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Polish culture minister regrets EBU’s decision on Eurovision contest

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Poland's culture minister has expressed his disappointment with the decision of the Eurovision Song Contest's organisers who had announced talks with Britain to hold the next year's event instead of Ukraine due to the war in the country.

Polish paintings from 1939 New York Fair to return to Poland

Historical paintings commissioned for the Polish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair will come back to Poland after 83 years.

Painting looted during WWII returns to Wrocław museum

An oil painting lost during World War Two and restored nearly 80 years later, owing to a huge collective effort by the museum's staff and the Polish Culture Ministry, has returned to the National Museum in Wrocław, western Poland.

Opposition MPs accuse ruling party of funding nationalists

Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party is using public funds to subsidise a nationalist organisation that wants the country out of the EU, two opposition MPs have claimed.

Poland's ruling party leader reveals new sports minister

An MP who quit one of the junior parties in Poland’s United Right governing coalition after disagreements over government economic policy has been appointed as the head of the new sports ministry.

Missing WWII artwork found in old attic given to National Museum in Warsaw

Before the war, 'Under the Birches' by Finnish painter Albert Edelfelt had hung on the wall of an old aristocratic residence in the central village of Spała.

Camerimage’s stunning new European Film Centre to be built in Toruń

Sneak-peek images of the design show a large golden frog in front of one of the glass buildings, a symbol of the Energa Camerimage Festival and the name of its top award. It will also feature a festival centre, a market hall (a trade fair space for film products and technologies), a museum and an art gallery, cinemas, an education centre and a film studio.

Legendary Polish soprano dies at 91

Polish and international opera star Teresa Żylis-Gara, one of the most celebrated sopranos of our time, has died at the age of 91.

No media pluralism under previous gov't, minister says

A government minister has said that before Law and Justice took office in 2015 there was little or no media pluralism or freedom in Poland.

Lost artworks returned to collection of Polish museum

Several works of art by Michal Elwiro Andriolli and a painting by Teodor Axentowicz, lost during WWII, have made their way to the collection of the National Museum in Warsaw.

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New bi-lingual book hailed as ‘love letter’ to one of Warsaw’s quirkiest streets

Laying bare the secrets and the stories behind Warsaw’s Hoża street, the new Polish-English language book is set to achieve cult status for its charming exploration of the city’s hidden side.

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Four tonnes of Nazi gold found in buried 18th century palace canister, say WWII treasure hunters

Measuring between 1.3 to 1.5 metres long and 50cm in depth, the cylindrical metal canister was found in the conservatory of an 18th century palace used by Hitler’s SS as a brothel.

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