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Polish President 'Statesman of 2005'

Nov.30.2005

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...

Warsaw Pact A Pandora's Box

Nov.28.2005

Politicians representing opposition groups have called the defense minister’s decision on declassifying documents of the defunct Warsaw Pact a “media operation”...

Poland May Yet Host Cup

Oct.08.2005

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...

Kaczynski Wins Presidency

Oct.24.2005

Conservative Lech Kaczynski won Poland's presidential run-off on Sunday on a platform combining traditionalist Catholic values with promises to curb corruption ...

Ryanair Revs Up for Poland

Oct.21.2005

Ryanair, Europe’s No. 1 low fares airline announced yesterday that with just 10 days to go to the launch of five more Polish destinations, Poland is set for a l...

Premiere Of Papal Film

Oct.20.2005

He may never have seen Oscar-winner Jon Voight as a male prostitute in "Midnight Cowboy," but Pope Benedict XVI will be among the first to see him portray the l...

More Mischief On Campaign Trail

Oct.18.2005

Opponents of the liberal candidate for the presidency, Donald Tusk, have attempted to find materials concerning his parents in German archives. One such per...

Bring back the Soviets?

Oct.10.2005

Having cast their ballots, the two big guns in this years presidential election, Donald Tusk and Lech Kaczynski, seem destined for a runoff election later this ...

Return Of The Moonstealers

Oct.7.2005

Poland's presidential race is still wide open but conservative contender Lech Kaczynski already has something to celebrate -- a movie he starred in as a child w...

Transition Poles

Oct.6.2005

Nearly a quarter of Poles are keen to go abroad in search of employment, a study published Wednesday reveals. The 'Social Diagnosis 2005' study revealed 22....

Environment Remains Stumbling Block

Oct.4.2005

Poland could miss out on billions of euros in aid because the European Commission has doubts if the country's newly amended environment protection law meets EU ...

Talks Off To A Rocky Start

Sept.30.2005

Polish centre-right parties clashed on Thursday at their first meeting to form a ruling coalition after winning Sunday's election, with signs a new government c...

Victory For The Right

Spet.26.2005

Poland's centre-right parties crushed the ruling left in parliamentary elections, early results showed on Monday, but faced tough coalition talks on splits over...

Tusk Edges Away In Election Race

Sept.22.2005

Support for Donald Tusk increased dramatically this month in Poland, according to a poll by TNS OBOP. 49 per cent of respondents would vote for the Civic Platfo...

Sex Ed Lost in Shuffle

Sept.22.2005

Four years ago, Poland's left leaning politicians promised mandatory sexual education in schools. With a landslide victory, it seemed they had a mandate for the...

Smugglers Of Space Dust

Sept.12.2005

An unusual attempt at smuggling was uncovered at the Polish-Ukrainian boarder crossing in Dorohusk. The truck driver claimed that he had a load of quartz, yet t...

Putin-Schroeder Pact!

Sept.09.2005

A good deal of the misery in Poland's past can be traced to its location between Germany and Russia. These days, people talk an awful lot about Globalization an...

Pole Is Oldest European at 118

Sept.9.2005

118 year old Jozef Piotrowski is the oldest Pole and the oldest European. Born in 1887, he is still in fairly good form, though he cannot walk. He has never smo...

Polish President Speaks Up!

Sep.06.2005

Plans for a trans-Baltic oil pipeline from russia to Germany have been in the works for quite a while. Since the pipeline would create an pathway that excluded ...

Pope Was Key To Victory

Sept.5.2005

Lech Walesa, the shipyard electrician who helped topple Poland's communist regime by founding the Solidarity movement in 1980, credited the late Pope John Paul ...

Polish Policy In the Lead!

Aug.28.2005

New light is being shed on the Polish push for reform in Belarus. Despite stinging criticism from many Poles (especially on the right) Transitions Online, has ...

Poland Blanks Belarusian Choice

Aug.29.2005

Poland will not recognise newly elected leaders of a Polish ethnic organisation in Belarus because they were installed after pressure from President Alexander L...

Dziwisz Steps Into Mentor's Shoes

Aug.29.2005

Pope John Paul II’s longtime aide, who worked with the pontiff for 40 years and cradled him in the "popemobile" after a 1981 assassination attempt, was installe...

37th International Festival of Highlanders’ Folklore

Aug.22.2005

The 37th International festival of Highlanders’ Folklore is underway in the mountain resort of Zakopane in the Polish Tatras. It is the largest event of this...

Early unveiling for Depeche Mode!

Aug.19.2005

The recording industry, that mom and pop enterprise with a heart of gold, has just made a big arrest in Poland. Somewhere in between exploiting the sex appeal ...

Ukraine and Poland Jack Up Bid

Aug.19.2005

Ukraine and Poland agreed on Thursday to press on with a joint bid to stage the 2012 European championship and pledged high-level support in the two east Europe...

In Defense of Polish Migrants

Aug.14.2002

After having been the target of political manipulation and fear mongering for as long as they have existed, Polish Migrant workers are finally getting some help...

Polish To Be Top Gun

Aug.18.2005

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...

Poles Boot To Victory

Aug.19.2005

Substitute Grzegorz Rasiak scored twice Wednesday to lead Poland to a 3-2 win over Israel to win the Valery Lobanovsky exhibition tournament. Poland, which b...

Amber Heist At Border

Aug.17.2005

An attempted customs deception of half a million euros has been prevented by Polish officers on the Polish-Russian checkpoint at Gronowo. A Russian citizen t...

Polish Ultimate Champs

Aug.15.2005

At the recent "Poznan Unleashed" Ultimate tournament, held in Poznan, Poland, two Polish ultimate frisbee teams faced one another in a tournament-style match. ...

Walesa Voices Desire for a New Belarus!

Aug.14.2005

Solidarity's iconic figure-head, Lech Walesa, has recently made public his desire for a democratized Belarus. Specifically, Walesa mentioned that a 'revolution...

This Just In: Polish Radio in Belarus!

Aug.10.2005

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...

Polish Parlimentarians Denied Passage

Aug.08.2005

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 ...

Solidarity In The Big Apple

Aug.9.2005

A special exhibition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity will be placed in Union Square – one of the busiest squares in NYC. It will b...

Glorious Speedway Victory for Poland

Aug.06.2002

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...

Suspects Released in Mugging Case

Aug.04.2002

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...

The Best for your Buses

July.30.2005

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, ...

Wicker Working Wonders

Aug.02.2005

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...

Double Your Vote!

June.16.2005

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...

Putin Condems anti-Russian Violence

Aug.01.2005

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...

Poland Tops Investment List

July.29.2005

According to Ernst & Young's (E&Y) European Attractiveness Survey, Poland holds the fourth place in the world and the first in Europe with respect to attractive...

A John Paul II Holiday?

July.28.2005

Lawmakers voted overwhelmingly Wednesday to support a measure that will establish a national day to honour the late Pope John Paul II. The lower house, or S...

Poland Out of the Oil Loop???

July.22.2005

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. ...

Unemployment Down .3 Percent

July.25.2005

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...

US Accepts Polish Iraq Withdrawal

July.25.2005

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 ...

Polanski Wins Libel Case

July.22.2005

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...

60 Years Ago, Potsdam Reshaped Europe.

Jul.20.2005

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...

A Price To Pay

July.20.2005

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...

Poles Support EU Enlargement

July.19.2005

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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