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Poland To Reduce Number Of troops In Iraq

Oct.15.2004

Poland said Friday it plans to reduce the number of its troops in Iraq from early next year and will not remain there "an hour longer than is sensible." Pri...

Poland Puffed Up By EU Bank

Oct.15.2004

The European Investment Bank said it had approved loans of 760 million euros (940 million dollars) for investment projects in Poland. On the occasion of the...

Polish Pantheon: A Hidden Cracow Gem

Oct.14.2002

Six weeks ago one of Poland greatest poets was laid to rest in a mythical crypt on the banks of the River Vistula. Czeslaw Milosz, a Nobel Laureate, was ninety ...

The 10th Architectural Biennale

Oct.13.2004

The 10th International Architectural biennale will kick off tomorrow, ending on 17th October 2004. The Biennale will take place under the heading "Architecture ...

Autumnal Adventures

Oct.12.2004

If you've got a bit of time on your hands this week it really is worth going to Ojcow. The trees are showing their richest colours and the valleys are ablaze wi...

Wooden Treasures

Oct.11.2004

Poland's Wooden Churches: An Exhibition at the Archdiocesan Museum, ul. Kanonicza (until 20th November 2004) Poland was in ruins at the end of the last war, ...

Polish-led force in Iraq to leave base

Oct.11.2004

The command of the Polish-led multinational force in Iraq will move out of a camp that includes ancient Babylonian archaeological sites by year's end, Poland's ...

Eastern Visions

Oct.8.2004

*Tomorrow is the last chance to catch this exhibition by a crop of Lithuania's leading artists. It's being hosted by Cracow's mecca of contemporary art, the Bun...

Mayor Fails To Rise To The Occasion

Oct.8.2004

The organisers of a Polish erotic fair vowed to defy a ban by the Warsaw mayor and go ahead in staging a contest for the woman who can have sex with as many men...

To The Ends Of The Earth

Oct.8.2004

The National Geographic Magazine Celebrates Five Years In Poland With An Exhibition At The Manggha Centre (7th October-9th November). You could write a chapt...

Wolfowitz Tries to Whip Things Up

Oct.4.2004

US.Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz compared the crimes of Saddam Hussein to the atrocities of the Nazi and Stalinist eras in a speech in Warsaw on Tuesd...

Celluloid Salute

Oct.6.2004

It's not the happiest of movies for holiday viewing but film and history buffs may not want to miss out on the special screening of Andrzej Wajda's acclaimed fi...

Showbiz Hits Town

Oct.5.2004

Cracovians and travellers were faced with a peculiar sight today as they strolled down the main thoroughfare of Slawkowska street. For much of the day, a small ...

Folk Frolics

Oct.5.2004

11th Folk Festival: The Magical Green Islands (6th-10th October 2004). If you've got a soft spot for folk shenanigans, a bonanza of events are due to kick of...

Polish Plan To Pull Out of Iraq

Oct.04..2004

Poland, a key U.S. ally in Iraq, should withdraw its troops from the Mideast nation at the end of next year, Poland's defense minister said in an interview publ...

The Warsaw Uprising Ends: October 1944

Oct.4.2004

Sixty years ago this week, the Warsaw Uprising, the Polish action to liberate Warsaw from the Nazi occupiers, reached its close. The Rising had originally been ...

Clash Of The Cracow Clans

Oct.04.2004

A wave of anxiety seemed to sweep through Cracow on Friday night. 'Do you know what's happening this weekend?' people asked furtively. 'It's the Cracovia Wi...

Nikifor: The Legend Grows

Oct.4.2004

All kinds of stories abound about the deaf and mute artist Nikifor Krynicki (1896-1968), the subject of an award-winning new film by Krzysztof Krauze. There wer...

Poles Uneasy With Iraq Policy

Sept.27.2004

Sixty percent of Poles would support an immediate withdrawal of the country's soldiers from Iraq, while more than 70 percent believe their government made a mis...

Discover a Different Side to the City

Sep.16.2004

European Heritage Days: The Second Annual Open House Day in Podgorze (25th-26th September 2004). The oft-overlooked district of Podgorze opens its doors to a...

Shooting Starts on Pope Film

Aug.14.2002

Italian producers began shooting a film on Saturday about the early life of Pope John Paul II. The film is being made in in southern Poland, where the pontiff g...

Pautsch Portrait Pagaent

Sep.14.2004

The Portraits of Fryderyk Pautsch: Archdiocesan Museum, ul. Kanonicza 19 (until December 30th) Even if you don't like the paintings in this exhibition it'...

Communist Icon To Be Renamed After Reagan

Sep.10.2004

'Uncle Joe' Stalin has probably turned in his grave so often now that he's given up bothering - the complete overturning of the communist system in Europe must ...

Fabulous Fruits of a Franco-Polish Tree

Sep.10.2004

Treasures from the Collection of the Polish Library in Paris. September 3rd - November 21st 2004, at the National Gallery, Cracow. The title of this exhib...

September Shenanigans

Oct.7.2004

If you've just arrived in Cracow, you'll have noticed that half of the Rynek has turned into a building site. Diggers dig, and hammers hammer, and the race is n...

Poland and Ukraine Launch Joint Bid For Euro 2012

Sept.02.2004

Marek Ziolkowski, Poland's ambassador to the Ukraine, confirmed yesterday that his country will launch a joint bid with the Ukraine to host the 2012 European Fo...

The King of the Tarmac

Dec.14.2002

Robert Korzeniowski's long road has come to a end when the Pole won an unprecedented third Olympic 50 kilometre race walk title in a row. There was barely an...

A Hero's Farewell

Aug.27.2004

Czeslaw Milosz, the grand old man of Polish letters, was laid to rest this afternoon in Cracow's mythical 'Church on the Rock'. The send off followed a traditio...

Musical Banquet Set To Start

Aug.13.2004

The 29th International Festival of Music in Old Cracow, 15th-31st August 2004 ('Muzyka w Starym Krakowie). This weekend, one of the star musical events of ...

Victory Snatched from the Wisla Boys

Aug.12.2004

OK, the headline may be a slight exaggeration but even the most die-hard Real Madrid fan would be hard pushed to deny that the Poles gave the Spaniards a fair r...

Football Legends Fly Into Town

Aug.11.2004

Cracow's normally sedate airport came to a standstill yesterday afternoon when football royalty touched down on Polish soil. Spanish superteam Real Madrid ar...

Cracow's Airport Will Double Its Capacity

Aug.12.2004

Cracow's modest airport is set for a radical transformation this autumn with over four million dollars earmarked for the complex's expansion. As much as thre...

Warsaw Uprising Remembered

July.30.2002

Boy Scouts from across Poland paid tribute on Thursday to the insurgents who rose up in 1944 against the Nazi occupiers of Warsaw, retracing their paths through...

Warsaw Mayor Calls For German WWII Apology

July.21.2004

Warsaw Mayor Lech Kaczynski has called on German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder to apologise to Poles for Germany's WWII aggression. Schroeder should offer hi...

The Warsaw Uprising

July.27.2004

Sixty years ago this week Poland was poised for one of the most dramatic (and as it turned out tragic) chapters in the war. With the Soviet tanks advancing on W...

Echoes of the Bad Old Days

July.21.2004

The International Federation of Journalists and its regional organisation the European Federation of Journalists warned this month that a battery of legal acti...

Poland and Hungary Singled Out for Tourist Boom

July.20.2004

The ten countries that joined the European Union last May could generate 3 million jobs and 47 billion euros ($56 billion) in added economic output if they boos...

Weekend Warriors Re-enact Historic Battle

July.19.2004

More than 1,500 knights in shining armour crossed swords on Saturday to re-enact the 1410 Battle of Grunwald, the greatest of all medieval clashes, which saw Po...

Poland Reassesses Iraq Policy

July.19.2004

Poland will keep troops in Iraq at least through the end of 2005, but firmly intends to reduce its presence at the start of next year, the nation's prime minist...

Cracow's Breakdancing Buccaneers

July.16.2004

A brilliant blue sky had broken through, and it seemed that this year's 3rd of May holiday was going to be a belter. Spring - so treasured here in this land of ...

Easyjet will fly to Poland

July.16.2004

British firm Easyjet announced on Tuesday that they are launching a new wave of expansion in Eastern Europe. Six new routes are planned, including more flights ...

Painful Anniversary Draws Near

July.12.2004

Between July 30th and August 2nd, a number of ceremonies will be held in Warsaw to mark the sixtieth anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising, the last major battle t...

The Silver Mountain

July.07.2004

The Camaldolese Monks and the Silver Mountain: An Exhibition at the Barbican, Cracow (until the end of July). On a bright May morning this year, the remote...

A Secret Garden Reborn

June.30.2004

Sometimes it feels that you can hardly turn a corner in Cracow without stumbling across a walled garden or an arcaded courtyard. Sadly though, most of the garde...

A Forgotten String to a Master's Bow

June.01.2004

Jan Matejko: The Great Illustrator - An Exhibition at the Matejko House, The National Museum of Cracow (until August 31st, 2004). Somewhere, perhaps hidden a...

Reclaiming the Past: The Galicia Museum

May.12.2004

A new museum opened in Cracow's historic Jewish district a fortnight ago under the name of the Galicia Jewish Museum. Coupled with the recently re-opened Wyspia...

Black Sea Blues

May.06.2004

Andrzej Kramarz's 'Czarne Morze': An exhibition of photographs from the Black Sea coast, Camelot Gallery, Cracow (23rd April-16th May). In the opening scene...

Swashbuckling Splendours at the Czartoryski Museum

April.26.2004

Few museums have been so tossed by the storms as the Czartoryski, and of those that were subjected to similar disasters, few have managed to emerge as unscathed...

The Seven Deadly Sins

April.19.2004

An Exhibition at the International Cultural Centre, Cracow, April 7th - May 30th, 2004. With so many museums and exhibition spaces in Cracow to lure the visi...

Treasures from Polish Collections in Lwow

April.26.2004

Cracow is often described as Poland's 'second city' or 'cultural capital', but for many Poles who were brought up before the war, there were other, grander citi...

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