Warsaw
Jędrzej Wijas: Polish election candidate’s heavy metal campaign
The PhD graduate from the Polish academy of sciences, 34, is running as a candidate of the left-wing party SLD (democratic left alliance) in the Polish parliamentary elections on 9 October. In a music video ‘A Concrete Message’, he gnarls out his political goals to a backdrop of heavy metal types. Interview
Director Tomasz Baginski: ‘We Polish often lack the ability to distance ourselves from issues’
His mini-film depicted Poland’s six-month presidency of the EU as a passionate dance and cost around 130, 000 euros to make. Poland’s most famous animation producer is a 2002 Oscar nominee in the short animated film category; so why so much criticism?
Flying coffins and Polish president plane crash: in search of answers
Russia and Poland have announced they are taking control of the Polish president Lech Kaczyński’s plane crash under their control. The shared investigation is one of many rapprochement strategies between the two countries, But more than six months after the investigation of the Polish national tragedy began, will the Russians be as transparent as they promised?
warsaw, moscow, post-soviet states, lech kaczynski, russian federation, warsaw, security
Freeganism in Poland: 'horror' of taking food from bins
Freeganism, a way of life for a small percentage of the world’s population, is above all an extremely anti-consumerist attitude calling for restraint. It openly expresses opposition to corporations that only want to enrich themselves because today the sale of goods in their pure form is disappearing
warsaw, lifestyle, poverty, freeganism, yum nyam, ecology, poland
Ars Homo Erotica: 'bring the toilet to Warsaw national museum'
Before the Euro pride parade on 17 July, exhibition curator Pawel Leszkowicz talks lesbian art, punching viewers in faces and explains why art and the Polish capital's largest museum is a live nerve of democracies
warsaw, exposition, ars homo erotica, sexism, sex, censorship, homosexuality
Warsaw wannabe
Dare we call it the new Berlin? The Polish capital's showing off with its edgy art and theatre expos, amidst fancy glass towers which spring up like mushrooms in the otherwise socialist scope of the city. Euro 2012, which Poland co-hosts with the Ukraine, assures a further polishing-up of the international reputation of the eastern metropolis. Meanwhile there's only one neighbourhood to be on the other side of the city on the Vistula; the Amy-Winehouse-statued 'Praga' is an artist and party people hotspot. Five pan-European cafebabel.com journalists analyse 'WaWa' - as the locals affectionately call their city -in the antepenultimate city special edition of our monthly series
Pro-European Polish president: order no. Komorowski
The Polish people didn't vote emotionally on 4 July. Bronisław Komorowski won Poland's presidential elections with 52.6% of the vote across 95% of constituencies. His challenger Jarosław Kaczyński, twin brother of the late president Lech, trailed at 47.4%. The German, Italian and Polish press hail the politically mature result
warsaw, eu presidency, jaroslaw kaczynski, eurotopics, bronisław komorowski, euweek, european union
Polish elections: Jaroslaw Kaczynski, hamster candidate
A second Kaczynski mandate would be going back to the Middle Ages, warns Artur Kurasinski, owner of Polish new media agency Revolver Interactive. He brings politically incorrect 'hamsters' back to life on his 2005-launched website chomiks.com. The presidential elections take place on 20 June, after late incumbent Lech Kaczynski was killed in April
warsaw, jaroslaw kaczynski, artur kurasinski, animals, internet, youth, best of cafebabel.com
Volcano: travelling Vilnius to Paris by train
Once upon a time, in the space of six days, airline companies lost 1.7 millions euros - and they weren't alone. I don't know exactly how many million euros Iceland 'owes' to the world aviation sector. With little sleep and lots of beer, it certainly owes me two days of my life by train across 2, 000 km of Europe
warsaw, eucrisis on the ground, money, paris, berlin, iceland, accommodation
Goodbye, Lech Kaczynski
Between 10 and 18 April, Poland tragically lost and buried the body of president Lech Kaczynski in Kraków's Wawel Castle. 96 died in total in the plane crash in Smolensk in Russia, including the First Lady Maria and high-profile political personalities, as they were en route to pay their respects at the 70th anniversary of the infamous Katyn massacre. After being dubbed the 'second Katyn', the debate is now on who will take the mantle in presidential elections in June 2010, now that a leading eurosceptic and conservative figure is so suddenly gone
Music: (subversive) songs for the European city
Madrid's famous Gran Via boulevard celebrated its 100th anniversary on 7 April, with a local survey seeing 'Gran Via' by crooner Antonio Flores top a list of songs dedicated to the city. From monkeys in Berlin to Red Bull and Swedes in Barcelona via Stalin in Warsaw, a selection of offbeat videos suggested by the cafebabel network
Finding a missing Finnish hitchhiker, 20, in Schengen Europe
For young Europeans, travelling around the continent is as natural as nipping round to the pub around the corner for a pint. But is a Europe without borders as carefree in practice as it is in theory? Excerpts from an article by a Polish journalist which recount the story of Emil Petrov, who went missing during his European escapade
New Year reads
Jacek Dukaj, Toni Maguire, Nathalie Rouyer and Christian Semmelroth on our carousel of featured writers
warsaw, germany, culture, books, france, western eu, central and eastern europe
Immigration: the plight of Poles in France
Poland has been an official EU country since 1 May 2004. While Poles have the right to move freely around France, things get a lot more complicated when it comes to getting a job
warsaw, future of europe, strasbourg, men and women, communism, immigration, enlargement
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