warsaw Ghetto Anniversary

April.20.2005

A leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising warned the world Tuesday not to forget Polish Jews' historic resistance to their Nazi conquerors on the 62nd anniversary ...

Parliament Recognizes Armenian Tragedy

April.20.2005

Yesterday the Polish Sejm unanimously passed a resolution on the Armenian Genocide. The document was initiated by the Sejm Presidium. “The remembrance of th...

Poland Hails New Pope

April.20.2005

Still grieving for their native son John Paul II, people in Krakow on Tuesday expressed happiness and hope at the election of Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger of Germa...

Film Producer Behind Bars

April.19.2005

A Warsaw court ruled on Monday that the Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" must immediately start serving his two-year prison term ...

Prayers In The Darkness

April.19.2005

A solemn liturgy on occasion of the 1600th anniversary of the creation of the Armenian written language was chanted in the Church of St. Nicholas in Krakow yest...

Cardinals Resume Quest

April.19.2005

Cardinals who failed to elect a new pope in their first vote of a historic papal conclave prepared for two more tries Tuesday morning in a secret and sacred que...

John Paul's Seal Is Broken

April.18.2005

Roman Catholic cardinals destroyed the late Pope John Paul's ring and seal in a symbolic end to his authority before they seclude themselves from the world to e...

1 Million Dollars Cocaine Turns To Sugar

April.18.2005

Polish prosecutors are investigating the disappearance of 20 kg (44 lbs) of cocaine from a police warehouse, where it had been replaced by an identical quantity...

Wajda To Make Katyn Film

April.18.2005

Polish film director Andrzej Wajda is planning to film a movie about the World War II Katyn massacre, the state-run news agency TASR reported. "It's a compl...

Conclave Starts In Rome

April.18.2005

In a historic gathering steeped in intrigue, cardinals from six continents assembled Monday for their first conclave of the new millennium to elect a pope who w...

Pope's Book Breaks Records

April.18.2005

The late Pope John Paul's last book has become the all-time bestseller in his native Poland, eclipsing the previous record-holder Harry Potter and the Order of ...

Seeing the Light

April.18.2005

The owner of an escort agency in the small town of Poronin in southern Poland is closing down his business out of respect for Pope John Paul II , who died on Ap...

Italians Open On Papal Successor

April.18.2005

Pope John Paul II was the first non-Italian pope in 455 years, and many analysts say the Italians are desperate to reclaim the papacy. But ordinary Italians on ...

Pope Film Premiere

April.15.2005

Italian film critics got their first viewing Thursday of a new miniseries about Pope John Paul II that focuses on the pontiff's early years, when his native Pol...

Trouble In Walesaland

April.15.2005

It's been a funny fortnight for Lech Walesa, former President of Poland and moustachioed hero of the Solidarity movement. It began with the the passing of hi...

Cracovia Stadium Renamed

April.15.2005

Cracovia Football association has just announced that their stadium is to be renamed after the late Pope John Paul II. In many ways the idea seems a fitting ...

Poles Picket Russian Embassy

April.17.2005

Relatives of some of the 22,000 Polish prisoners of war murdered by Soviet forces in 1940 picketed the Russian Embassy in Warsaw Wednesday, demanding Moscow apo...

Exotic Shops Are In The Firing Line

April.13.2005

As an unfortunate quirk of fate would have it, John Paul II Avenue (which runs right through the heart of the Polish capital) is a high holy place for sex shop...

Katyn Crime Casts Shadow

April.13.2005

On this day in 1943, the Nazi regime released news of the discovery of mass graves in the West Russian forest of Katyn. The victims were Polish soldiers, and ea...

Ukraine's Borders Will Open

April.13.2005

There's great news for EU travellers this Spring as Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko has announced that visas will no longer be needed to enter his country...

A Polish Ukrainian Alliance

April.13.2005

Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschchenko was greeted with a standing ovation yesterday when he arrived for a speech at Warsaw University. It was some time befo...

Poland Will Leave Iraq

April.13.2005

Poland's government decided on Tuesday to withdraw its troops from Iraq at the end of 2005, making official an earlier proposal, Defense Minister Jerzy Szmajdzi...

Simple Tomb Greets Visitors

Appril.13.2005

Some said they had come not only to pray for John Paul, but also to pray to him. Many Roman Catholics believe John Paul, who died April 2 at age 84, was a saint...

Sundance In Cracow

April.13.2005

Great news for theatre lovers: the Sundance Institute is bringing a stage workshop to Cracow later this month. Between the 14th and 16th of April, the Pulitzer ...

Walesa Tries To Heal Rift

April.12.2005

Former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is ready to invite current president Aleksander Kwasniewski to ceremonies marking the 25th anniversary of Sol...

A Return To Form

April.12.2005

Optimists were proved sadly wrong on Sunday night when violence erupted after the Cracovia vs Legia match. For a week following the extraordinary mass of rememb...

Peace With Kwasniewski, War With Radio Maryja

April.12.2005

Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Monday he filed charges against a radical Roman Catholic radio station that allegedly accused hi...

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