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Poland's stock exchange largest in Eastern Europe says president

"I want WSE to become ever stronger and ever larger. I want WSE to become one of the stock exchanges which are of importance not only in Europe but also in the world," Andrzej Duda said. Leszek Szymański/PAP

Addressing a session marking the the 30th anniversary of the Warsaw Stock Exchange, President Andrzej Duda said that it was now the largest one in Eastern Europe.

Warsaw Stock Exchange has come a long way says its CEO

The president of the Warsaw Stock Exchange (WSE) has praised the rapid progress the exchange has made since it opened for business on April 16, 1991.

Poland honours Katyn Massacre victims on Remembrance Day

The massacre, which still casts a shadow over Polish-Russian relations, was a series of mass executions of Polish POW's, mainly military officers and policemen, carried out by the NKVD in April and May 1940.

Ceremonies across Poland commemorate presidential plane disaster

Ceremonies took place across in Poland on Saturday to commemorate the 11th anniversary of the Smolensk air disaster, which killed 96 people, including Poland's then president Lech Kaczyński, during a landing attempt on a military airfield in western Russia.

Mokotów celebrates 105th anniversary of joining Warsaw with live stream concert

To mark the anniversary of Mokotów disctrict joining Warsaw, 105 years ago this month, a special concert of interwar songs is being streamed online this evening, performed by Poland’s leading pre-war Polish jazz group, the Młynarski-Masecki Jazz Band.

‘Here I write different music…’ Remembering Penderecki, through his garden…

VIDEO: When not at his main home in Kraków, the sprawling grounds in Lusławice were the place where Krzysztof Penderecki spent most of his time, reportedly getting up at 6am each morning for a walk in the gardens. On the first anniversary of his death, TFN takes a look at the importance of the place to his legacy.

Happy Birthday! Kasprowy Wierch, one of Europe’s oldest cable cars, turns 85

Located in the Western Tatras and one of the longest in the world when it opened, the cable car line runs from Kuźnice, part of the town of Zakopane, to the Kasprowy Wierch peak, up to an altitude of 1,959 metres.

Song and dance group revive traditions of Lemko ethnic minority in Poland

Historically from the Beskid and Pieniny highlands around Beskid Sądecki, Beskid Niski and parts of the Pienin mountains, the Lemkos were displaced from their native lands in 1947 and resettled in Western Poland as part of ‘Operation Vistula’, the Communist authority’s forced resettlement of several ethnic minorities from the south-east of post-war Poland to the reclaimed territories in the west of the country.

V4 gives region stronger position in EU - PM

The Polish prime minister has praised the Visegrad Group, saying that it had given its members a “stronger bargaining position” in the EU while being “an advocate of regional interests.”

Poland sends Lithuania message of support to mark 30th anniversary of country’s independence

Freedom Defender’s Day, commemorated in Lithuania on the 13th January each year, honours those killed 30 years ago when unarmed civilians in Vilnius stood up to defend Lithuanian independence against Soviet forces attempting to seize control.

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History

Explosive new book reveals harrowing account of WWII Jews forced into doing the unthinkable

Published in English, ‘Warsaw Ghetto Police: The Jewish Order Service during the Nazi Occupation’ by Holocaust academic Dr Katarzyna Person is the tragic story ‘of people who are placed in an impossible situation during war and the decisions they make.’

The first report:

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Exclusive

Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

The Debrief
Rocking it! New UNESCO Geopark opens in Holy Cross Mountains
Webber's World
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