Slawek Szefs

The Olympic torch is having a troubled world tour with protests growing louder over China's human rights record in Tibet. There's no serious talk of an Olympic games…

Relations between Poland and Russia are best described as fragile. Apart from the legacy of Soviet times there are trade disputes and, right now, big differences over…

Britain and Ireland continue to be magnets for job seekers from Poland. Widespread stories of interesting work coupled with splendid salaries have been a temptation hard…

Just days from a European Union summit which is meant to re-launch Europe's much delayed constitutional treaty, Poland is threatening to spoil the party. Warsaw is…

Visitors to the town of Lezajsk in south eastern Poland these days are taken on a sentimental journey into the past. Some 2 000 Chassidic Jews from all over the world have…

Information leaked from an unpublished report on Poland's recently abolished military intelligence service suggests that over a hundred of its agents attempted to take…

25 years ago, on a snowy Sunday morning, Poles woke up to an entirely new reality; martial law - imposed by the Communist authorities in an attempt to halt the pro…

A second round of local elections in Poland has finalised the shape of governments for the coming four years. The vote saw the governing conservatives lose the Warsaw…

The assassination eight years ago of Poland's National Police Chief Marek Papala shocked the country. Papala was shot in the head and killed as he was getting out of a car…

A political scandal is rocking Poland. It involves recordings made in secret and aired on an independent TV station. On the recording a high ranking politician from the…