Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) rose by 13% YoY and were unchanged month on month in May, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on May 31. In a flash estimate, GUS said that May’s CPI would reach 13% YoY and remain flat month on month. In April, the prices of…
Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, has opened a new PepsiCo factory in southwestern Poland that should create 600 jobs. The factory, PepsiCo’s fifth plant in Poland, will produce potato crisps for its Frito-Lay brand. During the opening ceremony in the town of Swiete, which lies close to Sroda Slaska, the prime minister said the plant…
Fuel company PKN Orlen plans to offer drivers a summer discount on petrol and diesel purchases, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita writes. According to the paper, Orlen could cut the price of both fuels by PLN 0.33 (EUR 0.06) a litre, in a move similar to a promotional campaign it carried out last summer. The discounts will…
In 2022, Poland belonged to a group of five EU countries where unemployment in the 15-29 age group was below 4%, Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, reported. Last year, a total of 4.48 million young people aged 15 to 29 were unemployed in the EU. This is 6.3% of the total population…
Poland’s nuclear power company, Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) has signed an agreement with the US firms Westinghouse and Bechtel on setting up a design and engineering consortium for the construction of a nuclear power plant (NPP) in Poland. The NPP, Poland’s first, is to be built in the northern region of Pomorze using Westinghouse technology.…
Poland’s state-owned fuel company PKN Orlen will announce 13 more locations for BWRX-300 small modular (nuclear) reactors (SMRs), the company’s CEO, Daniel Obajtek, has said. In mid-April, Obajtek announced seven preliminary sites where Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE), a special purpose vehicle created by Orlen and the Polish chemical firm Synthos, could build BWRX-300 reactors…
The vast majority of Polish firms now employ Ukrainians, according to a new research. The survey carried out by the Gremi Personal analytical centre found that 80% of firms now had Ukrainians on their books, while in one-third of the firms Ukrainians now accounted for 10-20% of staff. Ukrainians occupy both highly qualified and low-qualified…