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Kamil Kluczynski

Stories from Kamil Kluczynski

02 Poland´s capital under water
Chaos Continues in Poland
Only a month after the tragic death of Lech Kaczynski, the floods have crippled the country with no one in charge
Kamil Kluczynski
01/07/2010

Only a month after the tragic death of Lech Kaczynski, Poland is once again in chaos. In the seemingly endless rain showers throughout the months of May and June rivers throughout the country have overflowed their banks. In their wake, villages and parts of cities have been submerged and thousands left homeless.

What’s Next?
Aftermath of tragedy: solidarity and hope for a new beginning
Kamil Kluczynski
01/05/2010

What happened on Apr. 10 was a shock, but what followed was just as much of a surprise. That morning, a Polish Tupolev Tu-154 military airplane carrying the heads of state crashed into a forest, just short of the Smolensk airport runway. Russia’s reaction to the incident could potentially help to heal an open wound; one that has haunted relations between the two nations for a very long time.

02 Lech and Maria Kacynski funeral
Poland Mourns
Thousands lined the street to pay their final respects to the fallen president
Kamil Kluczynski
01/05/2010

It was an ordinary Saturday morning; I woke up at around eight and made my way out of bed to make myself some breakfast. I turned the computer on to listen to some music as I prepared for my day. I had a football match in a few hours.

My phone rang with an SMS. It was from Ammar, a friend of mine from school, it read “the Polish President has died in a plane crash.”

New EU Workers Still Wait
Austria and Germany are the only two countries maintaining restrictions on work permits for citizens from Central Europe
Kamil Kluczynski
01/03/2010

Did you find a job? Great. Do you have all the necessary papers to apply? Wonderful. Are you an Austrian? No? Oh, see now you went a step too far, sorry. The remnants of the former Iron Curtain seem to linger in central Europe. While the rest of the European Union has eliminated its labor restrictions, Austria, one of only two remaining nations, has chosen instead to extend them.

This is a story that continues to be told by those coming from the former Eastern Bloc. The search for a job has been greatly hindered by the extension of labor restrictions in Austria, which require eastern EU nationals to apply for work permits.

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