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

Only 1000 Miles To Go!
A group of 30 participants in the Peking to Paris car rally are crossing the Polish-German border in Kostrzyn on the Oder. They are travelling in four replicas ...

Comment

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. ...

Comment

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

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

Poles On Path To Sainthood
Pope Benedict XVI has moved another step away from beatification ceremonies, asking Cardinal Jozef Glemp of Warsaw to preside in Poland over the beatification o...

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

Vets On Wheels
A veterinary clinic on wheels has arrived in the city of Lodz, central Poland, offering free check-ups for dogs. The huge truck, which boasts three consultancy ...

Comment

Boost For Polish-Ukrainian Cup Bid
Ukraine's FFU has published an appeal to the media asking to support Ukraine’s and Poland’s joint bid to host Euro-2012 football finals. The Federation believe...

Current Affairs

Intelligence Ignored
A new offiicial report on Second World War Intelligence has spotlighted what Poles have been aware of for some sixty years now - namely that the British governm...

Current Affairs

Mystery Airline Set To Launch
It is likely that by the fall one will be able to fly directly between regional airports at a cost below zl.300 per flight. These are the foundations of a pr...

Current Affairs

Dziwisz Defends Decision
John Paul II's longtime private secretary defended on Wednesday his decision not to burn the pope's papers as the pontiff's will instructed, saying the pope had...

Current Affairs

Sharing A Shady Past
Polish and German institutes holding sensitive communist-era secret police archives have agreed to share historic documents which may shed light on some of the ...

Current Affairs

Stasi Agent Spied On Solidarity
An agent working for communist East Germany's feared Stasi secret police spied on Poland's communist-era Solidarity opposition during the 1980s, Polish Televisi...

Current Affairs

John Paul's Last Request
Pope John Paul II's longtime private secretary has revealed that he did not burn the late pontiff's notes as his will demanded, arguing that the papers containe...

Current Affairs

Report Released On 'Collaborator'
Investigators published a report Wednesday offering new details of allegations that a priest was an informer for Poland's communist government while he was clos...

Current Affairs

Film Crew Runs Into Russian Trouble
A Polish diplomat from the Moscow Embassy has gone to Ingushetia to investigate the circumstances relating to the detention of three Polish television journalis...

Current Affairs

Beatification Process Begins
The process of beatifying Pope John Paul II - the first step toward possible sainthood - has officially begun with an edict inviting testimony from witnesses ab...

Comment

Film Producer Freed
The Polish co-producer of the Oscar-winning film "Schindler's List" left prison Tuesday after an appeals court suspended his two-year term in a high-profile bri...

Current Affairs

Tribute To Our Feathered Friends
Poland celebrates Stork Day today. The arrival of these long-legged fellows each Spring is a cherished event in Poland. Storks are recurrent characters in Po...

Comment

Highland Robbers On The Run
Police have blocked roads in southern Poland after a audacious bank robbery in the southern city of Nowy Targ. The search is underway for three men who have sto...

Current Affairs

Greens Sue Government
Poland’s Greens have sued the State Treasury, demanding reparation for damages caused by the felling of seven old oaks in the Bialowieza Forest nature reserve, ...

Comment

Poland's President Regrets French 'Non'
Poland’s president Aleksander Kwasniewski has received the French No to the European Constitutional Treaty with regret. He admitted that this spells out serious...

Current Affairs

Chips Fall Over Corruption Scandal
Prime Minister Marek Belka has rejected the resignation of Interior Minister Ryszard Kalisz but fired his deputy over a series of corruption scandals involving ...

Current Affairs

General Launches Surprise Project
General Wojciech Jaruzelski, Poland's last communist-era leader, said Monday he wants to work with former foe Lech Walesa to set up a truth commission that woul...

Current Affairs

Polish Referee Arrested
Polish police said Sunday they have arrested a first-division soccer referee who allegedly took a $31,000 US bribe to help fix two matches. The referee was ...

Comment

Election Date Set
President Aleksander Kwasniewski has announced September 25 as the date for Poland's general election. House speaker Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz said after conferri...

Current Affairs

Poland Could Host Beatification
Pope Benedict XVI might be able to beatify John Paul II in a ceremony in Poland, the head of the Vatican's saint-making office says, a day after the pontiff gav...

Current Affairs

Path To Sainthood Opened
Pope Benedict XVI said Friday he had opened the process for the sainthood of Pope John Paul II, overriding the usual five-year waiting period following the deat...

Current Affairs

Poland Repays Cold War Debt
Poland repaid most of its communist-era debt to the United States on Thursday, handing Washington $868 million, a government official said. Deputy Finance ...

Current Affairs

Right-Wing Parties Lead Polls
The right-wing Law and Justice and the centrist Civic Platform are in the lead of a recent popularity poll conducted by the Rzeczpospolita daily. The poll s...

Current Affairs

President Rejects PM's resignation
Polish President Aleksander Kwasniewski refused the resignation of Prime Minister Marek Belka on Friday, a decision that should keep the unpopular governing par...

Current Affairs

Priest Denies Spying
A Polish priest accused of spying on the late Pope John Paul said he had taken money provided by a suspected secret service agent, but denied he had been a spy....

Current Affairs

Alleged Collaborator Revealed
A Polish priest at the Vatican was accused Wednesday of collaborating with the communist-era secret police during the 1980s, a time when Pope John Paul II was i...

Current Affairs

New Pope Learns Polish
Unofficial sources from the Vatican claim that pope Benedict XVI learns Polish pronounciation. The pontiff intends to say a few words to Polish pilgrims on ...

Comment

Polish Journalists Appeal To Russia
The Association of Polish Journalists has appealed to their Russian counterparts to respect historical truth. The association has sent a letter to the Russian ...

Current Affairs

Poles Seek To Honour John Paul
Poland's capital wants to honour Pope John Paul II by opening an institute focusing on his life and teachings, to be built on the site of his triumphal 1979 ret...

Current Affairs