Michal Kubicki

In Poland, fans and politicians are celebrating what will surely prove to be a major event for the nation - the European Football Championship in 2012. Poland and Ukraine…

Music lovers will remember the unprecedented commercial success, just over ten years ago, of Henryk Mikolaj Gorecki's Third Symphony. Now this Polish composer is again in…

Seventy years ago, on March 29th 1937, Polish composer Karol Szymanowski died in Lausanne, Switzerland. But this year also marks the 125th anniversary of his birth and the…

The European Union is celebrating its half century. It was fifty years ago that the treaty of Rome was signed by six countries who wanted to break down some trade barriers…

The internationally-renowned Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapuscinski died in a Warsaw hospital on January 23, at the age of 74. He was probably Poland's best…

The resignation of the newly appointed archbishop of Warsaw, Stanislaw Wielgus, two days after he admitted that he'd collaborated with the communist secret services and…

As millions of Catholics around the world commemorated the first anniversary of Pope John Paul II's death earlier this month, in his native Poland the atmosphere was very…

Poland's Krystian Zimerman, one of the greatest living pianists, turned fifty last week. When Zimerman entered the Warsaw Chopin Competition in 1975 he was an unknown 19…

The latest highlight on Poland's music scene took place in the southern city of Krakow. It was a concert in the city's Philharmonic Hall by the famous Kronos Quartet from…

Poland's main opposition parties were celebrating this week following gains in local government elections. But changes at the national level do not seem likely with the…