Polish airports served 45,7 million passengers in 2018, a 14% of increase compared to 2017 and an all-time high. The national flag carrier, LOT Polish Airlines carried almost two million passengers more than in 2017, with an impressive 8,7 million passengers served in 2018. According to aviation market experts, 2019 is expected to be another record year for LOT both in terms of cargo and passenger traffic.

Poland’s finance ministry announced on Tuesday that it expects the economy to grow by 4 per cent this year which is faster than 3.8 per cent growth assumed for the 2019 budget, approved by parliament earlier this year.

We have written about a few ways to live through Lent and prepare oneself for Easter. Finally, the time has come to experience the most important Christian holiday itself.

March 31 started the 2019 summer season in general aviation. Pilots, cabin crews and ground personnel of Polish LOT Airlines are getting ready to handle a whooping 75 thousands of scheduled flights on domestic, european and transcontinental routes. Until the end of the year, lot is expected to serve as many as 10 million passengers.

The creeping secularization of Christian holidays is often illustrated by how "Happy Holidays" replaced "Merry Christmas" on gift cards and Coca-Cola's Santa elbowed St. Nicholaus away from the scene. Few people pay attention to what is happening to Easter.

“French firefighters have won an hours-long battle to save the main structure of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, after a colossal fire caused the spire of the historic edifice to crash to the ground and wiped out centuries of heritage.” - Telegraph UK

The National Museum in Krakow was established by a resolution of the Krakow City Council on 7 October 1879, as the first national museum institution at a time when the Polish people were deprived of their own statehood and country, which had been appropriated by the partitioning powers.

Plans to build the biggest concert hall in Poland in Warsaw’s Praga district have been given the green light, with the project expecting to be completed by 2023. The plans to build the 1,850-seat concert hall will fulfil the need of the Sinfonia Varsovia – the Polish symphony orchestra that was formed in 1984 and has been without a home ever since.

The 1940 Katyń Massacre was for decades "forbidden knowledge" in Poland. Everybody knew that the Russian communists had killed around 25 000 Polish POWs in one of the largest massacres and war crimes of the Second World War. As long as Poland was ruled from Moscow, it was impossible to blame anyone else than the German Nazis for the massacre.

The advisor to the European Union’s top court announced this week that Poland failed to uphold the independence of the Supreme Court, and broke EU law. A final judgement is still pending, but Advocate General Evgeni Tanchev announced in a statement:

Polish oil company PKN Orlen submitted an offer on Thursday to provide financing for the troubled newspaper distributor Ruch, with the intention of taking it over, the state-run oil company’s chief executive said.

Impressionism was a trend in European culture – later also in American culture – that was initiated by painters in Paris and which lasted several decades during the period around the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Indeed they were given pussies from pussy willows to swallow after coming back home from the mass on Palm Sunday, which was meant to keep children strong and healthy. But there is much more to the symbolism of palms on that day than a few rustic superstitions.

“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” The words of Albert Einstein. And whether or not God chooses to remain anonymous, the European Commission Vice-President, Frans Timmermans, does not. He was hitting back on Sunday at accusations of political bias from Poland's government, as he campaigned as a candidate for May's European elections

Praga – the ugly, beautiful side of Warsaw is located on the “other side” (the right bank) of the Vistula River. It attracts its fans with old, cobblestone streets and historic architecture, little communist-style “bary mleczne” (milk bars) and a cool, alternative nightlife, as well as the unpretentious nature of its residents. 

As the life around is waking up with a fresh boost, the pro-life movement in Poland also comes back with new power to stand against the "culture of death".

The British press is enthusiastically reporting that Poland is one step closer to leaving the European Union, but it’s just not true.

The European Commission has continued its crusade against Poland’s attempts at reforming its domestic judicial system, announcing new legal action to be taken against Poland. The EC also threatened Romania, telling the nation to refrain from pardoning corrupt politicians.