News / Polish Stalinist criminal hiding abroad supports KOD [101]


You've certainly heard of his family member currently part of the government. It explains a lot about the privileged lives they had.


Wtf?

News / What will drive Poland after 2020 - when Eu funding dries up? [96]


Just a far higher proportion of them than those who chose more intelligently to remain. Which we probably will anyway.


Very shortly Ukrainans will have visa free access to Poland. Rightly so.


PiS inherited a growing economy which they are making a mess of.

News / Polish Stalinist criminal hiding abroad supports KOD [101]


You mean someone like Henryk Świątkowski? The prosecutor who called for the death sentence to be given to Pilecki?

I wonder if he has any relatives in public life today...

Real Estate / Gdansk/tri city Rental Market [15]


If you're studying, you may find the halls of residence at Wrzeszcz a better deal. There are a lot of them and more than one site.

Travel / Poland's PKP Intercity ticket booking not working? [6]

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Wait a few days and try again. If, after 2 Dec it still doesn't work, it's because it doesn't work for every train (some you can't book online for certain reasons) or because there's a technical break, usually during the night. It should however work.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


He is at the moment beginning to do do just that, since man-made global warming is a reality and a very dangerous one.

Poland, by the way, acknowledges it too.

UK, Ireland / PLEXIT -The great British exodus (Brits in Poland returning home) [38]


The Germans certainly would. Poles too.


This is what we want to avoid. Winners and losers.


Unfortunately, so far the benefits cuts have largely hurt what we fortunately no longer call the 'deserving poor'.


Everything so far suggests she will have problems trying to have access to the single market if she wants to restrict the free movement of people.

News / Polish journalist punched on Russian TV [32]

No Wulky, unless you've tried to strike a match on a wet bar of soap. In public life and politics too, some things just aren't possible.

With Russia, however, anything is possible and we here in Poland can expect interesting times ahead. A weak government here, a devious populist in Moscow and several nearby countries further into chaos.

UK, Ireland / PLEXIT -The great British exodus (Brits in Poland returning home) [38]


Turkeys voting for Christmas.

I've a strong suspicion that it won't happen anyway, that history and economics will intervene across Europe before the demented Brexiteers get a chance to cause further damage.


This I agree with. The danger is however falling standards of living (happening already) in the U.K. while quality of life in the rest of Europe continues to rise at the expense of Farage's victims in Britain.

UK, Ireland / PLEXIT -The great British exodus (Brits in Poland returning home) [38]


Most people aspire to more than that.


Unemployment is in fact low in the U.K.


It's, not its, and it was Tebbit not Thatcher. Better to support industry and the workers rather than let rampant capitalism destroy the economic base of the country and leave the people of Britain in a 1930's like desperation. And stop the fruits of the workers' labour vanishing away to shareholders.

Anyway, that's going off topic. There is no exodus of British citizens from Poland, although there is currently a flight of capital from Poland due to the current political instability. We may also see that in the U.K., especially if there are risks to the single market.

UK, Ireland / PLEXIT -The great British exodus (Brits in Poland returning home) [38]


And you're volunteering for that?

Study / Turkish guy to study at a university in Poland. Is that problem for Polish people? [139]


It doesn't matter if you are or aren't. Here in Warsaw there's quite a mix of people from many countries, especially in student communities, and you will be fine.

Just avoid large football crowds as you would doubtless also do in Istanbul or elsewhere. Far less organised racism than many places and you will see fewer such people here than you might see demonstrating in Istklal Caddesi.

Good luck and enjoy your time here.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

Certainly he had a chequered youth in the fossil fuels field, however he did repent and get better about it.


This much is true, nuts like Kevin Annett etc, however they as a rule do tend to be conscious of the environment and alert to the (possibly irrevocable) effects of man-made climate change.


Not the biggest by far but getting there. Allowing polluters to continue polluting by bribing less developed countries. At least in Poland (still very polluted here in Warsaw) things are slowly improving.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]

As he got older and more mature he got better.

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]


For phrases in English, it is of every significance.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Exactly as I said.

Man-made global warming is a reality.

News / Polish journalist punched on Russian TV [32]


A former politician and supporter of Russia. Maybe staged though, in order to humiliate the Pole publicly. With Russia anything is possible.

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]


Agreed absolutely. It's a mix of belligerence and a lack of understanding of the language.

UK, Ireland / PLEXIT -The great British exodus (Brits in Poland returning home) [38]


Wealthy Poles are also shifting assets abroad due to political instability in Poland combined with the risks from Russia.

News / Poland blocks any action on climate change [569]


Even the Trump person has started to acknowledge the reality of man-made global warming.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]


If anything he as a historical individual had a fairly wide circle of acquaintances from all walks of life.


He'd have been there on the Polish pro-democracy marches.


He would be very much such a person


Indeed, there is no official religion here; freedom to practise any religion or none is enshrined in law.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]


And a very true one.


Nonsense.


You might want to Google the concept of Jihad before writing such nonsense.

Interesting what Jesus (a leftist if ever there was one) would have to say.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]


Immigrant populations in general. A good argument for immigration really.


Which he very much was. The word Christian was unknown to him. I suspect he would have a lot to say about Poland's current regime, very little of it pleasant.

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]


Historical narratives should always be questioned.


The backlash against the far right will be spectacular. Such pond life tend to make one step forward and two steps back, paradoxically the opposite of the way the soldiers of the appalling Mussolini (remember what happened to him) used to March.

History / The ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust adds to Poland's Responsibility [124]

Quite. The work of the Danish resistance is common knowledge. To be fair, Occupied Poland and Occupied Denmark had very different conditions. Nevertheless, there was still lot of bravery there, especially helping Denmark's Jewish population. As of course there was here too.

This is altogether an odd thread. There's no "ongoing de-Germanisation of the Nazis and the Holocaust" in any way at all, and Poland's history is rarely questioned unless there's a scandal over property etc.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]


I wonder if you really think I thought he was...


He does behave that way sometimes...


He's finding that his rule is by no means liked.

Anyway, very little of the commenting here or elsewhere online mentioned that it happened on the Feast of Christ The King, a holy day of obligation for Catholics and one where they always have a big mass attended by the President etc. It was just somewhat bigger this year since they wanted to put a show on for the first anniversary.

Life / Acknowledging apologies in Poland [3]

Any sort of apology is rare here so people are unused to it.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]

A barely symbolic gesture (held on the feast of Christ the King anyway, when half the cathedrals in the world have such celebrations) since His followers already acknowledge Him anyway and those who aren't interested don't. The constitution still affirms that Poland is a secular state and that constitution was the choice of the people.

Good that they acknowledge a Jew as king.

News / Jesus Christ is Now Officially the King of Poland [164]

Great that Poland now has a Jewish head of state.