Poland’s Sejm, lower house of parliament, has passed a budget bill that will enable the new government to fulfill some of its key election promises, but involves a deficit exceeding EU recommendations. According to the budget bill approved by the Sejm on January 18, state revenues are planned at nearly PLN 682.4 billion (EUR 154.9…
Close to 18.5 million passengers were serviced at the Polish capital city’s Chopin Airport last year, compared to 14.4 million travellers in 2022, the airport announced. The airport, in a press release published on January 16, reported that it handled 18,499,527 passengers in 2023, up by 28% YoY. The report added that, also in 2023,…
Oleksandr Kubrakov, Deputy Prime Minister for Restoration, Minister for Communities, Territories and Infrastructure Development, held a conversation with Dariusz Klimczak, Minister of Infrastructure of Poland, on unblocking the border. The key topic of the talks was the signing of an agreement between the Ministry of Infrastructure of Poland and Polish protesters to open the border,…
Poland’s core inflation, excluding food and energy prices, measured 6.9% YoY in December 2023, down from 7.3% recorded in November 2023, Poland’s central bank (NBP) announced in a statement. On a monthly basis, the central bank also said that Poland’s core inflation edged up to 0.3%, up from the flat result 0.0% recorded in November…
Poland’s Consumer Price Index (CPI) stood at 6.2% YoY in December 2023 against the 6.1% predicted in a previous flash estimate, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on January 15. The CPI inflation in November 2023 was 6.6%. Consumer prices in December 2023 increased by 6.2% (with an increase of prices of services by 8.2%…
A member of Poland’s interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Council (MPC) has said she expects neither cuts nor increases in the rates at the moment. Gabriela Maslowska was speaking to Radio Lublin on January 12. Last year, the MPC lowered rates twice, in September and October, bringing down the central bank’s reference rate to 5.75%. “I…
There were 1,900 trucks in queues on the border of Ukraine and Poland, and the directions of three checkpoints were being blocked, the spokesperson for the State Border Guard Service, Andriy Demchenko said on January 11. “The blocking of the Rava-Ruska-Hrebenne, Krakivets-Korczowa and Yahodyn-Dorohusk checkpoints continues. According to the Polish border guards, as of this…