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Polish To Be Top Gun
Prime Minister Marek Belka believes that Poland's participation in air space patrols over the Baltic states attests to the fact that the Polish air force achiev... | Current Affairs |
Polish Ultimate Champs
At the recent "Poznan Unleashed" Ultimate tournament, held in Poznan, Poland, two Polish ultimate frisbee teams faced one another in a tournament-style match. ... | Comment |
Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!
Solidarity's iconic figure-head, Lech Walesa, has recently made public his desire for a democratized Belarus. Specifically, Walesa mentioned that a 'revolution... | Current Affairs |
This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!
Belarussian information minister thinks that the idea to install in Poland a radio station broadcasting for Belarus is an idea of Polish trouble stirring politi... | Current Affairs |
Polish Parlimentarians Denied Passage
The Belarussian border guards denied entry to four Polish members of the European Parliament among them to EP vice President Jacek Saryusz-Wolski. According to ... | Current Affairs |
Jean Michel Jarre Visits Gdansk
Jean Michel Jarre visited Gdansk in recently as a prelude to a concert planned for later this month. At noon on the 4th of August, the star met Lech Walesa nea... | Art and Culture |
Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland
Poland were crowned World Speedway Champions after storming to a home victory in Wroclaw.
The Poles won with 62 points ahead of Sweden who were second on 34 a... | Comment |
Suspects Released in Mugging Case
Warsaw police detained two persons who might have been involved in Sunday's attack on Russian diplomats' children, but they were released Tuesday afternoon when... | Current Affairs |
The Best for your Buses
By the end of 2006, over 300 polish bus drivers will be behind the wheel in Britain. To staff its expansion into England, the Scottish bus company Stagecoach, ... | Business |
Wicker Working Wonders
In southern Poland, a small rural town is building on historic tradition to fuel their economy in the 21st century. But what exactly are they building and what... | Business |
Double Your Vote!
The upcoming elections aren't offering poles more of the same. Or are they? Identical twin brothers, Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, are running for the Presiden... | Current Affairs |
Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence
Recently, 15 Polish Youths shouting anti-Russian slogans attacked and beat upon three Russian teens in a Warsaw park. The three Youths were the children of Rus... | Current Affairs |
Poland Out of the Oil Loop???
Germany's BASF and the Russian firm Gazprom are in the advanced stages of planning an oil pipeline that would connect the two nations by way of the Baltic Sea. ... | Current Affairs |
Unemployment Down .3 Percent
Unemployment in Poland has dropped to 18 per cent from 18.3 in May. Still, according to the figures released by the General Statistical office, 2 million 800 th... | Business |
US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal
The United States has accepted Poland's plans to pull most of its 1,700 troops from Iraq at the beginning of next year, Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski ... | Current Affairs |
Poles In The Running For UEFA 2012
UEFA have received five bids to host the European soccer championship in 2012, European soccer's governing body announced in a statement on Friday.
They comp... | Comment |
Polanski Wins Libel Case
Roman Polanski won his libel case against Vanity Fair on Friday, ending a week-long trial in which he gave video evidence from Paris to avoid extradition to Ame... | Comment |
60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.
Convened to define the future of defeated Germany and the postwar order in Europe, the conference in fact marked the beginning of the Cold War. It established t... | History |
Danziger Goldwasser: Good to be Golden!
Danziger Goldwasser (English translation: Gold water from Danzig) is the registered tradename of a strong (38%) root and herbal liqueur that has been produced s... | History |
A Price To Pay
Polish and American defence ministers met in Washington this week to discuss the details of US military aid.
The promised 100 million US dollars will be use... | Current Affairs |
Polanski In The Dock
Roman Polanski's personal life was put under the spotlight on Monday at the start of a libel trial in which the director testified via video link from Paris to ... | Comment |
Poles Support EU Enlargement
Poles, just like the nationals of other new EU member states, are more open towards further enlargement of the bloc than the citizens of old member states.
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Poles Killed In London Blasts
The identity has been confirmed of another Polish woman killed in the recent terrorist attacks in London.
29-year-old Karolina Gluck was on one of the train... | Current Affairs |
Gunter Grass Illuminates Historic Gdansk!
Gunter Grass, the Nobel laureate author of ‘The Tin Drum,’ has often traveled to his hometown of Gdansk, to find inspiration for his art. Having experienced li... | Art and Culture |
25 Years Of Solidarity!
This July, the city of Gdansk will be celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity movement in Gdansk. In 1980, the Soviet-backed Polish government mor... | City Focus |
Polish Triumph At Film Festival
The Polish film 'Nikifor' stole the show at the 40th Karlovy Vary Film Festival this week in the Czech Republic.
The film tells the 'true life tale' of a cur... | Art and Culture |
Exorcists Meet On The Bright Mountain
Exorcists from all over the world have convened in the Jasna Gora shrine in the central Polish city of Czestochowa. The meeting is closed to the media, and no d... | Comment |
Naughty Nurse Lures Tourists
Joining the seductive "plumber", an alluring "nurse" on Tuesday debuted in Poland's tongue-in-cheek tourism campaign launched last month in a humorous response ... | Comment |
Poles Missing In London
Eighteen Poles are still missing Monday after last week's bomb attack on London, Poland's Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld confirmed Monday.
Speaking to... | Comment |
Poles Take Part In Victory Parade... At Last
Almost three hundred Polish veterans took part in a grand victory parade in London yesterday to mark the 60th anniversary of the end of the Second World War.
... | Current Affairs |
Extradition Row Runs On
Israel has refused for a second time to extradite to Poland a Jewish man accused of crimes against German prisoners just after the end of World War II, prosecut... | Current Affairs |
Poles Flock To The Cloth
Poles already make up a quarter of Europe's Roman Catholic clergy and interest in vocation for the priesthood is on the rise after the death of compatriot Pope ... | Current Affairs |
Former PM Edges Into Lead
Former prime minister Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz has become the new favourite in the Polish presidential election, according to a poll by GFK published in Rzeczpos... | Current Affairs |
Polish War Efforts Revealed
Polish foreign minister Adam Rotfeld considers the report on Poland’s contribution to the Allied victory in World War Two compiled by the joint Polish-British c... | History |
Vodka Giant To Leave Polish Hands
The Polish government has agreed to sell its leading distillery, Polmos Bialystok, the producer of the Zubrowka (Bison Grass) vodka brand, to US spirits distrib... | Business |
Ian Holm To Play Pope John Paul II
Ian Holm will play Pope John Paul II in the upcoming CBS biopic about the late pontiff, reports Variety. The four-hour miniseries is on track for a debut as ear... | Art and Culture |
Pope Coins A Runaway Hit
Poles lined up Wednesday to buy collectors' coins with the image of the late Pope John Paul II, issued by the central bank to honor Poland's most famous son.
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Austrian In Choppy Water Over Polish Remark
The Vienna city council on Wednesday lifted the immunity of a politician who suggested that Nazi gas chambers were found in Poland, but not anywhere else in the... | Current Affairs |
Poles Are Anti Ads
Around 80% of Poles do not approve of advertising while three –quarters define it as boring and irritating. According to the recent poll conducted by the CBOS c... | Comment |
Ukrainian Airline In The Running
According to Puls Biznesu information, the most likely candidate to service internal flights in Poland is a Ukrainian airline.
"A few foreign enterprises, f... | Business |
Saucy Plumber Seduces French
Poland could have taken offence when French critics of the proposed European constitution, fearing a flood of migrant workers from eastern Europe, made the "Pol... | Comment |
Sainthood Path Officially Launched
Pope John Paul, considered a saint by many Roman Catholics even before he died in April, was formally launched on the road towards sainthood on Tuesday.
A si... | Current Affairs |
Mayor Convicted Of Slander
Lech Kaczynski, the mayor of Warsaw and a leading presidential candidate, was convicted Friday of slander - a ruling that could force his resignation.
The c... | Current Affairs |
Fresh Start For Poles And Ukrainians
‘The official opening ceremony of the cemetery in Lviv, today’s Ukraine, of young Polish freedom fighters who lost their lives in the Polish-Ukrainian war of 19... | Current Affairs |
Ryanair Launches New Routes To Poland
Ryanair Holdings PLC, the Irish based budget airline, has launched new routes to Grenoble in France, Lodz and Poznan in Poland aswell as Kaunas in Lithuania, wh... | Business |
Hope For Poorest Regions
Poland could benefit to the tune of EUR 900 (zl.3,635) million from a new EU fund to help areas suffering most from unemployment.
The fund was actually propo... | Current Affairs |
Call For Reconciliation
A beatification mass of three Polish priests was held in Warsaw this morning. An important element of the ceremony was a joint prayer for the reconciliation bet... | Current Affairs |
Saddam Looks To Poland
Defence lawyers for Saddam Hussein say the deposed Iraqi dictator wants his case to be tried in Sweden or Poland instead of Iraq where he faces the death penalt... | Current Affairs |
Landmark Case Adjourned
The European Court of Human Rights has adjourned the case of Broniowski v. Poland pending the outcome of friendly settlement negotiations on the question of jus... | Current Affairs |
Tragic Turn To Memorial Day
Commemorations of the 65th anniversary of the first transport of prisoners to the Auschwitz concentration camp took a sad turn when one of the passengers, an 85... | Current Affairs |
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