The Monetary Policy Council (RPP), the Polish central bank’s rate-setting body, has kept the reference interest rate at 6.75%. The National Bank of Poland’s Lombard rate remained at 7.25%, the rediscount rate at 6.80% and the discount rate at 6.85%, the RPP announced after its sitting on December 7. The RPP also left the deposit…
The European Commission has paved the way for EUR 3.85 billion to be invested in helping five of Poland’s coal-mining regions deal with the challenges of becoming carbon-neutral. Speaking in the southern city of Chorzow, which lies in the heartlands of Poland’s mining industry, Frans Timmermans, the EU’s climate policy chief, has said that the…
The Sejm, the lower house of the Polish parliament, has adopted a bill freezing natural gas tariffs in 2023 for all households and sensitive recipients at 2022 levels. The bill went through on December 1 night with 424 votes in favour and 16 abstentions, with no votes against. Under the draft legislation, the gas price…
Poland’s Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) rose to 43.4 points in November from 42.0 points in October, economic researcher S&P Global reported on December 1. Economists polled by PAP predicted the PMI would reach 42.8 points in November. “Manufacturing and new orders fell for another month in November, albeit the pace of decline slowed down compared…
Ratings agency Standard and Poor’s (S&P) has downgraded Poland’s economic growth forecast to 0.9% in 2023 from 1.2% forecast in September. At the same time, S&P predicts that Poland’s economic growth will accelerate to 3.2% in 2024. “Our baseline assumption is weak but still a positive GDP growth of 0.9% in 2023 versus our previous…
Poland’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) increased by 3.6% YoY in the third quarter of 2022, the Central Statistical Office (GUS) said on November 30. The figure is slightly higher than the previous flash estimate in which GUS said that in Q3 GDP growth would be at 3.5%. In Q2, the country’s GDP rose by 5.8%,…
Poland’s inflation rate is expected to slow down in March 2023, the Polish Economic Institute (PIE), a government think-tank, has said commenting on the latest figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS). GUS reported on November 30 that the Polish consumer price index (CPI) increased by 17.4% YoY in November on a 0.7% MoM increase.…