Poland’s opposition national-conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party sees opposing the Green Deal as one of its goals at the forthcoming election to the European Parliament, party chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said at a party convention. The Green Deal is a threat to Poland’s agriculture, says Kaczynski, who has also announced that PiS will block…
An agreement has been signed with South Korea to purchase 72 Chunmoo rocket artillery units and several thousand tactical guided missiles. Most of the systems will be built in Poland itself. The deal, valued at $1.6 billion (6.4 billion zloty), came after Poland ordered 218 launchers from South Korean defence firm Hanwha Aerospace at the…
Szymon Holownia, the speaker of parliament, claims that he will ignore an order by the Constitutional Tribunal (TK) to halt proceedings to put central bank governor Adam Glapinski on trial. Holownia, who is a leading figure in the current ruling coalition, says that the TK, which is widely seen as being under the influence of…
Polish orchard and vineyard owners have been lighting bonfires in an effort to keep their crops warm amid a recent cold snap that followed unseasonably warm weather. That earlier warm period – when temperatures in parts of Poland rose to above 25 degrees C (77 F) – had prompted plants to bloom early, now leaving…
A Swiss subsidiary of the Polish state energy giant Orlen revealed details of the roughly $400 million (1.6 billion zloty) it lost on prepayments made without collateral under the firm’s previous management for Venezuelan crude oil and petroleum products that were never delivered. Orlen Trading Switzerland (OTS) reported that over half the money was paid…
Poland recorded the EU’s largest increase in house prices in the final quarter of 2023. Costs were up by 13% YoY and by 4.8% QoQ, new Eurostat data showed. Across the EU as a whole, prices remained broadly flat. The rises seen in Poland continued to be driven by a popular mortgage subsidy scheme for…
Poland will borrow a further EUR 250 million (1.1 billion zloty) from World Bank to finance the government’s “Clean Air” programme, aimed at to tackling poor air quality by providing subsidies for households to upgrade to cleaner heating systems and improve insulation. “We have signed an agreement with the World Bank for EUR 250 million…