Warsaw
Economic growth: the Warsaw I know
The Polish capital’s transformation can no longer be overlooked as Poland's economy continues to grow. One German student boards the time machine
warsaw, economic growth, economical crisis, economy, architecture, society, poland
Panic on Warsaw streets: media view of Polish independence day celebrations
A masked and angry crowd, rockets, bloodstained faces and burning cars. This was no war or terrorist attack but mere independence day celebrations - as seen by the Polish media
Post elections: 'And that is what Poland is'
Let's judge this quote from 'The Wedding', a Polish drama written by Stanisław Wyspiański in 1901, from the run-up to the parliamentary elections on 9 October. 'Poland is' - the world's only transsexual in parliament or a parliament in which the third major force is a party calling for the legalisation of soft drugs and prohibiting the presence of clergy during national ceremonies. Young Polish politicians looked like Angelina Jolie in Lodz or released viral campaign teasers by screaming out their pledges with the help of heavy metal bands. However the same ovations were not received for the official video promoting Poland's six-month presidency of the EU (think animated tango in 3D), even if it was created by one of the country's top directors. 'That’s not Poland' - so what is Poland then?
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Poland, Lithuania, Romania: inside Europe's Guantanamo Bays
A white horse struggles to drag itself along after abandoning the exhausted body of Vincent Gallo through the snow. The animal is soiled with human blood. Such is the breathtaking epilogue of Essential Killing, the latest feature length film from Jerzy Skolimowski, where the American actor portrays a Taliban deported to a secret CIA base hidden in a forest in Mazovie, Poland. In the screenplay by the Polish writer, the prisoner still has the possibility to escape. Terrorist suspects who land in total secrecy in the airport of Szymany in Poland do not have such luck. An investigation ensues.
warsaw, cia flights, abuses, guantánamo, lech kaczynski, romania, lithuania
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, lech kaczynski, warsaw, post-soviet states, russian federation, security
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, sexism, sex, censorship, homosexuality, sexuality, exposition
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
Mandatory chemical castration for paedophiles in Poland
On 22 October, the Polish senate decided on more severe punishments for sex offenders, with only one abstention. Chemical castration already exists as an option for sex offenders in Denmark, Germany, Great Britain, Switzerland, Sweden, and, more controversially, in the Czech Republic
warsaw, sex, sexuality, lech kaczynski, donald tusk, media, pedophily
2 days in Warsaw: Solidarnosc, cult Polish documentaries and Berlusconi
For two days at the end of April 2009, the Polish capital becomes the 'centre of Europe' as the EU's largest centre-right party descend on the city. Quality time spent between British, Spanish and Polish colleagues raises an understanding of what the last twenty years mean, and the gap between east and west. Opinion
warsaw, identity, cinema, intercultural dialogue, director, divorce, communism
Solidarity turn their backs on 1989
In 1989, the Solidarnosc (Solidarity) trade union contributed to a democratic revolution in Poland. Now, on the 20th anniversary the celebrations could be called off due to trade union protestors
warsaw, 1989, gdansk, iron curtain, berlin wall, history, civil society
Jose Manuel Durão Barroso: ‘We don’t need another EU commission candidate'
The conservative and incumbent will be running to renew his mandate for another five years as the head of the executive branch of the EU. ‘We are building a supranational democracy’ with a double legitimisation system ‘in which consensus is the most important,’ he says in Warsaw
warsaw, josé manuel barroso, commissione europea, interview, central and eastern europe, european commission, poland
Sali Berisha: 'We are going to win the elections because Albanians are smart people'
The Albanian prime minister, 64, announced his country's official EU membership bid to the Czech presidency of the council on 28 April 2009. In Warsaw, the lively PM talk elections, internet and the EU at the two-day congress of the European people's party (EPP). Albania is one of its six non-EU members*
warsaw, kosovo, heads of state, nato, czech presidency, sali berisha, albania
Young Europeans only know the Holocaust through war movies
Or do they? One of the most horrific events of the 20th century remains a painful recollection of a war spurred by false ideology that claimed six million lives. Nobody wants to take the trip down the road of oblivion, because it forces us to revisit the reality of humanity at its worst. Conversations in Spain and Italy
warsaw, italy, seconda guerra mondiale, holocaust memorial day, culture, war, holocaust
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