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16th September 2013 Warsaw, Poland

Martin Oxley, Head, UKTI Poland

by Martin Oxley

Director of UKTI Warsaw

The Last Night of the Proms – a GREAT Finale to a GREAT Bus Tour of Poland

An action packed day taking us from the main square in Poznan to Wroclaw and on to Katowice and then Krakow. A GREAT Bus Tour led by our two GREAT Minis. 10 000 kms and over 20 GREAT cities – a GREAT Polish welcome in each and so many business discussions. Krakow, historic capital of […]

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25th July 2013 Warsaw, Poland

Martin Oxley, Head, UKTI Poland

by Martin Oxley

Director of UKTI Warsaw

A GREAT Mini Day out in Kraków

An early start and a quick walk around Kraków’s main square. Beautiful morning and a GREAT day ahead. The Ambassador’s in town for a series of meetings focused on the GREAT British Polish relationship. The main message coming out of a number of pretty high level meetings was threefold: Kraków is a GREAT tourist destination […]

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24th July 2013 Warsaw, Poland

Martin Oxley, Head, UKTI Poland

by Martin Oxley

Director of UKTI Warsaw

GREAT Mini and all that Slag

Bet you are all wondering what all this is about then? Transport infrastructure in Emerging is undergoing a revolution. All the countries in the region are attracting lots of business – that’s easy to understand as there are 100 million consumers in this part of the world. What’s really needed is roads and rail infrastructure. […]

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8th June 2012 Dublin, Ireland

Robin Barnett

by Robin Barnett

Former Ambassador to Ireland, Dublin

Time for non football fans to take a holiday

Euro2012 fever is upon us. I am writing this from Krakow, where a large and enthusiastic crowd is watching the England team’s open training session at the Hutnik stadium in Nowa Huta. They are great Ambassadors for their country. It is a far cry from my first visit here in 1983 during John Paul II’s […]

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31st January 2012 Dublin, Ireland

Robin Barnett

by Robin Barnett

Former Ambassador to Ireland, Dublin

Freezing in Kraków

Winter has arrived with a vengeance! But that is no reason to stop travelling around the regions which are one of the engines of Polish growth. Krakow is well known already to large numbers of British tourists. Fewer people know how many UK companies already take advantage of the skilled workforce in the region and […]

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