The British prime minister arrives in Warsaw today. One of the purposes of his visit is to convince Donald Tusk to support Tony Blair for the president of the EU Council. Donald Tusk will have a working breakfast with Gordon Brown today. It is the British head of government's first visit to
US Assistant Secretary of State Daniel Fried arrives in Warsaw today. His talks with Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski can have important significance for the future of the US anti-missile defence in Poland, Gazeta has learned. Mr Fried will represent Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice at the
Sergey Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, arrives in Warsaw a week from today. 'A firm position towards Russia doesn't have to mean isolation', Prime Minister Donald Tusk said yesterday. Warsaw is set to become the EU's diplomatic capital on 11 September, as Poland will be the first EU member
At 10 a.m. today the trial of seven soldiers accused of shelling the Afghani village of Nangar Khel is to begin before the District Military Court in Warsaw. 'It's a unique trial, not only in Poland but also in Europe or even in the world. The last such case to have found its way to court was
As the tenth EU member state, Poland will recognise Kosovo's independence today. But whether this means being late or early doesn't really matter. It had been clear for months that the Albanian-dominated province would one day break away from Serbia. But when it finally happened, on 17 February
between the demonstrations in Madrid and Warsaw suggest that the distinction between Old and New Europe remains valid, though not in the way that Rumsfeld meant.Of course, it would be inaccurate to oppose a thriving Poland to a collapsing Spain. Given the overall European crisis, even Poland's economy is
Na terenie obozu Madonna miała pojawić się ok. 14.00 - podały TVN24, RMF FM i PAP."I'm headed to Auchwitz today.. I could not go to Poland and not find my way there.. Tonight I'll be in Warsaw" - napisał na Twitterze ok. 10.30 Guy Oseary, menadżer piosenkarki.Przed godziną 13. w Balicach
Warsaw Uprising Museum, president Lech Kaczyński decorated participants of the bid for independence from sixty five years ago. Many of the decorations were awarded posthumously, e.g. to poet Tadeusz Gajcy, Gen Antoni 'Monter' Chruściel or actor Zdzisław Maklakiewicz. 'The 1944 uprising is a myth today
whose rights are not being respected,' he wrote. The 14th Dalai Lama meets the speakers of Sejm and Senate today. He will also take part in a special session of parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee with the participation of deputies, senators, and invited guests. He will also meet Warsaw president
collapse'.The cause of all this confusion is Adam Mielczarek, a 32-year-old from Warsaw. For nine years now, against the law, he has refused to join any open pension fund. He has also gone to the courts, asking whether the government can force citizens to save in the OFEs against their will.Today's session
Prime minister Vladimir Putin will likely visit Poland on 1 September. Moscow wants to be consulting Warsaw just like it consults Europe's major capitals. There has long been no such move in Polish-Russian relations, even though no breakthrough has been achieved in the Katyn debate and the
the Polish armed forces wouldn't be better equipped and more efficient today if back in 2003, before agreeing for Poland to join the Iraqi coalition, Prime Minister Leszek Miller and President Aleksander Kwaśniewski had demanded something in return? Warsaw shouldn't make the same mistake again.
the Easter Partnership framework, the EU is to support the modernisation and democratisation of Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and conditionally, Belarus. Today the programme could be use to aid Georgia's reconstruction effort. These arrangements mean, Gazeta's sources believe, that
celebrations and talked to many famous artists, the date of 1 September 1939 told them nothing. Today this has been changing,' said the culture minister. The celebrations will culminate on 27 September with a major concert at the Teatr Wielki in Warsaw. Earlier, on 17 September in Warsaw, Klaus Schulze, one
Together with united Europe's other nation states, Poland had decided to reform the EU through the Lisbon Treaty. We were gearing up to celebrate its ratification by Poland during the Schuman Parade on 10 May in Warsaw. We were hoping to send Europe a clear message: that we are finally 'for
a Chinese correspondent in the room?' No one came forward. 'You have a Chinese face,' he said to a man in the audience. 'I'm South Korean,' the man responded. In the afternoon the Dalai Lama spoke to an audience of 5,000 at the Torwar sports/concert hall in Warsaw. He leaves Poland today. Warsaw
In this Europe, the important moves are now sometimes made in Stockholm or Warsaw, not only in Berlin, Paris, or London. And, with major foreign-policy issues on Europe's doorstep - whether in Egypt, Belarus, or now Syria - useful European initiatives are to be welcomed, regardless of where they
one to talk to', said a German diplomat. The Germans didn't want to make any decisions before the elections, because, by agreeing to commemorate Solidarity, they'd play into the hand of the Law and Justice (PiS), hardly Berlin's darling. Today, Polish and German diplomats believe the case could be
"', regrets Mr Ołdakowski.But even without the missing reel, Tadeusz Rowiński's film presents immense historical value. It has already been digitalised so that it can be presented to the public in modern-day formats. It will be shown for the first time today on a screen next to the Warsaw Uprising Museum
's relations with Tbilisi that Warsaw recognises Kosovo's independence a week or even two later? But if this is to improve the quality of the cohabitation between the President and the Prime Minister, then why not. There will be more pretexts such as this one to show that the President matters. The nearest
the Europe it wants. 'Europe needs new initiatives, Europe needs fresh air,' leader Jarosław Kaczyński stressed Saturday, presenting his party as that of 'conservatives who want reforms.' Besides Mr Kaczyński, the speakers at a rally at Warsaw's Palladium cinema included ex-Czech prime minister
' consumer debt. According to the report, the value of household debt arrears has been growing at a rapid pace. The value of unpaid bills two and more months past due date grew from less than PLN 5 billion in August 2007 to PLN 6.7 billion today, a rise of PLN 1.8 billion in just three quarters. The
foreign minister Bernard Kouchner by his Polish counterpart, Radosław Sikorski. The two politicians met privately on Sunday at Mr Sikorski's country manor in Chobielin near Bydgoszcz in northern Poland, and then officially on Monday in Ożarów near Warsaw at an annual conference of Polish ambassadors
haemorrhages, chiefly haemarthroses. Medications are administered on a short-term basis, in case of haemorrhage, which often leads to disability. The first hearing in the haemophiliacs' case against Poland will take place in Warsaw today. 'I represent 215 persons who had contracted hepatitis C through blood
with the remnants discovered in the vaults of the Birth of the Holiest Mother of God cathedral were, for instance, a cigarette pack from Warsaw's Progress tobacco factory and fragments of a pre-1939 Polish passport. Sovetskaya Belorussiya invalidates the prosecutor office's version, without settling
really has. Even Dmitri Babich, a Moscow expert, tells Gazeta, 'Washington clearly overestimates our pull in Iran. In reality it's not so great.' Three options are being seriously considered in Washington today: 1. Washington and Moscow end Iran's nuclear ambitions, the US shelves the missile defence
The man who's brought Europe to a halt arrived in Warsaw yesterday. He carried out in Ireland a victorious referendum campaign against the Lisbon Treaty. Now he wants to do the same in the rest of the EU. Europe heard about Declan Ganley, a 40-year-old Irish businessman with financial connections
Poland, including texts from Zbigniew Brzezinski, Milton Friedman, Samuel Huntington, and Ayn Rand. Audio exhibit from Radio Free Europe Highlights from the later years of Radio Free Europe in Poland, on loop in the gallery space. In 2009, the U.S. Embassy in Warsaw and U.S. Consulate in Krakow
Media and Communication Multimedia components and exhibitions available until 21:00 March 20 Friday 11:00 DIGITAL DEMOCRACY: THE OBAMA CAMPAIGN AND BEYOND How are Americans using new media technologies for social activism today? Moderator
is to present at the EU summit in Brussels next month will be called. Poland wants to pull the EU more deeply into ever closer cooperation with its eastern neighbours - Ukraine, Moldova, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Georgia, and, conditionally, Belarus, today ruled by an authoritarian regime. The document
former Soviet-bloc countries warn in an open letter to the US president that the region's close alliance with America, until now treated as axiomatic, is undergoing its most severe test ever today. 'As the new Obama Administration sets its foreign-policy priorities,' we read in the letter, 'our region
, spoke in a similar tone. 'It would be good if Radosław Sikorski became the Nato secretary general. From today's point of view, the election of a personage from Poland, Lithuania's strategic partner, would be a positive development. Poles have a superb historical memory and an excellent understanding
ministers for review. The previous draft was unveiled by Justice Minister Zbigniew Ćwiąkalski during a press conference two weeks ago. The provision on the use of 'direct coercive measures' would legalise the compulsory administration of pharmaceuticals not only, as is the case today, to persons unable
The twentieth anniversary of the Polish democracy is nearing. On this occasion, Gazeta compares Poles' sentiment at end-1989 and today and finds sweeping changes - for the better! We have used polls from CBOS, which always in December asks respondents about the passing year: whether they felt
weak, to treat its citizens equally. For honesty to prevail, not cynicism or villainy', president Lech Kaczyński declared at the Royal Castle in Warsaw yesterday. He said that the Third of May Constitution was a culmination of efforts aimed at reforming a state that was ruled by oligarchs and
military threat from Russia, most of the world's active tactical or sub-strategic nuclear weapons today seem to be deployed just east of Poland's borders, in speculative preparation for conflict in Europe. The cataclysmic potential of such a conflict makes it essential to limit and eventually eliminate
a Minsk street two years ago - as it soon turned out, for five and half years in a camp. He is in jail because he led demonstrators towards the prison where his former students were doing time for protesting against the rigged presidential elections. And I saw her when she came to Warsaw a
The coalition will survive, but Treasury minister Aleksander Grad's bold privatisation agenda may collapse before it has even got off the ground. It will be buried jointly by the PO and PSL leaders. Mr Grad's privatisation plan was to be discussed by the cabinet today. But it won't be. 'The
Gazeta talks to Paweł Świeboda, head of DemosEuropa - Centre for European Strategy, a Warsaw-based think-tank Tomasz Bielecki: What should Jerzy Buzek do in order to achieve a strong position as president of the European Parliament? Paweł Świeboda: Mr Buzek will need a lot of political
friar, on jewish.org.pl. Who is Tuvia Bielski? He was born in 1906 in a small village near Nowogrodek (today Navahrudak, Belarus) as the son of a Jewish miller. He had a Polish passport, served briefly in the Polish army, spoke Polish and Yiddish. He was probably a smuggler, the Soviet border was
. As far as the fifth priority - modernisation of the Polish diplomacy - is concerned, it's a Herculean task. After years of neglect and budget cuts, the middle-aged, most promising generation of diplomatic personnel is gone. Instead, Poland has ambassadors today, even in important European countries
become the alliance's head. To make things clear, let me say that I think it would be great if the post ended up occupied by any of the Polish candidates. I consider Radek Sikorski to be the most talented Polish politician on the international scene today. Aleksander Kwaśniewski is a co-author of the
laughing, talking those minutes before the train leaves. You kiss my hand, like something from an old movie. I love this gesture and in the moment, you. Today, reading Polish poets, I remember arriving that warm sunny day, you, Warsaw -- the ruins, the rebuilding glimpses of grandeur. I have
easily available in the British Isles. 'We have no slightest doubt that we're seeing more returns than before. Both the experts and the emigrants themselves are talking about it', Joanna Tyrowicz, economist at Warsaw University told Gazeta. Experts stress that no precise data on Poles' migration
Lavrov's visit to Warsaw is the first trip of a major Russian politician to an EU country following the Russia-Georgia war. It hung by the thread - in mid-August signals came from the Russian Foreign Ministry it might be cancelled to punish Poland for her support for Georgia. But Russia changed its
'We want the summit to firmly condemn Russia's actions against Georgia as well as offering support for Georgia's reconstruction effort', presidential and Foreign Ministry officials say unanimously. The president and the prime minister will meet in Warsaw today to align their positions for the
clothes - a pack of cigarettes from the Warsaw-based factory Progress. 'We've discovered 20-30 bodies. There can be more deeper down,' says father Sarhey Gramyka, the parish priest. Father Gramyka explains that because of the smell, the bones have been covered with earth again. Gazeta has learned
the house of the famous doctor G. from Warsaw's Interior Ministry Hospital, they won't find a basement full of pork. But they will find Rosenthal dinnerware. And fountain pens, which Mr Kochanowski says are okay to give.And that means prison. Let's remember that less than a year ago, Mariusz Kamiński
) Foundation in Warsaw. The Foundation has carried out research to see how the Visegrad Group countries' visa policies have changed following their entrance to the Schengen zone. Poland has been in the zone since end-2007. Poles can travel without passport controls virtually throughout Europe. In return
today to discuss their progress. But, according to Mr Tusk's close aide, as of late yesterday the meeting still hadn't been confirmed. During the next three days Mr Tusk and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski are to talk to vice-president Dick Cheney and perhaps even President George W. Bush himself
The Polish government is building a coalition of EU countries to drive away the spectre of protectionism that is haunting Europe again. The test day - this Sunday in Brussels. Can we repeat the success from the climate policy dispute? The EU is in a dangerously straddled position today. Some
Polish Families (LPR) and the populist Self-Defence - overthrew the PiS-loyal management board of Andrzej Urbański and seized control of the company. What at first seemed a curious episode, today appears to be a stable construction. The prevailing opinion in the corridors of the sprawling complex at
by no means Polish'. The PO's electoral victory was due to media bias: 'Absolutely fractional issues were presented as extremely grave ones and as a result, unfortunately, we have the cabinet today that we have'. One example of an 'absolutely fractional issue' is the case of Marek Surmacz, who, as
S's negative electorate has been growing. Before the 2007 general elections, 34 percent of respondents (a CBOS poll) said they would not vote for the PiS in any case, today (the Gazeta poll) the proportion risen to 48 percent. The PiS is rejected by, for instance, 690 percent of big city residents and 60
Lady of Ludźmierz have already applied, and those from Jasna Góra and Licheń are preparing to do so. 'According to tradition, relics of beatified and canonised persons are sent to places throughout the world. These are usually bone fragments', confirmed Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz, the Warsaw
', says Bishop Stefanek, today the bishop of Łomża. Embittered, the tutors asked two monks for help. Bishop Stefanek's superior, Archbishop Marian Przykucki, received them. 'He told us he was sorry about the matter and would help to solve it', one of the monks recalls. A Victim: Half of My Soul Died
agrees, the request then goes to the District Court in Warsaw. Only the judge reviewing it has no means to determine whether it is justified. 'No investigation is pending on the case, so there is no evidence to review', said Judge Rajmund Chajneta, head of the 8th Criminal Department, District Court
't intend to cede my place to a woman only because she is a woman,' a member of the PO's decision-making body tells Gazeta. Outside Warsaw, the sentiment is the same. 'We can't use social engineering and break strong candidates' careers only because they're men,' says Tadeusz Aziewicz, deputy head of
gender parity in the hope that women wouldn't be fighting for power in such shameful ways as men do,' comments social psychologist Janusz Czapiński. Women account for 20 percent of Sejm members today and for just 8 percent of Senate members. Interestingly, support for parity is higher among
talks to the issue of the Polish armed forces' modernisation. It believes the Polish demands are just a wild request programme, Gazeta's sources say. To make matters worse, Warsaw has been unable to logically justify its demands. 'The Poles have, for instance, demanded Patriot missiles to defend
and very agitated. 'We can't come. PM Tymoshenko is due here on Saturday. We are to talk about the Euro. We've been told today, there's a full-scale mobilisation in the city'. On Monday, Ms Tymoshenko spoke in Warsaw to Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Sports Minister Mirosław Drzewiecki on how to
became a European democracy, a member of the euroatlantic security system, a country of good relations with all of its neighbours. For the first time in its history.Poland also became a country that was respected by others and held up as a model to follow. Today, two years after Jarosław Kaczyński and
states. Dieter Helm, professor at Oxford, expert on European energy policy, which is Poland's specialty in the EU. Former adviser to the Tony Blair administration. Paul Hofheinz, US citizen, since 1985 based in Europe, former reporter for the Wall Street Journal. Today he is a top expert on
with two countries today, not just one', stressed Mr Sikorski, referring to Turkey. According to government sources, the instructions were for the president to stall for time so that Mr Rasmussen's candidature would not be agreed upon on the first day. Mr Kaczyński was not to adopt any clear stance
, especially when - like the Polish government - you have the sympathy of the Commission and Parliament. The key proposal concerns the definition of a crisis situation that triggers off energy solidarity mechanisms. Today, one of the directives says that the EU has to react if 'significant supply disruptions
sole addressee? Mr Ochmann: 'The fact that Mr Lavrov and Ms Rice publish important articles in a Polish newspaper is a token of the evolution Poland has undergone. Warsaw is regarded by the US and Russia today as an important international player. If it were otherwise, such high-ranking figures wouldn
the family model. In the past, when working abroad was illegal and the future in Poland uncertain, such emigration made sense. That's why the fathers, uncles and older brothers were going. Young people today want to do the same.A research conducted in the Podlasie region in north-eastern Poland, where
Komorowski said an amended referendum bill could be ready for voting as early as today. If parliament fails to ratify the treaty - it will be up for the people to decide. 'I hope the PiS understands that because of its obstinacy we're becoming the EU's disgrace', Mr Komorowski warned. Jarosław Kaczyński
dramatic twists and turns of Polish culture. 'It seldom happens', wrote the same Jan Kott in his review of Ugo Betti's Corruption in the Palace of Justice , 'for an actor arriving to Warsaw from the provinces to win such an unanimous recognition from his first performance. Mr Holoubek won everyone over
any intelligence agency'. Mr Zemke has summoned General Reszka and Jan Olszewski, the man in charge of the committee vetting the personnel of the former Military Information Agency (WSI), the SKW's predecessor, for today's meeting of the parliamentary committee. The illegal copying of the SKW
obtain incriminating information against political opponents. During the era of Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro, wiretapping gained a new application - moulding the public opinion.1. Public prosecutor Jerzy Engelking's famous presentation from the wire taps and surveillance cameras installed in Warsaw
". Obok Morrisseya zagrają też David Byrne, Primal Scream, Lamb. Byrne, lider kultowej już grupy Talking Heads, wystąpi w Stodole 13 lipca i będzie promował swój najnowszy, nagrany we współpracy z Brianem Eno album "Everything That Happens Will Happen Today". Fani szykują się też na występ Lamb
Class), PO Box 36, 02-783 Warsaw 59, adding 'Solidarity with Donetsk' on the envelope.Polish Humanitarian Action has pledged to start a collection of money for the Donetsk families any day now.The Union of Ukrainians in Poland has also pledged to help. 'We can provide translators, assist in organising
honour, as always) that he had stolen the Polish kings' crowns from the city of Vladimir. At the moment when Tukhachevsky's armies were advancing to the suburbs of Warsaw, the Polish public lent credence to claims that there was a secret telephone hotline between the Belvedere and the Soviet headquarters
blue or pink stamp on their forehead." A Canadian couple wondered why "the whole world must know what is between the baby's legs."Jane McCreedie, the author of Making Girls and Boys: Inside the Science of Sex, criticizes these couples for going too far. In the world as it is today, she
years of his presidency. George W. Bush called Vladimir Putin his friend after first meeting him - and from there things only got worse. Barack Obama's Moscow visit ending today had fundamental significance for Poland. Obama emerged from it unscathed, but at least one thing should have us worried
just for alliance members, but for all countries that belong to the broader transatlantic security community. The interdependence of all states - large or small, weak or powerful, democratic or authoritarian - has become the organizing principle of today's international security system. But
wife is the president of the District Court in Katowice. According to Kaczmarek, Święczkowski mentioned the fact during the meeting with the Prime Minister as a guarantee that the court would play along), and Grzegorz Ocieczek, then ABW vice-head, who came from Warsaw on the day of the arrest and was