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Jan.30.2012 | |
British pop star Elton John is set to perform a concert in the TriCity, at the Ergo Arena in Gdansk neighbouring town Sopot. The singer-songwriter will also p... | |
Jan.8.2012 | |
Gdansk has named the world's first street after Vaclav Havel, in honour of the Czech dissident, playwright, and former president, who died in December 2011 ag... | |
Dec.5.2011 | |
Acclaimed Polish film director Andrzej Wajda is currently working on his forthcoming flick, a biopic of the legendary Solidarity leader and one of Poland's mo... | |
Nov.5.2011 | |
Gdynia, a Tri-City neighbor of Gdansk, has voted in Poland's first openly gay MP as part of the latest parliamentary elections which took place in October o... | |
Oct.2.2011 | |
As many as fifty human skulls have been discovered in Gdansk by a church employee of the Repentant Sinners Chapel, thenews.pl has reported. The chapel is the ... | |
Sep.3.2011 | |
Gdansk hosted the 31st anniversary of the landmark August Agreement, which marked the first steps towards the creation of the Solidarity Movement and the down... | |
Jul.31.2011 | |
The city of Gdynia has designed a tourist solar boat - the first of its kind in Poland and one of the few of its kind the world. The Korab scientific organizati... | |
Jul.11.2011 | |
Gdansk hosted the World Volleyball League finals recently, where 16 hard fought matches in the Ergo Arena saw Poland walk away with a Bronze medal. The first tw... | |
Jun.24.2011 | |
With Coldplay's summer tour well underway, the news is that their new single Every Teardrop is a Waterfall is being included in their set. German audiences were... | |
Jun.5.2011 | |
Up until now, travelling between two of Poland's major cities such as Wroclaw and Gdansk was a grueling affair. Travelling direct by car or train is incredibl... | |
May.2.2011 | |
Residents of cities across Poland, the native country of John Paul II, celebrated the beatification of the former pope. A huge ceremony led by current Pope Be... | |
Apr.1.2011 | |
Cheerleaders from the Tri-City town of Gdynia have won an online competition in search of the best cheerleading group in Europe. The Asseco Prokom Gdynia team... | |
Mar.14.2011 | |
Head of Gdansk’s Cyklop gallery Wladyslaw Zuchowski has announced an astonishing new acquisition - a 19th century photograph believed to depict Polish romanti... | |
Feb.6.2011 | |
The city of Gdansk will be home to a reconstructed Shakespearean Theatre, a project set to be completed in 2013. Heading the project is Jerzy Limon who in the... | |
Jan.9.2011 | |
Astronomer and one-time mayor of Gdansk, Jan Heweliusz (also known as Johannes Hevelius) was born exactly 400 years ago, and to celebrate, the year of 2011 ha... | |
Dec.6.2010 | |
One of Gdansk's most unusual Christmas traditions is the annual Santa Claus motorcycle parade, which took place on 5 December this year. Despite bitter cold a... | |
Nov.7.2010 | |
British filmmaker and artist Peter Greenaway has received an honorary doctorate from the Gdansk Fine Arts Academy of Gdansk. Greenaway attended a ceremony in hi... | |
Oct.2.2010 | |
The results of an internet poll on the Education Ministry's website to choose a patron for Poland's first satellite are expected this month, with 17th century G... | |
July.20.2010 | |
Father Henryk Jankowski, one of the famed "Solidarity Chaplains", has been laid to rest in Gdansk. He was 74. The funeral ceremony was held in St. Bridget's... | |
June.16.2010 | |
LOT Polish Airlines is hoping to undercut rail and bus operators this summer by introducing significantly reduced fairs. This could mean that holiday-makers ... | |
June.22.2010 | |
An 84-year-old lady from Gdansk has married her childhood sweetheart after over half a century apart, divided by the Atlantic Ocean. Last November, Danuta La... | |
April.20.2010 | |
Poland bid farewell to the presidential couple on Sunday after one of the blackest weeks since the communist era. 96 people perished on the flight to Smolen... | |
April.12.2010 | |
Poland is in mourning after the tragic deaths of President Lech Kaczynski, his wife and 94 other people when their government plane crashed near Smolensk, Russi... | |
March.15.2010 | |
Gdansk is spearheading a network that will promote the work of legendary English scribe, William Shakespeare. The Baltic city is already a beacon of Shakesp... | |
Feb.23.2010 | |
Poland has a new celebrity - a four-legged fellow called Baltic. Indeed, so incredible is the furry chap's story that he has melted hearts around the world. ... | |
Feb.12.2010 | |
The qualifying groups have been announced for the Euro 2012 soccer showdown. Poland and Ukraine are the luckiest of the lot as they are already through as host ... | |
Jan.18.2010 | |
A far-reaching poll that surveyed some 16,000 people across 32 large towns and cities suggests that Gdynia is the happiest place in Poland. The poll, which w... | |
Jan.18.2010 | |
Gdynia's epic summer music fest, Heineken Open'er, has scooped the top prize at the inaugural European Music Awards. The Polish event, the biggest annual par... | |
Nov.19.2009 | |
Ryanair is opening a new link between Bristol and Gdansk, with tickets going on sale as of 20th November. The decision marks yet another notch in the growth ... | |
Nov.19.2009 | |
Ryszard Kaczorowski, the last president of the Polish government-in-exile and an honorary citizen of Gdansk, has refused to sign a document to the effect that h... | |
Oct.27.2009 | |
The lady who, as a teenager, was sexually assaulted by film director Roman Polanski, may yet prove his greatest ally. Samantha Geimer, who was 13 at the tim... | |
27.10.2009 | |
Gdansk is in the running for a regional office of the European parliament. "[It} would be a great symbol of the Solidarity Movement and the position of our c... | |
Sept.25.2009 | |
The cornerstone of a Shakespearean theatre has been laid in Gdansk on the site of its historic predecessor. The project, which will provide an echo of the city'... | |
Sept.3.2009 | |
The eyes of the world turned to Gdansk on September 1st when leaders gathered to commemorate the outbreak of the Second World War. The first shots of WWII we... | |
July.22.2009 | |
Gdansk's historic shipyard - which seized the world's imagination during the Solidarity struggle - has been granted a €251m aid package, with the aim of saving ... | |
July.24th.2009 | |
Gdansk hero and former president Lech Walesa attended a ceremony to mark the first step in the raising of a state of the art football stadium in the city. Th... | |
June.18.2009 | |
The Arctic Monkeys, Basement Jaxx, Placebo,The Prodigy and the Kings of Leon are just a few of the ice-hot acts expected in theTri-City for this year's Heineken... | |
June.18.2009 | |
An inhabitant of the northern Polish town of Elk is due to face trial after it emerged that he had been selling fake Viagra over the internet. Ninety charges... | |
May.21.2009 | |
The freedom summit celebrating the fall of communism may have been soured by the sorry plight of Poland's shipyards, but one event is still billed to go ahead i... | |
May.21.2009 | |
June 4th should be a glorious day in Gdansk. It was twenty years ago that the Communist regime fell, with the Solidarity Party triumphing in Eastern Europe's fi... | |
May.13.2009 | |
UEFA has picked Gdansk and three other cities in Poland as primary sites for the Euro 2012 football tournament.Poznan, Wroclaw also received the good news. Crac... | |
Feb.12.2009 | |
If anyone were to film a biopic on Solidarity hero Lech Walesa, it would have to be famed Polish cinema master Andzej Wajda. The directed was in part motivated ... | |
Dec.03.2008 | |
The subsidies previously granted to the Gdynia and Szczecin shipyards were recently acknowledged to be illegal by the EU. The financial aid was originally desig... | |
Aug.07.2008 | |
Poland has been granted a reprieve by the European Commission and now has a new deadline of the 12th of September for submitting plans to restructure the Baltic... | |
Jul.14.2008 | |
This weekend, citizens and visitors to Gdansk experienced a bit of the paranormal as a "UFO" swooped through the city's skies. The "unidentified flying object" ... | |
Jun.17.2008 | |
German Prime Minister Angela Merkel met with Polish PM Donald Tusk in Gdansk to discuss eastward expansion of the EU and the EU treaty. Despite Ireland's recent... | |
May.19.2008 | |
While football fans in any country generally aren't known for being especially civilized, usually the worst they do is beat each other up. However, unfortunatel... | |
Apr.04.2008 | |
Recently the Gdansk Shipyard received both good and bad news from the European Union. The good news: they may not have to pay back the 750m zloty public subsidy... | |
Feb.05.2008 | |
In remembrance of the historic events surrounding the Solidarity movement in Poland, the Polish Film Institute and the European Centre for Solidarity (ECS) in G... | |
Oct.22.2007 | |
Under the threat of bankruptcy since the European Union rather politely, but firmly requested the historic Gdansk shipyard cut capacity and repay 1.3 billion eu... | |
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