Hundreds in Warsaw bid farewell to filmmaker Andrzej Wajda

Edit Orange County Register 18 Oct 2016
Hundreds in Warsaw bid farewell to filmmaker Andrzej Wajda. Associated Press - 18 October 2016 13.17-04.00. News Topics. Arts and entertainment, General news, Movies, Entertainment, Obituaries, Government and politics. People, Places and Companies. Andrzej Wajda, Aleksander Kwasniewski, Bronislaw Komorowski, Poland, Warsaw. Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. All rights reserved ... ....

Noteworthy: Sports news in briefs

Edit Times Union 18 Oct 2016
Hopkins (55-7-2, 32 KOs) hasn't fought since November 2014, when Sergey Kovalev took his two light heavyweight title belts with a one-sided decision. Smith (21-1, 18 KOs) is a little-known light heavyweight contender coming off an impressive first-round stoppage victory over Andrzej Fonfara ... ....

Polish President Andrzej Duda to Visit Indonesia Next Year

Edit Jakarta Globe 18 Oct 2016
Poland President Andrzej Duda plans to make visit Indonesia in 2017 in order to bolster bilateral cooperation between the two countries, a minister said last week ... ....

Welcome to the flash furnace (KGHM Polska Miedz SA)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
(Source. KGHM Polska Miedz SA) ... 'It's a very important day for us. It's a giant technological leap ... It's not only a great advancement for the smelter, but also an enormous change for the region,'said Andrzej Szydło, Chief Director of the Głogów Copper Smelter/Refinery ... (noodl....

Decision makers of financial sector met again

Edit Warsaw Business Journal 18 Oct 2016
Mariusz Grendowicz (Chairman of the Advisory Board of Banking Forum), Artur Olech (Chairman of the Advisory Board of Insurance Forum), Joao Bras Jorge (President of the Management Board, Bank Millennium), Sławomir Sikora (President of the Management Board, Bank Citi Handlowy), Andrzej Kopyrski (Vice-President of the Management Board, Bank Pekao), ......

'The Alien' retires as 'The Executioner' returns for finale fight

Edit WBN 18 Oct 2016
The bout will take place Saturday, December 17 and will be televised live on HBO World Championship Boxing® ... PT ... Joe Smith Jr., who was born in 1989, nearly three years after Hopkins had his first fight, is coming off the victory of his career, delivering a brutal first-round knockout of established contender Andrzej Fonfara in June and earning the WBC International Light Heavyweight Championship ... " ... Dec ... Hopkins vs ... ET/PT ... ....

Flashback: Man of Iron - " Andrzej Wajda's 1981 film on the Polish Solidarity strike

Edit Topix 17 Oct 2016
Polish director Andrzej Wajda died recently, at the age of 90, leaving behind a legacy of acclaimed films inspired by his country's turbulent history. It is necessary to do some research before watching Wajda's classic of political cinema ... ....

Bernard Hopkins says Dec. 17 fight vs Smith is his last

Edit The Miami Herald 17 Oct 2016
Smith (21-1, 18 KOs) is a little-known light heavyweight contender coming off an impressive first-round stoppage victory over Andrzej Fonfara. ....

New Polish Regulator Backs Plan to Cut Costs of Foreign-Loan Fix

Edit Bloomberg 17 Oct 2016
Poland’s new chief financial regulator backed central bank plans to reduce the cost of legislation forcing lenders to return to clients some fees on their foreign-currency loans ... The latest legislation, put forward by President Andrzej Duda, envisages banks compensating customers for “excessive” spreads on currency transactions. Lawmakers will begin deliberating on the bill on Wednesday ... Before it's here, it's on the Bloomberg Terminal....

Prime Minister Beata Szydło: We are starting the implementation of the Mieszkanie Plus Programme. We are launching the pilot... (Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland)

Edit Public Technologies 17 Oct 2016
(Source. Chancellery of the Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland). Fulfilling dreams of an average Polish family of own flat ... They are members of local governments - said Beata Szydło ... Prime Minister Beata Szydło was accompanied by the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development and Finance, Mateusz Morawiecki as well as by the Minister of Infrastructure and Construction, Andrzej Adamczyk and Mayor of Katowice, Marcin Krupa....

Rome Film Festival salutes Andrzej Wajda with his final film, 'Afterimage'

Edit Daily Press 16 Oct 2016
A melancholy round of applause greeted the first Rome Film Festival screening on Friday of “Afterimage,” the stark, solemn final film directed by the Polish master Andrzej Wajda. Before his death on Sunday at the age of 90, Wajda had been expected to attend the festival and participate in a conversation ... ....

Central European nations oppose Russian-German gas pipeline

Edit Topix 16 Oct 2016
President Andrzej Duda described the Nord Stream 2 project, which would bypass traditional transit pipelines in Ukraine and Slovakia, as having "no economic justification," describing it as a political project implemented by Gazprom on behalf of Russia ... ....

4 EU states united in rejecting pipeline

Edit Arkansas Online 16 Oct 2016
President Andrzej Duda described the Nord Stream 2 project, which would bypass traditional transit pipelines in Ukraine and Slovakia, as having “no economic justification,” describing it as a political project implemented by Gazprom on behalf of Russia ... In the past year, they have opposed an EU plan to impose obligatory migrant quotas on member states ... ....
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