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Business

Up, up and…return: Govt. seeks to repolonise helicopter company

The news comes amid broader government interest in “repolonising” foreign-owned companies, from banks to shipyards.

Science | Poland Now

Polish universities in Top 10 for foreign students

Largest group of foreign students is from Ukraine.

Art & Culture

Internationally acclaimed sculptor, Magdalena Abakanowicz, would have been 88 today

She launched a highly successful career in communist Poland, eventually gaining an international reputation for her evocative textile sculptures of the human figure.

News & Politics

MoD, Pakistani military chief discuss defence cooperation

Closer cooperation in defence and the arms industry was the topic of Tuesday talks in Warsaw between Defence Minister Mariusz Błaszczak and Chief of Staff of the Pakistani Armed Forces Qamar Javed Bajwa.

Art & Culture

Zion a leitmotif of 28th Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków

The 28th Jewish Culture Festival in Kraków (southern Poland), to start on Friday and end on July 1, will be dedicated to Zion, the festival director, Robert Makuch, told reporters on Tuesday.

Art & Culture | History

Polish music to mark independence centenary, culture minister announces

One hundred Polish musical pieces will resound on 22 stages, 11 of them abroad, on Poland's Independence Day (Nov. 11), to mark this year's Polish independence centenary, Deputy PM and Culture Minister Piotr Gliński announced on Tuesday.

Business

Apple Pay launches in Poland

Contactless i-payments arrive in Poland.

News & Politics | Business

Gaz-System selects Baltic Pipe route

Polish gas transmission operator Gaz-System has chosen the preferred route for the Baltic Pipe, a gas transmission facility that will deliver Norwegian gas to Poland under the sea. The route will cover 275 km in total, the company announced.

Business

Ships to be able to fuel up with LNG at Gdynia

The port of Gdynia on Poland's northern Baltic coast will be the first in the country at which ships running on Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) will be able to fill up with the fuel.

News & Politics

Polish President to address National Assembly on July 13

Polish President Andrzej Duda will deliver an address to the National Assembly at the Royal Castle in Warsaw at noon on July 13, PAP was told on Tuesday by the director of the Sejm (lower house) information centre.

Art & Culture

Zbigniew Libera – the man behind the infamous Lego death camp

Although probably best-known for his Lego model concentration camps, Zbigniew Libera is one of the leading exponents of Poland’s critical art movement of the 1990’s.

Multimedia

The First News talks to the two men behind The Media as a Public Service conference held in Warsaw, 11-12 June

Poland holds International Communications Forum

Scientists colouring enzymes to track disease

Russian hybrid war in Western Europe