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    May 13

    Poland is more important than ever, but news coverage in English doesn't give the full picture. With your support we can change that by creating a new service offering independent and informed reporting and analysis. Please join our crowdfunding campaign

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  2. 1 hour ago

    Polish oil refiner PKN Orlen expects gaining approval from the EU for its planned takeover of rival firm Lotos to be long and difficult

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    Will storks return to Britain after a 600 year absence? With a bit of help from a Polish population, they might! I'd love to see them breed successfully over the next few years.

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    The first peek at our new website! Thanks to your support, we're moving forward with plans to relaunch later this year. But we still need to secure our future. Join our crowdfunding campaign to help us report from Poland. There are only four days left!

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  5. 11 hours ago

    There is opposition within PO over continued alliance with SLD, reports . Some candidates are unhappy to be standing alongside leftists (including former communists). Others point to polling indicating a joint list would disadvantage PO

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  6. 11 hours ago

    Over 90% of Poles say that they segregate their rubbish, but only 69% think that their neighbours do

    Ponad 90% badanych Polaków deklaruje, że segreguje śmieci. Jednak niespełna 69% uważa, że robią to ich sąsiedzi. Badanie dla
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    12 hours ago

    Books on sale at the Polish post office: 'Soros: The World's Most Dangerous Man' and 'How I Stopped Being A Leftist' (featuring Juncker alongside Marx and Engels on the cover). This is typical of what post offices have become under the current government

    Wizyta w zawsze spoko: "Soros - Najniebezpiejszy Człowiek Świata", "Dlaczego Przestałem Być Lewakiem?", "Ewangelia św. Łukasza" & "Więzienia Stalinowskie w Polsce". Poza kadrem: bestseller "Jak…
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  8. 12 hours ago

    An interview with on his new book about Witold Pilecki, the Polish underground officer who deliberately had himself imprisoned at Auschwitz in order to gather intelligence and organise resistance in the camp

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  9. 22 hours ago

    We love stories like this, showing Poland beyond the usual international headlines. If you want to help us expand our service to provide broader, better news reporting from Poland, read more about our plans and support our crowdfunding campaign below

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  10. 22 hours ago

    A large crowd met at Katowice railway station to 'celebrate' the second anniversary of the escalator not working. They ate cake, drunk non-alcoholic champagne and sung 'Happy Birthday' at an event organised by a local NGO

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  11. Jul 7

    We go beneath the surface, to explain what's really happening in Poland. Join the 170 people who have backed our crowdfunding campaign to launch a new website offering news, insight and analysis from Poland. Read more about our plans and support us here:

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  12. Jul 7

    The Polish authorities have warned tourists to stop entering the border zone with Russia's Kaliningrad exclave to take selfies in front of border posts. 20 people have been caught illegally in the area so far this year, which can result in a 500 zloty fine

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  13. Jul 7

    It will take 6-8 months to clean the Polish Polish pipeline and storage system that were contaminated with tainted oil from Russia

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  14. Jul 7

    China's foreign minister is visiting Poland, Slovakia and Hungary to 'garner more support for the Belt and Road Initiative and to try to expand China’s influence amid worries the new EU leadership will adopt a more hostile stance towards Beijing'

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    Jul 7

    Political debate, state-media style. Public radio has a program called 'Confrontations of Ideas'. On today's episode, PiS MEP Zdzisław Krasnodębski interviewed PiS MEP Beata Szydło. It wasn't very confrontational.

    w , z premier Beata rozmawia prof. Zdzisław .
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  16. Jul 7

    The planned museum has provoked some controversy. You can read background here

    The Warsaw ghetto museum 'is shaping up to be one of the most contentious in Europe.' Its Israeli chief historian is accused by other Holocaust scholars of helping the Polish government 'offer a distorted view of the Holocaust and gloss over collaboration'
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  17. Jul 7

    Hollywood producer Charles B. Wessler has appealed for anyone with relevant artifacts relating to prewar or WW2 Poland to come forward and donate them to the new Ghetto Museum being established in Warsaw

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  18. Jul 7

    A letter from the bishop is being read in all Białystok churches today condemning the city's upcoming LGBT parade as a 'initiative alien to our soil' that 'we cannot allow' as it encourages 'discrimination, mockery of faith and the debauchery of children'

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  19. Jul 6

    Record numbers attended today's LGBT Equality Parade in Poznań, which was held under the honorary patronage of the city's mayor. Police estimate that 6,000 took part. A few dozen nationalists protested against the event

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  20. Jul 6

    Poland's Krzemionki prehistoric mine complex was today added to 's World Heritage List. Flint was first mined there almost 6,000 years ago but the mines were abandoned by around 1600 BC and only rediscovered by a Polish geologist in 1922

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