TVP’s WiadomoÅ›ci (News) called me yesterday and asked if I could comment on the fact that England is to play Germany in the World Cup. I explained carefully that not all English people know about football or have opinions on it. They replied that time was short and I decided an on-camera interview might be [...]
On the 1st September 2009, 70 years after the breakout of the Second World War, world leaders will come to Westerplatte in GdaÅ„sk, Poland, where it all began. They will pay tribute to the victims, line the paths of reconcilliation and vow to make sure similar things don’t happen again. But as delegations iron their [...]
Poles trying to get onto the property ladder are flooding across the border into the former East Germany where prices are lower and the living is easy. It is estimated that around 2000 Polish families have purchased houses in Meklemburg and Brandenburg recently. In a story from Gazeta Wyborcza, translated into English by our very [...]
A discussion we’ve been having recently on this blog on whether Poland is poor or not, now has a surprising epilogue. This year the income of an average resident of theWarsaw region (the Masovian voivodship) will level to 88% of the EU average – says Eurostat. This is a great achievement: even though EU funding [...]