An environment agency and a green energy company have signed an agreement on cooperation in the implementation of small modular reactors (SMRs) in Poland. The National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOSiGW) and Orlen Synthos Green Energy (OSGE) signed the deal on March 16. The government agency announced earlier that together with OSGE…
The Ukrainian authorities are interested in close energy cooperation with Poland, Ukraine’s Ambassador to Poland Vasyl Zvarych has said. “We appreciate our cooperation very much. We have many projects that are already being implemented, despite Russian aggression,” Zvarych said, adding that Kyiv was interested in ensuring that such energy cooperation with Warsaw was as close…
Poland’s core inflation, which excluded the prices of food and energy, measured 12% YoY in February, up from 11.7 % in January, the National Bank of Poland (NBP) said on March 16. Inflation excluding fixed prices amounted to 18.1% in February, up from 16.3% in the previous month. Inflation excluding the most volatile items measured…
More than 4,500 foreign doctors are currently working in Poland, the Polish health minister said on March 16. Adam Niedzielski pointed out that foreigners now accounted for nearly 5% of all physicians employed in Poland. Speaking in a radio interview Niedzielski said foreign doctors applying for work in Poland were subject to a simplified screening…
Prices of consumer goods and services (Consumer Price Index, CPI) increased by 18.4% YoY and by 1.2% MoM in February, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) reported on March 15. Economists polled by PAP Business estimated that February’s CPI would reach 18.7% YoY and would decrease by 0.9% MM. In January, the prices of consumer goods…
Adam Glapinski, governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP), has assessed that amid inflation forecasts it has become unlikely that the Monetary Policy Council (RPP), NBP’s rate-setting body, will increase interest rates. “Taking into account the results of the inflation projection, one might say that further hikes are becoming increasingly less likely,” Glapinski wrote…
More Polish firms plan to hire more staff than fire in the second quarter of this year, according to a survey published on March 14. In its report the ManpowerGroup HR also wrote that the majority of firms expected to make no changes to the number of their employees. It found that 28% of firms…