Author: the krakow post

Taking the music to the masses Elektrowoz Festival toured through Katowice to Krakow in December with the entertainment never leaving the tracks.

The Ministry of Education has done an about-face and begun considering whether to add a section on religion to the comprehensive examination that high school seniors must pass before they can graduate.

Ombudsman Jan Kochanowski has sued the Constitutional Tribunal over regulations governing the retirement age of women and men. Currently, retirement age in Poland for men is 65 and for woman 60.

Poland’s new Prime Minister Donald Tusk is focusing on improving his nation’s foreign policy. He says the former government’s policy was damaging Poland’s relations with, for example, Germany and Russia.

The Tusk government has reversed Poland’s refusal to go along with a European Day Against Capital Punishment – a stand that had prevented the Council of Europe from establishing the day throughout Europe.

The arrest warrant for business tycoon Ryszard Krauze has been lifted.

Christmas is coming soon and with it a fury of shopping.

Regional councils responsible for the distribution of EU funds for the period 2007-2013 will announce, according to Gazeta Prawna, the first lot of competitions for the best business plans in the first quarter of 2008.

The Polish-owned construction company Polnord, a subsidiary of Prokom, owned by mogul Ryszard Krauze is set to commence on a large scale construction project in St. Petersburg.

An announcement was made on Monday stating that a decision will be made concerning the separation of the Telekomunikacja Polska sectors by mid 2008.