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…
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…