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On the make

15 October 2014

Warsaw-based design studio Thisispaper was born out of an idea to promote lasting and well-crafted design in Poland. Monocle meets the team.

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My house is your house

18 October 2018

On an area of parkland in central Warsaw stands a small settlement of wooden Finnish homes. A legacy of postwar hardship, these days they stand as a striking symbol of peace and friendship.

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Josh Fehnert reporting from Warsaw: With its flourishing food, design and cultural scenes and a growing sense of self-worth, the Polish capital is finally shaking off the spectre of communism and finding that its groove has…

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Shaping the city

17 May 2019

Warsaw’s graphic-design industry has emerged from the 1990s, inspired by a new sense of identity.

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Pole new world

16 September 2010

Relations with Russia are improving, it escaped the economic crisis and young entrepreneurs are returning with new ideas and cash. Monocle reports on how Poland, despite the odds, became the European nation to watch.

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Full steam ahead

21 June 2018

Finland’s ambassador to Poland can take the heat, whether relaxing in her sauna or building relations with regional leaders.

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The new brigade

15 October 2014

A fresh generation is falling in love with Mokotow’s modernist architecture and community spirit, giving it a visible sense of vibrancy in the process.

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Pole position

17 January 2013

His cosmopolitan background and bullish enthusiasm for the EU have made Poland’s foreign minister a key voice in European politics. Now Radek Sikorski is urging Europe to learn the hard lessons of its own history.

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Hard news

9 September 2015

‘Gazeta Wyborcza’, Poland’s leading daily newspaper, is a liberal publication that has been making its voice heard in the country since 1989. Monocle got the scoop on how it negotiates tradition and promotes a democratic…

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Warsaw: Pole position

6 August 2015

Warsaw’s dour-from-afar image is dispelling as a new generation of makers, restaurateurs and start-ups help to redefine Poland’s capital.

Radio

Monocle on Design - Extra: Warsaw’s graphic past

23 May 2019

Can you understand a country by looking at its graphic-design industry? Warsaw underwent a dramatic swing from communism in the 1980s to a fascination with capitalism in the 1990s. Today the city’s identity is striking more…

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Cities

13 August 2018

Animal welfare in Montréal, Munich reaches for the sky, tourism in Slovenia that’s the bee’s knees and Warsaw city councillor Jan Spiewak has his say.

Radio

The Menu - Reviving Warsaw's milk bars

21 June 2013

We discuss the latest innovations in restaurant and bar design, visit Warsaw’s traditional milk bars experiencing a revival and travel to Barcelona to meet some of the best roasters in Catalonia.

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Diplomacy

14 April 2015

The EU's new foreign-affairs chief rings the changes and Ukraine's ambassador to Poland waxes lyrical on his warm Warsaw welcome.

Radio

The Foreign Desk - Warsaw Security Forum: Part 2

15 October 2022

In the second of our special episodes recorded at the Warsaw Security Forum, Andrew Mueller sits down with Angela Merkel’s former foreign policy advisor, Belarus’s opposition leader and Luxembourg’s deputy prime minister…

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Europe

20 January 2015

The rise of the (well-dressed) left in Spain, religious furore in Austria and making tracks in Warsaw.