Increasing numbers of women have jobs involving manual labour in Poland owing to the influx of refugees from Ukraine, an employment agency reports. According to Gremi Personal, the war in Ukraine and the related inflow of refugees, mainly women and children, have totally changed the structure of the Ukrainian workforce compared to the situation before…
Inflation might fall to single figures before the end of the year, a deputy finance minister said on March 6. Poland has been struggling with a high inflation rate for a number of months, and in January it hit 17.2%. But in a radio interview, Artur Sobon said that a marked drop in inflation was…
Poland’s budget deficit was much lower than planned in 2022, Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister, said. The prime minister revealed the latest deficit figures at a public finance conference held at Warsaw’s National Stadium on March 6. “Today I can say that the budget deficit for 2022 was PLN 12.4 billion (EUR 2.63 billion),” he…
Polish retail sales went up by 2.4% YoY in January after a 4.3% increase in December 2022, Eurostat, the EU’s statistics agency, reported on March 6. Month on month, retail sales went up by 1.2%, the agency also said. Retail sales in the eurozone fell by 2.3% YoY in January after a 2.8% decline a…
Data from Eurostat, the EU’s statistical office, show Poland has the bloc’s second-lowest unemployment rate, the Ministry of Family and Social Polish has announced. The ministry posted on its website that the country recorded a jobless rate of 2.8% in January, down from 2.9% in December 2022. “The EU statistical office once more confirms the…
Andrzej Duda, the Polish president, has said that Poland’s participation in the post-war rebuilding of Ukraine is vital. Talking to a business conference in Bukowina Tatrzanska, southern Poland, on March 3, Duda said that the task of rebuilding Ukraine after the war belonged to the international community, and funds to do it would come from…
Poland will contribute to creation of a new safe traffic system in Azerbaijan, Deputy Minister of Infrastructure of the Republic of Poland Andrzej Bittel has said during a conference on “Strengthening of road safety in Azerbaijan”. According to him, the expert group from Poland and Lithuania will share their experience with their Azerbaijani colleagues. “I’m…