Fifteen years of Poland’s membership in the EU
On 1 May 2004, Poland, together with the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Slovenia, Cyprus and Malta, joined the EU. The 2004 enlargement was the largest in the Union’s history.
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04.2019
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Postdoctoral research grants in Poland
Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (NAWA) announces a new program dedicated to foreign researchers – The Ulam Programme 2019. Call for proposals deadline is the 23rd of April 2019.
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03.2019
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day
27 January, the anniversary of liberating the German Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau, marks International Day of Commemoration in Memory of the Victims of the Holocaust, officially proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 2005.
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01.2019
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New Daily TV Program “Focus on Poland”
To better facilitate understanding of Poland’s politics, economy, culture and many more.
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01.2019
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President Andrzej Duda and Survivors paid tribute to a Polish diplomat who saved more than 800 Jews
Polish Consul Konstanty Rokicki and his colleagues from the so-called Ładoś Group helped to save from the Holocaust more than 800 Jews who came from the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Austria, France, Slovakia and other European countries in 1942–43. At least twenty of the Survivors are still alive. On 9 October, a new tombstone honoring Consul Rokicki will be unveiled at a cemetery in Lucerne. President Andrzej Duda and several dozen Survivors, their families and the Rescuers’ descendants took part in the unveiling ceremony.
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10.2018
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79th anniversary of Soviet invasion of Poland
On 17 September 1939, Soviet troops invaded Poland fulfilling the provisions of a secret annex to the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact, signed by the Third German Reich and the Soviet Union on 23 August 1939. The Soviet-German agreement called for dividing up Poland’s territory between the two totalitarian states. The Soviet Union committed itself to supporting Germany in its military operations against Poland.
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09.2018
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Seventy-ninth anniversary of the outbreak of World War Two
Seventy-nine years ago, Germany invaded Poland and started World War Two. In the early hours of 1 September 1939, troops of the German Reich crossed the Polish-German border. Even though the 1939 defensive war ended in the defeat of the Polish armed forces, greatly outnumbered by the invader’s army, the lost battle marked the beginning of Polish troops’ engagement on all WW2 fronts.
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09.2018
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74th anniversary of the Warsaw Rising
On Wednesday, August 1, 2018, we mark the 74th anniversary of the Warsaw Rising. Every year, at 5 p.m. on this day, alarm sirens are heard on the streets of Warsaw. The city comes to a halt. In holding a minute of silence, Warsaw residents pay tribute to the fallen insurgents and those who survived.
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08.2018
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227TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE 3 MAY CONSTITUTION
The 3 May Constitution of 1791 was most probably the world’s second codified constitution. Its authorship is ascribed to King Stanisław II August, Grand Marshall of Lithuania Ignacy Potocki, and the priest and philosopher Fr. Hugo Kołłątaj.
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04.2018
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