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To celebrate Crossing the Baltic’s first anniversary we invite our readers to follow our news highlights from the Baltic Rim. Every day we will provide you with a news-of-the-week round-up from a different country of the region via our social media. In order to keep informed follow us on Twitter and like us on Facebook. We are starting already today with the past week’s highlights from Sweden and Poland, with a mixture of Swedish-language, Polish-language, and English-language news from the region.
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by Anna-Cara Keim
Who doesn’t like a crusty and sweet cinnamon bun and a good, strong cup of coffee served in a chic, but relaxing environment?

by Mateusz Zatonski

by Kristofer Jäntti
Tucked away in one of the ugliest buildings in London, the Elephant Castle Shopping Centre, Mamuśka offers Polish home-cooking at affordable prices.  The restaurant seeks to be a focal point for London’s Polish community, offering not only authentically Polish cuisine and television, but also a décor slightly reminiscent of Poland’s Communist Milkbars’ – though without the poor service nor the inevitable stomach flu. 

Mamuska restaurant at Elephant & Castle – © Crossing the Baltic

Crossing the Baltic is very happy to announce its new co-operation with the European Student Think Tank (EST). Founded in 2010 EST has now become an extremely successful enterprise. The European Student Think Tank advocates a greater participation and involvement of students and young Europeans in European politics. Moreover, EST functions as a platform where European students can comment and react on European news, discuss European affairs with experts in the field, and where students can present their own policy ideas.

by David Grodzki

by Mateusz Zatonski

by Marta Łomża
Singer’s Warsaw is great fun. The one street that survived the two wartime uprisings and the post-war demolitions is dressed in posters and fairy lights, its normally empty ground floors turned into shops, lecture spaces and coffee shops. It is hard to make one’s way through the thick crowd. There is a dance workshop and an art exhibition, and in the evening an open air concert, the blue lights rendering the space almost unreal.

by Philipp Köker
(Note from the editors: This article is the quasi inauguration of a new series of articles on  presidents and presidential activism that we will publish in co-operation with http://www.presidentialactivism.com)

Our photographer Piotr Herbec has been travelling south from Warsaw over Poland’s wintery roads. He caught in his lense not only a glimpse of a central Poland turned winter wonderland, but also the restaurants and hotels lining the roads connecting the country’s major cities. Frequently, these are built in a style reminiscent of the traditional houses of the Polish Tatra Mountains. But located in the middle of the Great European Plain, hundreds of kilometres away from the nearest mountain range, this roadside highland architecture appears kitschy and quixotic at the same time.