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'Just Flying Off To The Dentist...'
Germans regularly pop over the Polish border for a spot of dentistry. However, it seems that the cheaper prices are now luring folks from even further afield.
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Reflections On Poland
In a long article reflecting on the current state of Poland, a leading authority noted that today 'there is a stronger sense than ever of "two Polands": one mor... | Comment |
The Italian Job
Forty-six Polish aces are poised to take part in the Winter Olympics, which begin tomorrow in Turin, Northern Italy.
Poland will be represented in nine event... | Comment |
Bollywood Hits Poland
Bollywood bonanzas are not normally known for getting jiggy with it at -20 centigrade. But the producers of 'Fanaah' - a tale of troubled love set against the b... | Comment |
Winter Deals Further Blows
Heavy snowfall caused roofs across Poland to collapse Tuesday, but no deaths were reported just nine days after the country's worst building disaster claimed 65... | Current Affairs |
British MP Will Bike To Poland
Former Conservative MP Edwina Currie has had more than her fair share of thrills and spills, but her new venture should win her more friends than foes.
Long ... | Comment |
Cartoon Furore Continues
Head of the Muslim Religious Union in Poland Tomasz Miskiewicz demanded an apology from the editor-in-chief of the Rzeczpospolita daily which reprinted caricatu... | Comment |
3 In 4 Oppose War
72 percent of Poles want the country's mission in Iraq to terminate, shows a public opinion poll. The figure is slightly higher than a year ago, when it stood a... | Current Affairs |
Princess Anne In Poland
Princess Anne is paying a visit to Poland. Her meeting with Poland’s First Lady Maria Kaczynska focused on charity organizations in the U.K. and Poland, and the... | Comment |
Reform In Wake Of Roof Collapse
Poland's prime minister said new federal regulations would allow authorities to close buildings whose roofs aren't cleared of snow, and investigators picked thr... | Current Affairs |
Government Closes Buildings At Risk
The government has ordered the temporary closure of some large buildings fearing their roofs may collapse in a repeat of a weekend disaster that killed 67 peopl... | Current Affairs |
Poles Pay Tribute
Poles came from around the country to Katowice today to lay flowers and light candles in memory of the 62 people who died when the roof of an exhibition hall co... | Current Affairs |
Tragic Toll Of Collapsed Hall
Rescuers abandoned hope Sunday of finding survivors beneath the wreckage of an exhibition hall that collapsed, killing 66 people, and authorities were bringing ... | Current Affairs |
Europe is last hope for Polish forests
A coalition of Polish NGOs including OTOP (BirdLife in Poland) has today turned to the European Commission to help secure the long term future of some of its mo... | Current Affairs |
Millions Earmarked For Polish Roads
Poland will spend over 100 billion zlotys(more than 30 billion U.S.dollars) on the construction of new highways and motorways by 2013, announced Prime Minister ... | Current Affairs |
Rapid Railway Line From Tricity
It will be the fastest railway line in Poland. EU will forward about 3 billion PLN (780 million euro) to Polish National Railway (PKP) to finance the change of ... | Current Affairs |
Walesa Riles Castro
U.S. diplomats arranged for Cuban dissidents to get a pep talk from former Polish President Lech Walesa on Saturday in the latest chapter of Washington's long-r... | Current Affairs |
Pole Revs Up For Formula One
As temperatures continue to plummet, we thought we'd bring you news of a less freezing variety. Indeed, whilst motorists brave the snows and ice here in Polska,... | Comment |
Poland To Host Miss World
In these politically correct times, the British are somewhat awkward about their creation of the Miss World beauty contest. However, viewers have voted with the... | Comment |
Bargain Flights To Poland
If you're on the look out for some great deals on flights to Poland, look no further.
Centralwings, LOT Polish Airlines’ cut-price alter-ego, is offering fli... | Comment |
Man Who Shot Pope Freed
Mehmet Ali Agca, the man who shot Pope John Paul II, was released from his Turkish jail today after serving over 25 years behind bars.
Agca was a right-wing ... | Current Affairs |
Uproar In Parliament
The Polish Sejm (parliament) descended into farce yesterday when the Speaker of the House refused to set in motion a vote on the new budget.
Opposition MPs c... | Current Affairs |
Pole Joins Potter Adventure
Oscar nominated cinematographer Slawomir Idziak has won the commission to film the next Harry Potter movie, 'The Order of the Phoenix.'
Idziak, who won fame ... | Art and Culture |
Freedom Balloons Will Fly Over Belarus
One thousand coloured balloons will soar to Belarus from Bialystok, northeast Poland next Monday in support of democratic change in the country, the Polish bran... | Comment |
Pope Plans Polish Trip
The Vatican envoy for papal tours Alberto Gasparri arrived in Poland today with the aim of touring the route of the planned visit by Pope Benedict XVI to that c... | Current Affairs |
Polish Maestro Takes Tokyo
An injury to his hands in World War II cut short Stanislaw Skrowaczewski's career as a concert pianist. But the 82-year-old composer and conductor, who has left... | Art and Culture |
Ten ambassadors recalled
Poland’s new conservative right wing government has recalled ten ambassadors believed to be linked with the former communist regime. Diplomats who have held pos... | Current Affairs |
Brit Wins Polish Reality TV Romp
A British man has been chosen as the winner of Bar Europa, the Polish version of TV's Big Brother.
Tom Amos, 28, from Malvern, Worcs, entered the contest as ... | Comment |
If You Can't Beat 'Em
Father Adam Boniecki, editor of the prestigious journal Tygodnik Powszechny (Universal Weekly) recently lamented that Poles now seemed more interested in shoppi... | Comment |
Poland Under The Spotlight
News portals are being deluged with articles reasserting that the CIA has secret holding camps in Eastern Europe for top terror suspects.
The issue returned... | Current Affairs |
EU Shock Up For Debate
Poorer European Union newcomers may agree to a reduction in the aid they receive from the bloc's coffers but not to as big a cut as current EU president Britain... | Current Affairs |
Tragic Saga of Swimming Champ
Olympic and world swimming champion Otylia Jedrzejczak could face eight years in prison after being charged with unintentionally causing a fatal car crash.
H... | Current Affairs |
Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'
Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the award of the prestigious European weekly European Voice as statesman of the year 2005.T he Polish head of state has been... | Current Affairs |
Warsaw Pact A Pandora's Box
Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”... | Current Affairs |
Papal Premiere Stirs Hearts
Pope Benedict and Oscar winner Jon Voight attended a special screening on Thursday of a television mini-series in which Voight plays the late Pope John Paul.
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Greenpeace Blocks Ship
Rough seas on Thursday forced Greenpeace activists to give up a blockade of a ship they say carried 25,000 tonnes of genetically modified (GMO) Argentinian soya... | Current Affairs |
Fly From Lennon to Lech
Budget airline Wizz Air is to start flights from Liverpool John Lennon Airport to the Polish city of Gdansk.
The carrier, which in less than 12 months has c... | Comment |
Poland May Yet Host Cup
UEFA have shortlisted Italy and joint bids from Croatia/Hungary and Poland/Ukraine to host the the European Championship in 2012, rejecting rival bids from Gree... | Comment |
Copernicus Discovered In Polish Church
A Polish archaeologist claims to have found the skull of the father of modern astronomy, Nicolas Copernicus (1473- 1543).
The apparent discovery was made i... | Comment |
Polish Friend Honored...
The European Union commissioner for Media and Information, Viviane Reding, received the highest Polish distinction in culture this week, the prestigious Gloria ... | Comment |
New Plans for Poland
President elect Lech Kaczynski said he would soon give up his membership of the Law and Justice (PiS) party and PiS' honorary chairmanship. "In my opinion the d... | Current Affairs |
Kaczynski and the Bear
During the course of his election campaign, President-elect Lech Kaczynski had naught but strong words for Poland's eastern nemisis, Russia. Stirring up anti-ru... | Comment |
Kaczynski takes it!
Lech Kaczynski, Warsaw's mayor, won Sunday's election for Poland's president, marking a second unexpected success for his Law and Justice party (PiS) following ... | Current Affairs |
Election News!
Yesterday, Poles cast their ballots in the second round of the Presidential election. While Donald Tusk owned a large lead only weeks ago, his rival Lech Kaczyn... | Current Affairs |
'Gay-Bomb' Scare...
An unknown gay rights group claimed it planted a dozen fake bombs around Warsaw that paralysed the Polish capital on Thursday, three days before the second roun... | Current Affairs |
Walesa, Part 2!
Jaroslaw Walesa, the 29-year-old son of Solidarity founder Lech Walesa, pledged Tuesday to uphold Roman Catholic and family values as he begins his career in pa... | Current Affairs |
Economic Future
President Aleksander Kwasniewski left for Zagreb, Croatia on Friday morning to take part in the 12th annual meeting of Presidents from 18 central, eastern and s... | Current Affairs |
Hooligans hit Gdansk!
Recently, hooliganism reared its ugly (bald) head in Torun, where football fans on their way to a match in Gdansk, attacked police.
An estimated 500 fans wer... | Comment |
U.S. Invite!
During talks with outgoing Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski, U.S. President George Bush invited Poland's new foreign and defense ministers to Washington.... | Current Affairs |
Gdansk Hosts TRAKO!?
The TRAKO 2005 International Railway Fair in Gdansk was opened at 10.00 yesderday. The event has gathered over 220 Polish and foreign exhibitors. It's the large... | Business |
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