Warsaw’s Chopin Airport has serviced nearly 5 million passengers since the beginning of the year, with 1.4 million flying from or to the terminal in April alone, a Chopin spokeswoman has said. Over 4.4 million passengers booked international flights and 483,000 domestic flights from Chopin over the first four months of 2023, only around 5%…
Warsaw-Radom Airport, located around 100 kilometres south of the Polish capital, has serviced 4,500 passengers since it re-opened for business four weeks ago after an extensive modernisation. The airport, which has a chequered history, started handling flights again on April 27, after being officially opened by Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister. The only public airport…
Poland booked a EUR 2.9-billion trade surplus in January-March, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE) said on May 18 citing data from the Central Statistical Office (GUS). PIE wrote that the surplus was partly due to a nearly 16% rise in export prices and an only 11% rise in import prices. The institute noted that export…
Poland’s GDP growth should average 0.6% in 2023, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a government-affiliated economic think-tank, reported on May 17. In a commentary to GDP growth data provided by the Central Statistical Office (GUS), PIE wrote that the growth rate was expected to pick up in the second half of the year, mainly owing…
Poland’s current account surplus rose to EUR 1.64 billion at the end of March, against a surplus of EUR 1.41 billion recorded at the end of February, according to central bank figures released on May 15. Market analysts surveyed by PAP offered median forecast for a EUR 2.13-billion surplus. Poland recorded a EUR 608-million surplus…
Speaking at the Law and Justice (PiS) party convention in Warsaw, party President Jaroslaw Kaczynski said that “we hope for low inflation in the new year, so this new financial injection will no longer threaten a return to inflationary tendencies – we have taken this into account.” “The Law and Justice Hive Programme” convention was…
Poland’s core inflation will likely decline in the coming months and quarters and would certainly start decreasing in H2, the governor of the National Bank of Poland (NBP) has said. Adam Glapinski held a press conference on May 11 following the NBP’s Monetary Policy Council’s May 10 decision to keep all interest rates unchanged for…