Travel / How to go to Frankfurt from Poland? [16]

bahn.de is your friend. You'll find offers there on tickets from Frankfurt to Katowice, although it's a 12 hour journey.

The best option is to fly from Frankfurt to Wrocław, Poznań or Warsaw and continue your journey by train from there. In terms of convenience, Warsaw will be the easiest route.

News / Should Poland exit the EU immediately? [377]


I'm really not sure what this has to do with the simple fact that his title is President Wałęsa.


Of course, it's normal that different countries have different opinions on what the EU is/should be. But those living across the pond really could do with learning that Poland has no interest whatsoever in leaving the EU.

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Hungary, maybe not. The problem there is that the opposition is a complete mess, unlike Poland. The other thing is that Hungary is small and insignificant, so the EU isn't particularly bothered.

Poland on the other hand... if PiS genuinely believe that the EU will keep giving them a lot of cash while putting up with this nonsense, they're sorely mistaken.

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The European Commission are now involved :
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I think the one thing that most people have forgotten is that PO have very strong local structures - the party might be weak right now nationally, but the foundations are there. I saw one intelligent commentary that suggested that Nowoczesna need to focus not on the national battle, but on building up strong local connections so that they can compete in 2018. But I wonder if things keep on going this way, we might see an agreement between PO, the PSL and Nowoczesna to fight on a common ticket instead of dividing the vote.

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Laptop Ziobro is incredibly dangerous. Along with Kaczyński, he's an opportunist - he has no real views of his own, but only rather the ones that will allow him to accumulate and build power.


Internet censorship is almost certainly coming. Fortunately, PF is hosted in the US and so the law there protects the Admin against anything posted here.


A ban on KOD demonstrations will almost certainly come under some spurious context if they keep happening. But as always, they will use an allegedly "independent" local mayor to test the waters first.


Excuses.

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ewybory.eu/sondaz-ibris-dla-wirtualnej-polski-22-12-2015/

Latest poll from 22nd December

Nowoczesna 30.8%
PiS 27.9%
PO 12.7%
Kukiz 7.7%
ZL 6.1%
Korwin 5.0%
PSL 3.8%
Razem 1.9%

I believe the correct response is.

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Indeed. The Polonia don't seem to understand that Poland causing trouble with the EU doesn't mean that Poland is anti-EU. PiS have their specific view of what the EU means, but they've never seriously suggested leaving.


Nice attempt, Duda ;)

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Something that's curious - I don't know if it's the same there, but a lot of carp in Western Poland is allegedly from a place called Milicz, close to Wrocław. The problem is that there's obviously a lot more carp being sold than is being bred there!

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Erm...are you actually following Polish news?

The media had a field day a couple of days ago after discovering that many ministers were having private chats with Kaczyński directly rather than going through Szydło - it's obvious to everyone in Poland (and the opinion polls back it up) that she's just a figurehead.

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Simple language for simpletons that think that 500zł bribes are worth returning to Communism for.

Amazing how the workers were often pacified with cash during the PRL and they're pacified again with cash. lol, or perhaps not.

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Severely so, given that he openly supports a party which appoints ex-communists to many top positions. It can only be assumed that the real enemy was staring us in the face all along, and we walked straight into what will be a nightmare.

Doug, get yourself involved with KOD.

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Don't worry, the only bum here is the one that openly supports a government comprising of ex-communists and the children of communists.

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I'm there.

The behaviour of this clearly communist government is diabolical.

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Referral, in a medical context.

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Or they can change Poland, as we're doing.


Branding your opponents as "fascist" is straight out of the Russian playbook. Poor attempt.


Clearly not. The strongest opposition comes from successful and patriotic Poles.


If they could, there wouldn't have been demonstrations in over 30 cities last weekend.


Sorry, but Poland has meddled in plenty of other people's affairs in the past, including Ukraine's last year.


President Wałęsa. I see your knowledge of Polish protocol is like your knowledge of Polish history, Polish law and many other things - non-existent. Show some respect, won't you?

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It's meaningless. People always jump between parties, and as the article points out, PO have much more established and stronger local structures than Nowoczesna. Someone from Kukiz'15 has gone to Nowoczesna today as well.

There's not going to be any mass exodus from PO unless they elect someone completely useless as leader.

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As we said, no experience.

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It won't be. It will hurt Poland a lot. A lot of what Orlen have been doing needs experience at the helm, not old political puppets that will do what they're told to do and nothing else. But it's almost like a new criteria - can you run a state owned company? No, not unless you have experience in the PZPR.

PiS hammering PKO and PZU with a huge tax (I saw one figure that said PZU will be paying 3 times more tax than anyone else in the insurance industry) says a lot about the real intentions of PiS.

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If this was true, the złoty would be gaining on the other currencies. Unfortunately, the markets feel that the PiS policies (such as destroying the WIG20 with a tax that hammers PZU and PKO) are negative. It's particularly painful to see against the CZK, which has been in the toilet for years because of the Czech incompetence vs Poland.

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Financial markets clearly have no faith in PiS.

Poland is always compared to three countries - the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.

18th May 2015 - just before the 2nd round of the Presidential Election

1 PLN = 75.80 HUF
1 PLN = 6.722 CZK
1 PLN = 0.245 EUR

Today :

1 PLN = 73.83 HUF
1 PLN = 6.353 CZK
1 PLN = 0.235 EUR

So it's pretty obvious that Poland is not going well against the three main competitors regionally.

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It's incredible. If they'd actually set foot in Western Ukraine, they'd know that those people - although lovely people - are also the kind of people that will fight you to the end of their life to defend Ukraine.


Indeed. Why would they care? I even understand the American attitude - who in America would support going to war over Poland?


Indeed. Poles aren't stupid - they know fine well that if the German economy is so closely linked to the Polish one, then Germany will have no choice but to defend Poland in the event of attack.

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I can assure you that many Poles know fine well that the United States is not going to protect Poland in the event of war with Russia.


Can we add "Ukrainian history" to the list of topics that you appear to know nothing about?

Any attempt to annex Western Ukraine to Poland would result immediately in a large and capable armed resistance. If you know anything about Ukraine, you know that Western Ukraine is home to incredibly nationalistic Ukrainians that would fight to the last man against any stupid ideas.

By the way, Poland doesn't want Lwów, as witnessed by the fact that no serious political party considers such a thing.

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Yes, the beautiful thing about PiS is that they're so prone to petty tricks (such as claiming that everyone attending a KOD demonstration was paid) that when they find something genuine, no-one believes it because they've lied so much.


I'm 100% certain they're going to try and introduce some typical PRL-esque **** filter that will 'accidentally' ban other websites too.

Just spotted this cracker of a story : thenews/1/12/Artykul/233432,Polish-National-Stadium-CEO-replaced


In other words, a successful CEO has been replaced with yet another PiS puppet.

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It's very very good for us in the opposition. The more dirty tricks, the more people will head to the streets. Their tricks are rubbish anyway.

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It's a very good article, and the story went viral. Macierewicz's actions have just guaranteed no NATO base in Poland (and probably not anywhere except the Czech Republic) for the next 10 years.

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All coming from PiS-media, of course.

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Exactly. It's controlled by PiS, as this handy infographic shows.

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Law / UK driving license mess in Poland [72]

What on earth is a DVLA code and why do you need it to rent a car?

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Why do we need a referendum if there's a clear political consensus that people don't want them?

I'd prefer a referendum on Duda right now. He would almost certainly lose it.