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A VILLA OF LIFE

MATEUSZ WYRWICH

On a basement wall there are written surnames like inscriptions in a prison cell: generations of Polish Jews – Aszer, Gross, Hirszfeld, Keingswein, Kramsztyk, Tenebaum….Saved by the married couple Antonina and Jan Żabińscy during the Second World War from German felons who respected animals from the zoo more than people »

NEGLECTING POLAND

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

The chief of FBI did not apologize Poland for his public calling Poles as ‘accomplices’ helping the Germans during the war in murdering Jews on a large scale. He only expressed his ‘grief’ that he had mentioned our country, which was to distract everyone from the essence of his whole speech. »

PESSIMISM OF SMOLEŃSK

JAN ŻARYN

‘Two livers in the body of Przemysław Gosiewski. Gum gloves sewn inside of the deceased’ – Przemysław Dakowicz wrote media information in his journal, of which he started being aware in 2012. Besides annotations about photos of naked bodies of the supreme Polish clerks, photos being on Russian websites, from places which were under thorough control of those special services. »

PRESIDENT’S PEOPLE

ARTUR STELMASIAK

President Lech Kaczyński spread an ethos of service to Poland around himself. His Presidential Office was an excellent school for many young officials. Now they are entering great politics »

CAMPAIGN FOUNDLINGS

MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI

We are amused to observe an idea division of this campaign, imposed by election staff of Bronisław Komorowski. It must have taken a long time to find an idea to decide on an alleged clash of ‘rational’ with ‘radical’ Poles. Anyway, let’s try to explain it through examples. »

UNION WITHOUT CITIZENS?

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

‘One of us’ is an European Citizen Initiative which was supported by over 1.8. million Europeans. It was established according to a suitable writing of the slimmed euro-constitution, that is, the Lisbon Treaty, whose purpose was to bring the European Union closer to citizens. »

THE FIRST SALVO IN THIS WAR?

Mateusz Wyrwich talks with the parliamentarian Antoni Macierewicz – the chairperson of the Parliamentary Team for Investigation of the Causes for the Tu-154M catastrophe on 10 April 2010

CHRISTMAS PRESENTS

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

Easter, that is, Feast of Lord’s Resurrection, is the most important event in the Christian calendar. Many people are trying to prove more importance of Christmas than Easter, when we give one another presents. However, although, not so much in Poland, but in other countries, during Easter time there is also a custom of giving one another gifts. »

THE CIVIL PLATFORM PARTY ON THE LAND OF KANGAROOS

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

‘If the Russians are willing for a war, then we must pack our things and leave for Australia’ – these are words said by a founder of the Civil Platform party Andrzej Olechowski, who was a Foreign Affairs minister of Poland. »

AN EASILY GRANTED OSCAR REWARD

ALINA CZERNIAKOWSKA

A few years ago, I received a text from ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ under a significant title ‘Thank you for life’, in which Mrs. Renata Zajdman writes that for nearly half a century had been looking for the Czerniakowski family, in order to ‘thank for saving my life’. »

SUNDAYS AS A DAY OFF

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

In the beginning of March in the European Parliament in Brussels there was a meeting of supporters of the European Alliance for the sake of the Sunday as a day off (European Sunday Alliance). »

UNITY OF THE UNION

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

‘I would like Putin to be in a team with me’ – these are words of the prime minister of Italy Matteo Renzi before the announcement of his visit to Russia. We observe that another country is breaching the so-called European solidarity. In response to the Russian expansion onto Ukraine, the European Union imposed sanctions on Russia, intending to isolate it. »

WE WILL PAY FOR CIA

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Rejection of the government’s appeal from a verdict acknowledging human rights breach in relation to CIA prisoners by the Tribunal in Strasburg, put Poland in a difficult situation. »

CATHOLIC SCHOOLS AGAINST THE ‘DAY-AFTER’ PILL

On 17 February 2015 the Management Board of Catholic Schools addressed an open letter to health minister Bartosz Arłukowicz, expressing an opposition against introducing the ‘day-after’ pill in sale without a prescription. We publish the whole text of the protest. »

A HEAD IN SAND

MIROSŁAW PIOTROWSKI

Where is Tusk? This question is heard more and more frequently not only in the European Parliament, but is formulated on pages of foreign newspapers. It concerns two most important events on which the European Union is concentrated – the so-called grexit, that is, a possibility of leaving the community by Greece and the war in Ukraine. »

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