Law / Can a student go in any other Schengen country with a Polish National Visa (D) [46]


Is that true? I seem to remember a story a few years ago of some Turkish students (Erasmus or something like that) who got in trouble because they tried to go to Germany to visit friends there. They were caught in a random spot check in a train. At that time a visa to one Schengen country did not necessarily mean you could travel to others.

Has that changed?

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


I don't know enough about Białystok to say, I've only been there once many years ago. I didn't much like the town, much of it had a distinct.... non-Polish feel (not necessarily Russian but not really Polish). It was also like stepping at least five years back into the past from Warsaw (or western Poland).

People that have spent more time there more recently would be able to give you a better answer.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


Do they know what they're talking about? Have they lived in Poland and do they know both cities?

The people here who have lived in Poland and know both cities are telling you that Wrocław is the better option.

But listen to random people who may or may not know both cities if you want....

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


A Polish Majdan is more likely to be against him....

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


ah ha! The other shoe drops. For most fields a serious scholar coming to Poland is not going to find much to do because... the programs are in English and mostly not so good (just like other English programs in Poland).

They might be able to find an individual scholar or two they can work with but then they don't need Erasmus as much.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


He sounds to me like a typical current Erasmus student. What century was it when you hosted yours?

At present Erasmus seems more like an intergration mechanism to mix students from different countries than a serious educational program. I imageine there are a few workaholics that treat it as a framework for advanced research but that's probably a small minority.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Students now.... aren't like they used to be.

The Erasmus students that seem to get the most from the program now are those that go to a place that speaks a language they are studying fairly seriously. I once knew a couple of Turkish guys who were studying Polish in Turkey and it was doing wonders for them.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


Hype for tourists. I've been to both and if I had to choose where to live for a semester I'd choose Wrocław in a heartbeat.

Szczecin is a mixed bag, I didn't much like it when I was there but some people do... there's no old town square which makes it a little... unreal.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


Polish? Any of them

English? None of them. You'll get better at face to face communication with other non-native speakers but that will actually cripple your ability to handle English in more formal situations (I've seen it happen, the simplied, often wrong, forms that develop in young people who use English with other non-native speakers are very difficult to change and they sound ignorant and uneducated to native speakers).

Going to a non-English speaking country to improve your English is not a good idea.

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


The student is on Erasmus, my contact with Erasmus students in Poland (and talking to Erasmus students coming back to Poland) is that actually doing things useful for their studies is _very_ low on the list of priorities of most of them. It's a valuable experience but not necessarily in purely academic/professional terms (nor is it meant to be).

For what the Erasmus program actually is (as opposed to what it is on paper or what some people think it should be) Wrocław is by far the best choice.

Białystok would be for the adventurous (or foolhardy) or those who know some Polish already (and are white)

Kraków would be for the conventionally minded with lots of money.

Wrocław is the most interesting with relatively easy connections to Germany and Czech Republic and Poznań (and even Kraków, worth a visit if not a semester).

Study / Wroclaw or Krakow or Bialystok to study in Poland? [36]


This is all absolutely true. It's maybe just a tad rougher than Kraków (apart from Nowa Huta) but mostly very nice. Also, the nice area in Wrocław seems larger than the nice area in Kraków (too touristy and kind of overhyped in my opinion).

Wrocław all the way!

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]

You have that in common with Kaczyński!

Study / Looking for suitable English secondary school in Warsaw [17]


If anything he doesn't discourage enough. Poland is not a country for those who want a degree from an English language program and who will be unfit for the Polish labor market after graduation.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]


And who would enter a coalition with them? They tend to make any allies intensely regret any cooperation with them...

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


And you seem oddly.... indifferent. Almost as if you were trying to deflect suspicion.... hmmmmm

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


There's never been a shortage of crazy Serbs, but I think Crnogroac is either Montenegrin (apparently big into Putain) or a Russian troll, maybe paid.


He's a little fish in an even littler pond...

Study / Looking for suitable English secondary school in Warsaw [17]


More than one reason


That's a big part of it (and also true in western Europe, even in places like the Netherlands and Denmark) more often than not people teach better in their own language (or a second language in a place they live). Teaching in a foreign language is rarely going to work out very well and if the language in question is also foreign for the students....


Polish universities have pretty high quality at the undergraduate level, graduate studies mostly don't really exist, doctorate programs are more about guided research under a mentor than classes.

News / 60% of Poles say Szydło's government should resign [238]

Hey Beata!

Thanks for winning two elections for me by keeping me out of sight and pretending I wasn't going to take over the second the victory was announced. At the time I told you that you had a choice of retiring gracefully after the election or pretending to be prime minister until my cack-handed maneuvering wrecked your career. You chose the latter and now the bill has become due,

yours,
Jarek

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


yes, kind of a resident kook (why he doesn't actually find a forum with more Polish people I'm not sure....)

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


But that's all Crow has. He's like a small lizard who brags about his great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather who was a dragon.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


How is that supposed to work?

1. organize massive protests in Belgrade
2. ?
3. The EU collapse.

What is step 2?

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


It's Kali's morality all over again.
pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/moralno%C5%9B%C4%87_Kalego

(summary: Kali is a fictional character - For Kali, a bad deed was when someone stole his livestock, while a good deed was when he stole someone else's livestock).

It's maybe a literary verstion of TKM (roughly I'ts our fvcking turn [to steal from the public kitty] now) the guiding principle behind all Polish politics

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


I criticise them for doing this in a completely unprofessional manner. Had they proposed DSW a couple months ago and worked to build support for him then that would be one thing.

Springing him at the last minute and crying about how mean everybody is like a bunch bvtthurt babies is the level of competence i've come to expect from Jarek i spólka...

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


There are no refugees from Iraq, Afghanistan, Morocco, Kosovo, Tunisia, Pakistan or Bangladesh (which countries accounted for a large majority of those against whom Merkel decided to not defend the German border).

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


It's all a little theoretical since the majority of those who arrived in Germany due to Merkel's decision to not close the border are not refugees by any stretch of the imagination.

dw.com/en/in-eu-asylum-applicants-jump-to-213000-in-three-months/a-18723295

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


International law required them to register in the first safe country. Most of them crossed half a dozen safe countries in search of the German Taxpayer's teat.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


If you're too stupid to understand figurative language I'll make it easy for you: I freely admit she never said "I'm inviting a bunch of people to Germany!" (in any language nor did she use the word invite or any similar word during the "refugee" crisis).

On the other hand, she might as well have invited them because the end result of her terrible policy has been the exact same as it would have been if she did use the word "invite": She's burdened the German taxpayer with the perpetual upkeep of hundreds of thousands of young men with no hope of ever being anything but criminals or wards of the state and who go beserk at regular intervals and start attacking German citizens. And she's trying to ship some of them to other countries that don't want them because their leaders aren't as emotionally unstable as Merkel (well JK is but in a different direction).

You really can't defend Merkel's policies vis a vis pseduo-refugees that poured into Europe so you play silly word games.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


I think you have me confused with someone else. I don't care what she said or didn't say. Go play your trolling trix with someone else, rabbit.

The real world effect of her policy has been to burder her own country with hundreds of thousands of people who have no realistic hope of every being anything but welfare pets. And she's strained relations across the continent as she tries to rescue her image form the terrible effects of her terrible policy.


I can appreciate that, but too many people in too many positions of influence and power seem unwilling to acknowledge any mistakes (like the Euro a currency that cannot ever possibly work for about half the countries in the EU and whose acceptance is still non-negotiable).

The idea that Germany could ever share a currency without common fiscal policy or transfers is jsut insane, and they're still trying to pretend it can work.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


dailycaller.com/2017/03/05/merkel-allegedly-changed-her-mind-on-closing-borders-last-minute-then-1-million-refugees-arrived

She made the decision to not police the border. They wanted to go to Germany for the welfare and she decided to not stop them.

She had other options, she decided to not exercise them because she's an emotional, jittery, panicky leader who needs to be removed from office with all due, legal speed.

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


I don't need to. Actions speak louder than words. She had border security set up, but lost her nerve and let the floodgates of random people come into Germany.

thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/jittery-merkel-let-in-migrants-only-to-avoid-televised-border-clashes-dt3gjpcn]

What's your explanation for how they got into Germany?

i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/09/02/08/2BDECCD800000578-3218327-Anger_Migrants_also_travel_to_Germany_from_Budapest_Hungary_wher-a-24_1441178092747.jpg

News / Tusk or Hollande -- a Salomonic dilemma? What will be better for Poland? [180]


Figuring out what EU leaders want has long been a loser's game. They have some weird agenda (or are simply stupid beyond belief).