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According to the latest World Happiness Report 2017, Norway is the happiest out of 155 countries, going up from being the 4th last year, and unseating Denmark. Who wouldn’t be happy having such a view? There is also quite a significant improvement in the happiness level of Polish citizens.
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The Polish government has hired Luis Moreno-Ocampo, former chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Luis Moreno-Ocampo His task will be to attempt to “recover the wreckage of the plane that crashed near Smoleńsk” in 2010. President Lech Kaczyński, his wife and many other politicians,
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A new record fell in Thursday’s draw of the Lotto lottery. This person did not win – wrong numbers The winner who selected the lucky six numbers won as much as 36,726,210.20 zloty. The organisers haven’t yet published the information in which Polish city the coupon
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Polish Border Guard officers have arrested six members of a Polish-Russian criminal group suspected of organising transfers for foreigners from Transcaucasia through Poland to Western Europe. East to West – that’s the dream Two Russians and four Poles have been arrested in four voivodships: Mazowieckie, Podlaskie, Lubelskie and Zachodniopomorskie,
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Reports of Polish Army officers leaving the service keep popping up. Now, they have been joined by General Jerzy Gut, responsible for special forces. General Jerzy Gut During the reign of Antoni Macierewicz in the Ministry of Defense most of the top commanders have changed within the last 18 months.
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The parish priest of Glinojeck (Mazowieckie) decided to comment on women’s latest protest in the parish newsletter, comparing them to ‘Brownshirts’ marches. A snippet of the parish newsletter In the Lenten parish bulletin issue in Glinojeck priest Adam Staniszewski decidedly expressed his mind about the current events and marches
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Soldier, participant of the Warsaw Uprising, president of the Association of Warsaw Insurgents, a member of the initiative group for the Warsaw Uprising Museum, General Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski, nickname Butterfly, is celebrating his 100th birthday. Gen. Ścibor-Rylski Zbigniew Ścibor-Rylski was born on 10 March 1917 in Browki in
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Last year, the European Patent Office (EPO) granted 180 patents to Polish research institutions and companies. A year earlier, there were 151. For Poland this is a new record. The European Patent Office in Munich On the other hand, the number of patent applications sent to the EPO by individual
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PSL (Polish People’s Party) have come up with an idea for a new law. They would like that every person taking part in parliamentary elections, running whether for the Lower (Sejm) or the Upper House (Senat), be subject to psychiatric evaluation. Would any politician pass the tests? The idea
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He tried to pull the old “grandchild” trick, but the old lady turned out smarter than expected, and now the 28-year-old conman faces 8 years in prison. Don’t get conned! On Thursday Leszno duty police received a call from a citizen of Leszno reporting an attempt of
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Not so enlightened Polish MEP Janusz Korwin-Mikke on Wednesday asserted during a debate on the pay gap between men and women, that women must earn less due to their lower intelligence, weakness and smaller size. The head of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani has commenced investigation regarding the comments.
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The EU Statistical Office Eurostat has recently published a news release concerning learning foreign languages at lower secondary level. French is the second most popular language after English. English and German are the most popular foreign languages in Poland 98.6% of lower secondary school pupils – that’s more than