Following agreements between the Ministry for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development of Ukraine, the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland and the Lubelskie Voivodeship, the Uhryniv-Dolhobyczow border crossing point was opened for empty trucks. This is a joint checkpoint on the Polish side, which usually operated only for cars and buses. Starting from December 4, trucks…
Poland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 0.5% YoY in the third quarter of 2023, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on November 30. Compared to the previous quarter, the economy grew by 1.5%, GUS said. Poland’s economy contracted by 0.6% YoY in the second quarter. According to a GUS flash estimate, GDP was expected…
Warsaw will introduce enhanced checks of Ukrainian carriers on access roads to the border, Polish Minister of Infrastructure Alvin Gajadhur has said after a meeting with Polish carriers on November 29. Gajadhur said he wanted to fight unfair competition from foreign companies that were taking away the market from honest Polish carriers. “The result of…
Poland is likely to see no changes in the interest rates until the end of 2024, with GDP growth of 3.1% over the period, the S&P Global Ratings agency has said in a forecast. In the report dated November 27, S&P economists raised their estimate of Poland’s GDP by 0.1% in 2024, while expecting Poland’s…
On his last day in office, Polish Minister of Infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk sent a letter to Deputy Prime Minister for the Restoration of Ukraine Oleksandr Kubrakov with Warsaw’s proposals for resolving the crisis at the border. These proposals include letting empty Polish trucks from Ukraine to Poland outside the e-queue and asking the European Commission…
Poland’s budget deficit stood at PLN 36.42 billion (EUR 8.33 billion) at the end of October, the Finance Ministry announced on November 25. In the January-October period, budgetary revenues measured PLN 475.4 billion (EUR 108.69 billion), which was 39.6% of the plan for the year and PLN 49.5 billion (EUR 11.32 billion) higher than the…
Poland’s unemployment rate remained unchanged in October at 5%, the same as in the previous month, the stats office GUS said. According to GUS, the number of unemployed registered with labour offices dropped to 770,400 in October from 776,500 in September. Economists in a PAP Biznes survey had said the unemployment rate would stand at…