News & Views Directory 23

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'Mein Kampf' Furore

Feb.23.2005

A German state that holds the rights to Adolf Hitler's book "Mein Kampf" said Tuesday it was seeking legal action to prevent the book from being published in Po...

5th Polish Poster Festival

Feb.18.2005

Judging by the pieces on show at this year's festival, Poland's proud tradition of poster art has lost none of its sparkle. If you're curious about this celebra...

Chopin's 195th Birthday!

Feb.18.2005

The 195th anniversary of Chopin’s birth is fast approaching! The F. Chopin Society will celebrate it in Sanniki on February 20th with a concert by pianist Wojci...

Pope Recalls Assassination Attempt

Feb.18.2005

In his new book, Pope John Paul II for the first time described publicly the moments after he was gravely wounded in 1981, saying he was fearful and in pain but...

Rugby Rescue Plan

Feb.18.2005

The England Rugby Supports’ Club (ERSC) have teamed up with SOS IRB Kit Aid to give England Rugby fans the chance to help hundreds of rugby mad Polish youngster...

EU Plumps Up Cracow's Infrastructure

Feb.15.2005

In one of the first projects in Poland planned to be co-financed with EU Structural Funds the EBRD is lender of record for a loan to the Krakow public transport...

Cracow's Dragon Will Breathe Again

Feb.17.2005

The proud dragon at the foot of the Royal Castle has been feeling a little sorry for himself of late. The reason is no great secret - he has lost the magic pow...

Cracow's Da Vinci Holds The Answer

Feb.16.2005

A fingerprint and stylistic touches uncovered during restoration of a disputed Renaissance masterpiece raises the possibility it may have been painted by Leonar...

Poland Set For Inflation Fall

16.Feb.2005

A senior official from the Polish central bank said Tuesday he expected the inflation rate to fall to quickly fall from the middle of the year. Monetary Pol...

Hollywood History

Feb.16.2005

'Schindlers List' and 'The Pianist' are the two most widely known films about the fate of Poland's Jews during the Second World War. The former was made by Step...

Multi-Million Project For The Cloth Hall

Feb.15.2005

The National Museum revealed plans today for an estimated twenty million zloty renovation of the Sukiennice, the magnificent cloth hall that sweeps across the M...

Shanty Festival Due To Kick Off

Feb.15.2005

What with Cracow being so close to the sea it was only a matter of time before Prince Krak hosted a Sea Shanty Festival. But hang on a moment.... Cracow is nowh...

Polish Troops Will Not Leave Iraq Yet

Feb. 15.2005

Poland will keep its soldiers in Iraq at least through the end of the year, when the U.N. mandate for foreign troops expires, the country's defense minister sai...

Tram For A Tryst

Feb.14.2005

Cracow's noisy family of blue trams was joined by a ravishing red number yesterday for a special Valentine's Day adventure. Cocking a snook at the grimy weather...

Royal Ridicule

Feb.11.2005

In the light of the merry news that Prince Charles is to wed his longtime companion, Camilla Parker-Bowles, it seems a tad unsporting to dredge up Prince Harry'...

An Unlikely Hero

Feb.11..2005

An elderly Polish newspaper editor has been making headlines in the West over the last month after he became embroiled in a controversial libel case. Seventy on...

Poland Seeks Apology For 1939 Pact

Feb.11.2005

Poland's president said Wednesday he will attend the commemorations of the end of World War II in May in Moscow, but said the notorious 1939 pact between Nazi G...

Jubilee Gem

Feb.11.2005

Those Polish composers may be preposterously difficult to pronounce, but don't let that stop you from zipping down to the Philharmonic Hall for this season's ju...

A Forgotten Odyssey

Feb.11.2005

Candles were lit yesterday in Warsaw at the monument to the victims of Stalin's deportations to the East. Aging survivors said prayers for loved ones that had p...

Bush To Ask Congress For $100 For Poland

Feb.10.2005

President Bush said Wednesday he will ask Congress for $100 million to help modernize armed forces in Poland, a staunch ally in the war in Iraq. During an O...

Polish Cardinal Caught Out

Feb.10.2005

The Vatican has raised the age of a Polish cardinal to 81 -- making him ineligible to vote in a conclave for a pope - after he acknowledged lying about his age...

Stalactites And Totem Poles

Feb.9.2005

If you've just arrived in the city, you may have noticed strange assemblies of branches propped against the walls of many houses. On Spzitalna street for exampl...

Cracow's Klezmer Kings

Jan.9.2005

If you've yet to sample the delights of Cracow's Klezmer scene, Cracow Life recommends galloping down to Alchemia without delay. Weave your way through the murk...

The Pope's Right Hand Man

Feb.9.2005

He's Pope John Paul II's faithful servant, his confidant, his gatekeeper. There's probably no one as sensitive about the Pope's image and health problems - ...

Brave New Underworld

Feb.8.2005

Ambitious plans were revealed this week for a multi-million zloty investment project in the crumbling cellars beneath Cracow's Market Square. The Likus brothers...

The Cracow Of Yesterday

Feb.8.2005

With temperatures pushing -15 it's a comforting thought that Cracow has as many cafes as it does icicles. If you feel like banishing the cold with a steaming cu...

Intelligence Chief Tries To Calm Storm

Feb.8.2005

The head of Polish military intelligence dismissed concerns that the leaking of a list of communist-era secret police files had damaged the nation's security. ...

Echoes Of Yalta's Failure Today

Feb.7.2005

Sixty years ago this week, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt and Josef Stalin gathered in Ukraine to map out the postwar world. For many, the blows are stil...

America Thanks Poland

Feb.7.2005

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Saturday thanked the government of Poland, an important ally in Iraq, for its continued support in the war despite public...

Autumn Elections For Poland

Feb.4.2005

The Democratic Left Alliance (SLD) National Council decided on Monday that the general election should take place in the fall, in accordance with the constituti...

Cold War Files Thrust Into Cyberspace

Feb.3.2005

Poles have flooded websites to view a list of names taken from communist-era files made public for the first time since the fall of Communism, searching for men...

Cracow Philharmonic Jubilee

Feb.2.2005

Sixty years ago this week, Cracow's newly formed Philharmonic Orchestra held its first concert. Barely two weeks had past since the city had been liberated from...

Prayers For The Pope

Feb.2.2005

Worshippers in the southern Polish town of Wadowice, the birthplace of Pope John Paul II, were praying Wednesday for his recovery after the pontiff was rushed t...

Investment Boom

Feb.2.2005

According to a report published yesterday by Merril Lynch, no other member country has gained more than Poland from EU accession. After a very positive firs...

Fat Thursday

Feb.2.2005

When the clock strikes midnight on February 2nd we will enter the glorious doughnut extravaganza that is 'Tlusty Czwartek' - Fat Thursday in the Anglo-Saxon ton...

Pope's Health Scare

Feb.2.2005

Pope John Paul spent a peaceful night in hospital after receiving urgent medical treatment for breathing difficulties, a Vatican source said on Wednesday. Th...

UEFA Reveals Polish-Ukrainian Bid

Feb.1.2005

UEFA finally revealed the bids yesterday for the European Football Cup of 2012. As rumours had suggested, Poland was amongst the hopeful entrants, this time in ...

Elvis Statue For Cracow

Jan.28.2005

Warsaw already has its Winnie the Pooh Street and John Lennon Avenue, and a few months ago it was declared that the Central Square in Nowa Huta - the communist ...

A Light In The Darkness

Jan.28.2005

A half-mile of railroad tracks blazed in the wintry dusk, marking what had been the final journey for many into the Nazi death camp. A train whistle split the s...

Forgotten Auschwitz Victims Seek Equality

Jan.27.2005

Three generations after the Holocaust, Europe must widen its fight against ethnic-based violence to protect the Roma people, who like the Jews were mass-murdere...

Police Clash With Anti-Putin Protesters

Jan.27.2005

Polish have police clashed with about 50 people protesting against Russian President Vladimir Putin, ahead of his visit to Krakow for Holocaust commemorations. ...

Returning To Auschwitz

Jan.27.2005

World leaders and survivors have stopped to remember the horror of the Holocaust at a snow-swept ceremony in Auschwitz-Birkenau on the 60th anniversary of the l...

Cracow Security Stretched For Anniversary

Jan.27.2005

Cracow's Royal pedigree may be indelible, but it's no thrusting metropolis these days. Four hundred years have passed since Cracow's capital status was transfer...

Sharon Responds To Auschwitz Anniversary

Jan.25.2005

In a speech marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Wednesday that the world "didn't lift a finger" to sto...

World Leaders Arrive In Poland

Jan.27.2005

World leaders began converging on southern Poland Wednesday for two days of emotional ceremonies marking the 60th anniversary of the liberation of the biggest N...

The Strange Case Of The Missing Durers

Jan.27.2005

Poland is putting new pressure on America's Cleveland Museum of Art and other major museums to return a widely dispersed collection of Albrecht Durer drawings l...

Poland To Open Borders

Jan.27.2005

European Union newcomer Poland is to enter the bloc's unified Schengen border regime on 28 October 2007, ending controls on the western frontier with Germany an...

Cheney Hails Yushchenko

Jan.27.2005

Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko is an "ally of freedom's cause," Vice President Dick Cheney said yesterday in toasting the new leader, who leans toward th...

A Voice From The Past

Jan.25.2005

If life was hell in Auschwitz during Spring and Summer, then what must the experience have been like in Winter? World leaders attending the sixtieth anniversary...

Publisher Guilty Of Libelling Pope

Jan.25.2005

A court Tuesday convicted the publisher of a satirical magazine of insulting Polish-born Pope John Paul II and fined him $6,500. The ruling against Jerzy Ur...

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