Poland, France, Germany and Italy signed a letter of intent to jointly develop long-range cruise missiles on the sidelines of the NATO summit in Washington, D.C. “The aim is to establish cooperation in the development of our key deep strike capability,” said Poland’s Defence Ministry. This will lead to “joint projects regarding specific solutions that…
Hungary is blocking around EUR 2 billion (8.5 billion zloty) of EU funds earmarked for Poland to compensate for military aid Warsaw has provided to Ukraine. “The Polish government has been repeatedly communicating to Hungary at all possible levels that we are dissatisfied with the fact that Hungary has, for a year now, been blocking…
Polish scientist Olga Malinkiewicz and the team she leads at Saule Technologies have won the European Inventor Award for their work in developing a printable solar cell that is cheaper and more flexible than traditional photovoltaics and can even produce power from artificial light. They won in the small and medium enterprises category and were…
Poland is looking at the possibility of sending electricity generated by Polish power stations using Polish coal to Ukraine this winter, as its neighbour faces an energy crisis caused by Russian attacks against its infrastructure. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, who met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 8, said that his government was…
Housing prices in Poland were 18% higher than a year earlier in the first quarter of 2024, which was the largest figure in the European Union for the second successive quarter, new Eurostat figures showed. Poland was followed by Bulgaria and Lithuania, which saw increases of 16% and 9.9% respectively. At the other end of…
A Polish rocket that uses a pioneering type of environmentally friendly fuel has reached space for the first time. Taking off from the Andoya base in Norway on July 3 and travelling at a speed of up to 1.4 km per second, the ILR-33 Ambert 2K rocket passed an altitude of 100 km, which marked…
Poland’s Defence Ministry threatened legal action against an opposition-aligned media outlet that reported alleged plans to cut the defence budget by a quarter. The ministry says the story is false and suggests that Russia could be behind it. But opposition MPs claim to have confirmed it is genuine. On July 4 morning, TV Republika, a…