Poland in Iceland

On December 6th, 2021 the Platform Culture Central Europe (PCCE) presented a concert of film music “Cinema in Music – Central European Composers for the Cinema” at Harpa Concert Hall in Reykjavik.

When on 3 May 1791 the Four-Year Sejm also called the Great Sejm adopted The Government Act of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth later known as the Constitution of 3 May, the Polish-Lithuanian state became the Europe’s first and the world’s second that passed the basic law. For its time, it was a progressive and bold legal act which initiated a number of reforms. It also constituted a crowning achievement of the centuries-old links between Poland and Lithuania.

On the occasion of the upcoming Easter, Ambassador of the Republic of Poland Gerard Pokruszyński together with the team of the Polish Embassy, would like to wish you all, good health, happiness and joy, especially during the difficult time of the pandemic.

For the German economy, the countries of the Visegrad Group are more important than China, writes the German daily Tagesspiegel Christoph in the Saturday edition.

Thirty years ago, on 15 February 1991, the presidents of Poland and the Czechoslovakia, and the prime minister of Hungary signed the Declaration on Cooperation between the Czech and Slovak Federal Republic, the Republic of Poland and the Republic of Hungary in Striving for European Integration in the castle of Visegrad, Hungary.

27 January marks the anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi Concentration and Extermination Camp of Auschwitz-Birkenau. It is also International Holocaust Remembrance Day. In order to honor victims of the holocaust, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Reykajvik would like to present letter from Ambassador Gerard Pokruszyński, online message received from Polish Ambassador to the State of Israel – Marek Magierowski and concert performed by brothers Nikodem and Mikołaj Frach.

From 5 to 8 December, 2020, the second F. Janiewicz music competion was held organized by the Polish Embassy in Reykjavik in cooperation with the Music Society F. Chopin in Iceland.

On 7th of January Ambassador Gerard Pokruszyński together with Mr. Dietrich Becker, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany, paid a visit to U.S Ambassador to Republic of Iceland – Jeffrey Ross Gunter in the new premises of the U.S Embassy in Reykjavik. Ambassadors discussed prospects for further cooperation and underlined the need to support common initiatives.

This year marks 50th anniversary of the events which took place in December 1970 in Poland