News / Russia says: WE'LL NUKE POLAND [150]

The question is how to respond. I favour the international community taking a very strong line against Russia; their ambitions need reining in. Poland shooting down a Russian plane would escalate things in the wrong way.

News / Poland -- Europe's only counterweight to Russia [271]

Yes, there is a distinct pattern here...

Travel / Mobile internet for tourists in Poland? [35]


Just put it in a USB dongle.

News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]


Given that it was started by a non-voter, there's a lot of sniping in this thread about the very successful and twice elected Mayor...

News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]


If you think that posting racist rubbish, whining pointlessly and floundering in your lies is 'business', then that does explain a lot about your situation...


Exactly. And nobody pays much attention to that...


That would be the same Gronkiewicz-Waltz who was successfully re-elected...

News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]

Well, you're obviously entitled to your views, however extreme. Nevertheless, the Mayor cannot be expected to tailor her speech to fit the prejudices of someone who thinks

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News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]


It's a current event that's relevant.

What sort of sick person would do a


anyway?

Love / Do women in Poland change their surnames to a feminine form of their husbands' surnames? [40]

Adams. It's a British name which doesn't have -ski on the end.

News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]

Why would she make reference to post-war figures that you dislike during a commemoration of the Ghetto Uprising?

News / Warsaw mayor defiles Ghetto observance with anti-Semitic charges [19]

Entirely appropriate for the Mayor to comment, whether you agree with it or not.


Anti-Polish if anything.

News / Do you believe that western Europe (ie EU) won`t punish Poland if Poland try to go out of EU? [44]

The proof of the pudding is when Poland has to be a contributor as well as a recipient of infrastructure funding. One of the reasons that the EU is being very careful with their justified criticism of the regime is in order to not give them any excuses for non-payment.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


So in fact no, no connection at all. Basically you were making stuff up as usual when you claimed a link between the fund manager and respected philanthropist and the newspaper who wouldn't give you a job when you begged for one all those years ago.


Not doing yourself any favours, are you?

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]


As if by magic, Mo?

Seriously, the OP has asked an important question and it's better if you and Porky Pok/MooseLimb/Pigsy keep your naughtiness in Random Chat, rather than the main forum.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


Exactly. And though Po and other authoritarian ultra-nationalists may dislike the idea of a highly respected newspaper that doesn't share their views, the media independence they despise is not about to go away.

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]

You're fine. Basically if someone stops you and says "Do you have anything to declare" then yes, it would be normal to declare it. Otherwise no, just walk through as normal.

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]

Funnily enough, in all those years of travelling in and out of Poland, many many times and at different airports, I've never seen a 'cash sniffing dog'!

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]


Don't be daft, Mo, stop trying to play with words and above all stop misinforming the OP on the way things work when entering Poland from within the EU. Some of us do this all the time. Literally, many times and often with large cash sums.

BTW, my Polish language skills are fine, not that the official IATA website is in Polish anyway. Try not to be mischievous for an hour or so, if you're capable of that, Mo.

The link to IATA explains it all


Precisely as I said at first

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]



Do explain...

As I say, there are sadly some who would prefer a return to PRL-style government control of the media...

Fortunately, that isn't going to happen.

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]

Looks like he's doing that already, and the information is very straightforward.

And both accurate and up-to-date.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


The Duda/Kaczynska thing is nothing new and is hot news due to the wife leaving. Perhaps Po thinks the country's main newspaper should have remained silent on the topic everyone was talking about. Basically take the North Korea approach.


Obsessed with Jewish people....


Yes, and in every other country the rumours would be front page news (remember John Major and "Clare's Kitchen"?) so no reason to ignore the elephant in the room here.

PiS really would prefer a return to PRL censorship and media manipulation - they are quite transparent and shameless about this.

Life / Information about sending items from a foreign country to Poland [10]


Outgoing is OK - it's usually very quick. Basically the pickings aren't as rich.


It's very possible that your surname is Polish rather than foreign. I tend to have things sent using a Polish surname to avoid problems.

Life / Information about sending items from a foreign country to Poland [10]


Have a look at some of the threads here, Looker, and talk to people from abroad who live in Poland. Sadly theft of incoming mail is so commonplace that some countries' postal services now have contracts with couriers rather than risk Poczta Polska.

I've been lucky - I've only had bank cards stolen which are easy to cancel. Others have some real horror stories.

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]

This might be useful:


iatatravelcentre.com/PL-Poland-customs-currency-airport-tax-regulations-details.htm

This site is the Polish equivalent of the foreign office and gives a hotline number for queries. Personally I would just bring it through, never having been stopped despite having entered Poland over 100 times.

msz.gov.pl/en/travel_to_poland/customs_info

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]

It's one of those EU anomalies.

Basically if customs officers approach you (I fly in and out roughly fortnightly and nobody has ever approached me) and ask, you declare it, however they don't ask you as a matter of routine.

To be safe, I'd carry something - perhaps a screenshot of your online bank account showing the withdrawal - to be on the safe side, however that's being belt and braces careful.

Travel / Warsaw - Exchanging Large Sum GBP > PLN in Poland [48]


That is correct - within the EU there is free movement of capital. Poland does have cash controls, however this is not enforced within the EU and the general rule is that you have to declare only if asked to do so by a customs officer. You don't have to seek them out and inform them.


Poland is in the EU - there is no requirement to declare cash - in fact there is nobody at the land borders to actually declare it to.

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]


What are 'the Soros mob'?

As far as I know, the excellent Mr Soros is a fund manager, not a media tycoon.


From you that is rich...

Feedback / Sad news today of the passing of a member of our site (Avalon) [16]

The same; every sympathy.for your sad loss.

He'd certainly been posting here for a long time; maybe since the start.

News / Russia says: WE'LL NUKE POLAND [150]

To shoot down a Russian plane?

In international relations, two wrongs are rarely right...

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

On you to disprove it, boy.

If anyone unfamiliar with it is interested, their website is: wyborcza.pl

News / Gazeta Wyborcza of Poland losing readers [301]

That's actually rather lame, Wulky.

It's still the top selling quality newspaper, still the only one with an international reputation, and yes, still an independent media source. One with a highly respected editor too, a man interned by the communists during the Solidariy years.


Floated on the Warsaw stock exchange.

And all this however much you dislike the fact that it doesn't reflect your extremist (and as a long-term economic migrant to the UK) very out of touch views. And in Po's case because they wouldn't give him any work for the obvious reasons...