Archive for the Poland Category

Poland: they have stollen 4 WW2 tanks from the military training ground

Posted on February 12, 2009 by admin

A few men have stolen 4 WW2 T-34 tanks (made in USSR) from a military training ground of a Polish army. Those 4 old wrecked famous WW2 soviet tanks were used as a training targets in the military training ground in Jagodne. They have illegally entered military area with big lorries with the carriages and [...]

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Anti piracy regulations affects one of the Polish ISPs

Posted on February 11, 2009 by admin

As TVN24.pl informed yesterday, the one of the leading ISPs in Warsaw – Aster -  that has just added an anti piracy paragraph to the customer contracts signed with its customers, has been affected in the massive loss of them. Changing the agreement gave the customers an extra occasion to cancel the contract without suffering [...]

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Will Poland go broke?

Posted on February 5, 2009 by admin

According to the website of the leading Polish TV news channel TVN24 and German newspaper Die Welt, Central European countries and new members of EU are threaten by the possible economical crush. Die Welt points out the dangers of the strategy of the Polish government to relief the effects of the economical crisis. In fact, [...]

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Internet access in Lodz and surroundings

Posted on February 3, 2009 by admin

Reading the articles that waited to be opened for the last couple of days I have found the one published by the local office of Gazeta.pl (website of the leading Polish newspaper) about the plans of the local Lodz authorities to connect to the Internet all of the households in Lodz and surrounding towns and [...]

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We want Euro, well, half of us at least

Posted on January 27, 2009 by admin

According to website of TVN24 news channel – tvn24.pl – 48 percent of Polish citizens want to pay in Euro. Most of them expects Euro to be introduced in the next 3 – 4 years. Over half of half of the entire population (52 percent) is of the opinion that introduction of Euro will be [...]

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Kids of former emigrants have problems in school after return to Poland.

Posted on January 26, 2009 by admin

According to Onet.pl, kids of the former Polish emigrants have problems in school due to the differences in the education policy in Poland and in the UK and Ireland. Kids that left Polish schools couple of years ago, had to get used to the completely different system in UK and Ireland, and now, they have [...]

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MacBooks are cheaper in Poland due to the weak Polish Zloty

Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin

Usually Apple products are realtively more expensive in Poland. Last may 2008, on my Polish blog I compared the prices of MacBooks here in Poland and in Ireland. The difirences in prices were clearly visible at that time. At present, due to the waekness of Polish Zloty (PLN) the prices of new unibody MacBooks are [...]

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Ryanair cuts more connections from Poland

Posted on January 23, 2009 by admin

Ryanair is going to cut more connections from Poland. According to TVN24.pl 12 connections from 6 Polish cities are to be closed. Ryanair cuts the connections from Gdansk to Bristol and Liverpool, from Szczecin to Bristol, Birmingham, Luton and Liverpool, from Lodz to Liverpool, East Midlands and Shannon, from Poznan to East Midlands, from Wroclaw [...]

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British Barclays is worth less than Polish PKO BP!

Posted on January 22, 2009 by admin

The markets are still on crisis, every rumor can destroy the worth of each company, especially bank. That has happened to Barclays. The rumor that the British bank will need another injection of pubilc money effected the fall of the value of the symbol of British banking. The share of Barclays is now worth of [...]

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Reuters is making reportage about Dell and Lodz

Posted on January 21, 2009 by admin

One of the oldest news agencies – Routers – is making a reportage about Dell in Lodz (Poland), its movement from Limerick to the second biggest city in Poland (or third now). According to Gazeta.pl, Routers’ journalist went first to Warsaw to the Dell HQs in Poland to find out why Dell chose Poland and [...]

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