For the ninth time, the presidential couple supported the Noble Parcel – a project of the “Spring ” Association. “This year, Andrzej Duda and Agata Kornhauser-Duda prepared gifts for a…
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The police are increasing their arsenal of modern measures to keep Poles safe. Four new Bell-407GXi helicopters have joined marked and unmarked police cars, motorbikes, laser speedometers or drones, reports…
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Economy
PKP Intercity to buy locomotives from Newag. The first ones will start to run in 2 years’ time
PKP Intercity has concluded a tender for the purchase of 63 multi-system electric locomotives with an option to order a further 32 vehicles and provide maintenance services. This record-breaking procedure…
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Culture
National Museum in Kraków hosts “Rationed modernity. Modernism in communist Poland” exhibition
Several hundred exhibits from various areas of life, art, and culture from the period of the Polish People’s Republic (PRL) can be viewed on the first floor of the National…
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Science
Silesian University of Technology to establish a Competence Centre for Management of Hazardous Situations in Industry
An ultra-modern Competence Centre for safety, operational analysis, and management of hazardous situations in industry will be established at the Silesian University of Technology. This is the result of an…
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A new 95-octane petrol, labelled E10, will be available at petrol stations in Poland from January 2024. The new fuel will contain up to 10 % bioethanol and will replace…
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History
Ludwik Zamenhof was nominated eight times for the Nobel Peace Prize for his Esperanto. He never received it
In the heart of Bialystok, Ludwik Lazarus Zamenhof was born on 15 December 1859. His birth into a Jewish family, in a city where Polish, Russian, German and Jewish communities…
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He came from an assimilated Jewish family and graduated from law school and then started working at the Discount Bank. Aleksander Hertz was one of the co-founders of the Bank…
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With the participation of President Andrzej Duda, Speaker of the Sejm Szymon Holownia, Speaker of the Senate Małgorzata Kidawa-Błońska, Israeli Ambassador Yacov Livne, and in the presence of around 200…
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Events
Prime Minister Tusk meets with the head of the European Commission. Poland to receive EUR 5 billion later this year
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announced on Friday, 15 December after a meeting with Prime Minister Tusk, that EU is ready to provide Poland with €5 billion in…