Marching In Mourning
One of Cracow's most poignant annual events takes place this Sunday in the bedraggled district of Podgorze. The low-key 'March of Remembrance' recalls the liqui...

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President Goes Pink In The Face
A large group of gay protesters have forced their way into the hall at Berlin’s Humboldt University and disrupted a lecture by Polish president Lech Kaczynski c...

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A Cheesy Tale
The legendary 'oscypek' highland cheese has joined the ranks of such venerable gastronomic specialties as champagne, parma ham and stilton cheese, after winning...

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Manggha Magic
Andrzej Wajda, the grand old man of Polish cinema, turned eighty this week, fresh from winning the award for lifetime achievement at the Berlin Film Festival. ...

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Spain Opens Doors To Poles
The Spanish government announced Thursday it will lift immigration restrictions for workers from the EU's new Eastern European member states in an effort to cou...

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Church Apologises For Collaborators
The Catholic Church in Poland has apologized for the harm caused by those priests who collaborated with the communist secret police. A statement issued by P...

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Synagogue Set For New Lease Of Life
One of Poland's most beautiful synagogues has received a substantial grant from the European Union. The Sephardi Synagogue in the south eastern town of Zamos...

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The Prodigy To Play Poland
Katowice's glorious 'Spodek' building is alone enough to warrant a day-trip to that city. The gargantuan 70s edifice, which looks like a U.F.O that's landed in ...

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Poland To Withdraw Troops From Iraq
Polish President Lech Kaczynski said in Warsaw today that Polish troops will leave Iraq in 2007 or even late this year. According to a Polish radio report, K...

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Aristocratic Diplomat In Hot Water
A former Polish diplomat Piotr Dzieduszycki has been detained in connection with an attempt to smuggle 75 kilos of brown heroin from Poland to Germany. The ...

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Swan Flu Cases Confirmed
A third wild swan in Poland has tested positive for the H5N1 strain of bird flu, a lab announced today. The swan was found dead Saturday in Torun, about 120 ...

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Krakow In Pole Position
Cracow has topped Prague in popularity. For the first time ever, more tourists visited Cracow than Prague in 2005. Some 8 million tourists came to Cracow and 3....

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Vodka War
Poland and Hungary are quarrelling over the definition of vodka. For the Poles vodka is “an alcoholic beverage derived from cereals or potatoes.” Historically v...

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Director Turns Eighty
Andrzej Wajda – one of Poland’s most outstanding and renowned directors – is celebrating his 80th birthday today. Wajda is the proud owner of an Oscar statue...

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A Holy Row
Press secretary for the Polish Episcopate, father Jozef Kloch has stated that the Church is strongly against working Sundays for the personnel of shops, service...

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Russians Reject Verdict
Russia’s military prosecutors have refused to recognize Polish officers murdered in Katyn forest by Stalin’s NKVD police as victims of Stalinist repressions. ...

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John Paul II Returns To Screens
‘John Paul the Second’, the American-Italian-Polish film co-production directed by John Kent Harrison is having its Polish premiere tonight in Krakow and Wadowi...

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Finger Points To Soviets
An Italian parliamentary commission has concluded "beyond any reasonable doubt'' that the Soviet Union was behind the 1981 shooting of Pope John Paul II, the fi...

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Flight Deals With CentralWings
Book between Monday, March 6, and Sunday, March 12. Centralwings, the budget offshoot of LOT Polish Airways, has flights to Poland from £1 one-way excluding tax...

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Swiss Fork Out For Poland
Switzerland will grant Poland 489 million Swiss Francs in aid for new EU members, Swiss economy minister Joseph Deissem said on Thursday in Warsaw after talks w...

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Celebrating Szymanowski
Music and mountain lovers have a treat in store this weekend with the 30th anniversary of the Karol Szymanowski Museum in Zakopane. After Chopin, Szymanowsk...

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Planty Set For Revamp
The city has announced that the final wave of renovation of the Planty Gardens is to begin this month. The leafy border to the Old Town is one of Cracow's best-...

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Probe Goes Ahead
A team of Roman Catholic Church historians and experts has been pulled together to check the files of communist-era secret police for evidence of collaboration ...

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Krakow feels the love!
After a contentious run up Love Organisation finally arrived in Krakow with a bang on Saturday at the nightclub formerly known as Rdza. The party’s promotional ...

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Is Garlic The Answer?
A resident of Woliborz in south-western Poland has celebrated his 116th birthday. Pawel Parniak has 11 grandchildren, 32 great grand-children and 22 great-great...

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Miraculous Rescue Of Miner
A coal miner who was trapped underground for almost five days has been brought to the surface. He is now in a hospital, dehydrated after 111 hours without food ...

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Polish Tooth Wizards To Bolster NHS
40 dentists from Poland are to be recruited to work in the NHS in Scotland this year. Deputy Health Minister Lewis MacDonald has been welcoming the first sta...

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Roly Poly
Film buffs have the chance to meet one of Europe's most feted film directors on Tuesday when Andrzej Wajda attends the screening of Przekladaniec (Roly Poly) at...

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Celluloid Sensation
Two Polish film fanatics have jumped into the record books (or rather sat into the record books) after seeing out a colossal 115 hour session in their local cin...

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Silver For Poland
Poland’s Tomasz Sikora has won the silver medal at the Winter Games in Turin. He put up an almost flawless performance in the 15-kilometre mass-start biathlon e...

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On The Big Screen
We've been wanting to have go at film reviews for a while now but never quite got round to it. But perhaps unluckily for you, one of our crack squad of film man...

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Pope's Aide Becomes Cardinal
Archbishop of Krakow Stanislaw Dziwisz has been named cardinal by Pope Benedict. While the appointment is seen as a victory for the Church’s more open wing in P...

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Polish Maid Given Tough Sentence
A maid whose clients included Robert DeNiro and Candice Bergen was sentenced Tuesday to one to three years in prison by a judge who said the defendant was "clea...

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T-Shirts Whip Up A Storm
A university in Poland has banned an exhibition of T-shirts bearing slogans such as "I didn't cry when the Pope died" and "I've got Aids", saying the show was t...

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Scottish Bishop looks to Poland
Bishop Peter Moran of Aberdeen is visiting Poland to invite bishops to establish links which could lead to Polish priests coming to work in his far-flung Scotti...

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Poles And Brits Win Design Awards
Britain's The Guardian and Polish daily Rzeczpospolita have been voted the world's best-designed newspapers. Five judges from the Society for News Design rev...

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Arrests Over Roof Collapse
Prosecutors said yesterday they have filed charges against three managers of a company that owned an exhibition hall whose roof collapsed last month, killing 65...

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Holocaust denier given jail time
Right-wing British historian David Irving was sentenced to three years in prison yesterday. Irving admitted to an Austrian court that he denied the Holocaus...

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Poles recruit Chinese students
A delegation of Polish higher educational institutions held a seminar on studying in Poland here on Monday, with the aim of attracting more Chinese students. ...

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Pioneer Historian Passes Away
Jozef Gierowski, a non-Jew who was a pioneer of Jewish studies in Poland, died last Friday at 83. Joachim Russek, head of Krakow’s Judaica Foundation-Center...

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Fat Thursday
Today is Tlusty Czwartek - 'Fat Thursday' in the Catholic calendar. And for the Poles, one product above all others has gained hallowed significance on this day...

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Love comes to Krakow!
On Saturday 25th February one of the Top Club Brands from the United Kingdom, LOVE, will work along side RDZA – one of Krakow's leading nightclub venues, to cre...

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Iranian Team Cold-Shouldered
Poland's Foreign Minister Stefan Meller on Friday ruled out allowing any Iranian researchers to examine the scale of the Holocaust committed by the German Nazis...

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Doctors Demand Pay Rises
Medical specialists in south-eastern Poland have begun a protest against low pay. About 1,000 doctors from 13 medical clinics are to be absent at work, having t...

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Irving In The Dock
British historian David Irving, facing charges of Holocaust denial in an Austrian court on Monday, told reporters on his way into court he no longer questioned ...

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Beginning Of Diplomatic Thaw
An advisor to the Russian president Sergei Yastzhemsbki is in Warsaw for talks on the improvement of Polish-Russian relations. He is meeting foreign minister St...

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Film Unveiled Of Dresden Bombing
German filmmakers have tackled the touchy subject of whether the Allied firebombing of Dresden at the end of World War Two was a "war crime" with a carefully ba...

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Journalist Kicked Out Of Belarus
A correspondent of leading Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza has been expelled from Belarus. Waclaw Radziwinowicz was approached by two Belarusian officers at a...

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Director Returns To Childhood
Celebrated Polish director Andrzej Wajda said on Wednesday he aims to finish a film close to his heart this year about the 1940 Soviet massacre of 15,000 Polish...

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2010 For Euro?
Poland does not plan to adopt the euro before 2010, Polish Finance Minister Zyta Gilowska said in an interview published on Friday. "Poland cannot enter the...

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