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World at Waste? Poland on the Case

World at Waste? Poland on the Case TFN

Agata Frankiewicz is on a mission. Listed as one of the 'Top 50 boldest women changing the world for better' in 2018, Agata is working to connect corporations wasting gigantic amounts of materials each year with creators and artists who spin beautiful products from things others throw away.

Toshiba to open production plant in western Poland in 2020

Japanese firm Toshiba Carrier Corporation will open its first European production and distribution plant in 2020 in Gniezno, western Poland, worth over PLN 100 mln (EUR 23.5 mln), the Polish Investment and Trade Agency (PAIH) told PAP on Tuesday.

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Art & Culture

Tokarczuk teams up with illustrator Joanna Concejo for latest book described as ‘an experiment with form’

The picture book which was first published in Polish in 2017 as ‘Zagubiona dusza’ has now been translated into English under the title ‘The Lost Soul’.

The first report:

  • Polish PM voices a clear stance on EU strategic autonomy at EU summit
  • Polish ski-jumper takes gold in normal hill competition
  • Covid crisis is an economic opportunity for Poland, PM says
  • Opposition presents pandemic aid programme
  • Ruling Law and Justice continues to have highest voter support - poll

Exclusive

‘I grew up in death camp house’: Extraordinary story of women born in Auschwitz and who has lived there ever since

Once asked to draw the view from her bedroom window for homework, Anna Odi couldn’t decide whether to draw the crematorium or the gallows where Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Hoess was executed. She told TFN: “I think I am a hostage to the stories of people who experienced this hell. I am continuing what my parents started, to be a witness. Like my parents, I owe it to the victims.”

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