Macquarie agrees US$1.3b sale of Poland’s Gdansk port terminal
A consortium of investors including Poland’s sovereign wealth fund PFR has agreed to buy the country’s largest container terminal in Gdansk from the infrastructure fund of Australia’s Macquarie in a...
View ArticlePoland wants to export more to China: PM
The Polish head of government was speaking ahead of talks with his Chinese counterpart Li Keqiang on the sidelines of the summit in Dubrovnik, southern Croatia. Morawiecki told a news conference before...
View ArticleMacquarie agrees US$1.3b sale of Poland’s Gdansk port terminal
A consortium of investors including Poland’s sovereign wealth fund PFR has agreed to buy the country’s largest container terminal in Gdansk from the infrastructure fund of Australia’s Macquarie in a...
View ArticleGoogle Campus hosts startup competitions
Located on the eastern edge of the soon-to-be-opened Koneser urban renewal scheme in Praga, Campus Warsaw recently hosted three major startup events. Poland Today was delighted to support all three –...
View ArticleBusiness flourishes as Angola revitalises historic railroad
In the heart of mineral rich southern Africa, mining companies have several options to get their cargo to port – traditionally they would look eastwards to Dar es Salaam, Beira or Durban on the Indian...
View ArticleMillion-car electric dream spurs smoggy Poland to grasp at Elon Musk
Maciej Chmielinski weaved his electric compact BMW, quiet as a whisper, through the noisy Warsaw traffic – a rare sight among the growling delivery trucks and gas guzzlers that tainted the spring...
View ArticleEU court rules against Brussels on Polish retail tax
The EU General Court has decided that “the Polish progressive tax on the retail sector was incorrectly classified as state aid by the EU Commission,” the press service of the Court of Justice of the...
View ArticleMacquarie agrees US$1.3b sale of Poland’s Gdansk port terminal
A consortium of investors including Poland’s sovereign wealth fund PFR has agreed to buy the country’s largest container terminal in Gdansk from the infrastructure fund of Australia’s Macquarie in a...
View ArticleBelarus partially resumes oil transit towards Poland
MINSK: Belarus state energy company Belneftekhim said on Sunday it had partially resumed oil transit towards Poland and that its daily Western-bound transit plan for June was 65,000 tonnes. Belarus has...
View ArticleTunnel vision: Peter Vesterbacka and his €15bn plan for Northern Europe
First, Peter Vesterbacka (of Angry Birds fame) announced he would build the world’s longest tunnel under the Gulf of Finland. Next came the news of a high-speed arctic railway between Finland and...
View ArticleHow one Polish company is proving disability is no handicap when it comes to...
This edition of Business Planet goes to Katowice, Poland for a very special company, a social enterprise where helping people is as important as the bottom line. Today, 10% of European companies are...
View ArticlePoland’s ruling right-wing PiS party tops in EU polls
Poland’s governing right-wing Law and Justice party (PiS) won European elections, near-complete official results showed on Monday, with its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski urging a wider victory in the...
View ArticleBrain drain claimed 1.7 million youths. So this country is scrapping its...
Being young and Polish has never been this lucrative. A new law that comes into effect in Poland this week will scrap income tax for roughly 2 million young workers. It’s an attempt by the government...
View ArticleEurope’s brain drain is getting worse — so some countries are scrapping...
Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries are proposing radical tax incentives for young people, as part of a drive to stem the flow of skilled workers to Western EU states. A so-called ‘brain...
View ArticleCrude steel production in July down by 3.6% y/y
In July crude steel production in Poland amounted to 780,000 tons, which means a decrease of 3.6 percent y/y, according to the data from the World Steel Association. Between January and July,...
View ArticleZelensky promises businessmen in Poland to protect investment
“I am personally ready to protect all investments. We have already prepared more than 70 draft laws to reform the law enforcement and judicial systems. There are many bills to improve the investment...
View ArticleHas Poland’s Government Become a Threat to Business?
An accusation had been made against Przemyslaw Krych, and, at about 9 on the morning of Dec. 19, 2017, he was arrested at his home in Warsaw. The financier was sure there had been a misunderstanding,...
View ArticleHow Poland’s ‘golden age’ of economic growth is going unreported
During the current global economic slow-down, Poland stands out as a European growth champion. With an uninterrupted pace of high growth averaging 4.2% per annum between 1992-2019, Poland is steadily...
View ArticlePoland says EU has averted an energy tragedy by limiting Russian gas supplies...
The decision by the top court in the EU to curb Russian energy firm Gazprom’s use of the Opal gas pipeline, which links Nord Stream to Germany, has saved Poland from a ‘tragic’ gas shortage, its state...
View ArticleBoom on Poland’s real estate market continues
Statistics and conclusions from numerous analyses of Polish commercial property cannot be wrong. Clearly, over the last decade, we have witnessed a huge transformation of the sector in Poland, creating...
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