In the months before EU enlargement in 2004, right wing British newspapers were hysterically predicting that the country would be overrun with migrants from Eastern Europe - especially from Poland - willing to work for next to nothing. The UK, Sweden and...
China took a bow on the world stage in the summer of 2008, as the Olympic Games were held in Beijing. The country's performance was reliant on an army of stagehands who had toiled to prepare the scenery, lighting and props. Around 30,000 labourers are ...
Prince William County in Virginia is one of the highest-income counties in the United States, but it has seen thousands of home foreclosures since the credit crunch started to bite in 2007. In June 2008, Piotr Malecki and writer Tomasz Zalewski went in ...
On December 30th, 2008, a group of young men took an oath and became fully-fledged soldiers in the Polish army. Like generations before them, they would have felt a mix of pride and nervousness as they prepared to serve their country. But as they ...
The City boomed and now the City is bust. Until the final quarter of 2008, the British economy had seen over ten years of continuous expansion led by an unfettered financial services sector. Deregulation encouraged 479 foreign banks to set up offices in ...
I remember from my childhood the glory days of the Peace Race, a popular cycling event in which socialist Poland competed against our neighbouring friendly states. Each year the towns would empty as everybody found a television to watch our brave ...
Jacek Serkiew has been a postman for 40 years. As he makes his daily journey around the Polish town of Piaseczno, he is among friends. Meeting people is the best part of the job, he says. Every morning he carefully sorts through the letters in his ...
Ziemowit Howadek - Ziemek to his friends - lives a pretty ordinary life. He works as an IT specialist for a bank in Poznan, attends church and drives a Lada. But each year, in the week before Easter, Ziemek is nailed to a cross and crucified in front ...
Public House An establishment providing alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises. The traditional pub is an establishment found primarily in Britain and regions of British influence. English common law early imposed social responsibilities ...
Ireland is famous for its love of horses and the thoroughbreds raised on its verdant hills. During the boom years, when high-tech companies flocked to the "Celtic Tiger" and the construction industry overdosed on cheap loans, pet horses became a ...
A date has been set for the beatification of Pope John Paul II, who died in 2005 after an almost 27-year-long papacy. Vast crowds of pilgrims are expected in Rome on 1 May 2011 to witness the ceremony, performed by the current pope Benedict XVI, ...
In America, meat is big business. The meat and poultry industry is the largest sector of US agriculture, grossing an impressive US $ 155 billion in 2009 and employing a total of some 6.2 million people in companies involved in meat production along with ...
Call centre consultants are like doctors - they need to get under the client's skin to find out the most effective way of selling a product or getting valuable feedback. Call centre work is readily available and in most cases doesn't require any ...
Wika Szmyt is not your typical grandmother. 'Maturity has its charm' she says, smiling elegantly but a little reserved. 'Some people already know what they want when they are 20 while others grow up for longer. I think that I am in the second ...
About half a million people commute into Warsaw, the Polish capital, from surrounding towns and villages every day. For a city of 1.7 million, this constitutes a huge daily ebb and flow of workers, some of whom have to rise in the early hours to ...
During the Tour de France, the roads and byways of the country are lined with thousands of keen spectators. But it's not necessarily the riders they have come to see. The so-called Caravan Pubicitaire is the main draw for approximately 39% of all ...