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Against all odds! CEE region reins in COVID-19

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Poland and the CEE region have managed to put the brakes on the pandemic.

How a Pole brought coffee to Europe

It was Jerzy Kulczycki who is thought to have opened the first coffee house in Vienna following the Ottoman siege there in 1683.

Coronavirus Diary #8

In this episode of the Coronavirus Diary I'm in the garden, and I'm wondering whether all these stats the govenrment are giving us really hold up...

Polish celebrity chef saves his bacon despite Covid lockdown

Chef and restaurateur Damian Wawrzyniak has gone from managing Michelin-starred kitchens to baking bread for delivery to adapt to the pandemic lockdown.

Coronavirus Diary #7

After a month in lockdown, The Debrief host John Beauchamp pines for the open road and is showing signs of going slightly mad...

Famed 'White Eagle' chain to enter back into service

The chain of the Order of the White Eagle is set to be used by Poland's head of state for the first time since the 1930s.

Fighting disease… with viruses?

It’s not just misery and despair in this time of COVID-19, and not all viruses want to kill us. We look at new clinical tests ongoing in Wrocław.

Coronavirus Diary #6

It’s the Debrief Coronavirus Diary part six, and today we’re keeping it local. Very local…

Farmer unearths unbelievable Roman coin haul

One of the largest ever hauls of treasure from the Roman period to be found in Poland and the largest ever in the Lublin region has been uncovered in Hrubieszów near Lublin.

Coronavirus Diary #5

In today’s weekend Debrief, a short update and some musings from Warsaw.

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Top 5 articles:

  • Over 100,000 slaughtered with axes, pitchforks, scythes and knives: The Wołyń massacre started 76 years ago today and lasted for two years
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • Beaten, starved and tortured: The horrifying story of Hitler’s concentration camp for children
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
Culture | History | Life

Haunting never-before-seen photos reveal Jewish life in first few weeks of Nazi German occupation

Released by the Warsaw Rising Museum, and compiled in collaboration with the Jewish Historical Institute, the book ‘W obliczu Zagłady’ (‘In the Face of the Holocaust’) begins by showing pictures taken not just before the Ghetto Wall was erected, but before Jews were even required to wear identifying armbands

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  • Poland plans to bid for 2036 Summer Olympic Games, Duda says
  • Poland to host 2027 Volleyball World Championships
  • Poland mulls border checks at border with Germany
  • The Polish agriculture minister calls on Ukraine to halt WTO complaint
  • Polish farmers cannot pay for Russia's war says PM

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Warsaw’s secret war against Moscow’s spies: Poland’s intelligence services have gone into overdrive to combat Putin’s covert assault

The arrest last week of a ‘dangerous’ spy network in Poland is the latest in the country’s secret war against Russian intelligence since Putin’s troops attacked Ukraine.

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