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Startuppers visit the Presidential Palace

The second edition of “Start-ups at the Palace” has drawn to a close with an official banquet and a meeting at the Presidential Palace in Warsaw. During the event, the President of Poland, Andrzej Duda, congratulated all participants and together with other attendees listened to their ideas for changing the world.   The “Start-ups at the Palace” programme is organised by the Start Up Poland foundation. The foundation council picked out 10 innovative projects that they believe dese Read more

Ramboll is looking for new development paths

Ramboll, one of the top European engineer-consulting-project companies, was founded in Denmark In 1945 and currently employs almost 10 thousand specialists around the world. It offers architecture, consulting and engineer solutions in the area of energy and fuels, management, and transport.   The company, present on the Polish market for over 20 years, has recently changed its president. Jacek Czerwonka, the new CEO of Ramboll Polska (previously working for Polimeks-Mostostal and Polimeks Read more

Polski Prąd i Gwith a 10 million PLN fine from UOKiK

Polski Prąd i Gaz (former Polska Energetyka PRO) was penalized by the President of the Office of Competition and Customer Protection (UOKiK) with a fine in the amount of 10 million PLN. It is suspected that company representatives were pretending to be the current electricity provider.   Polski Prąd i  Gaz, previously a member of the Financial Assets Management Group capital group (whose members are also Telekomunikacja dla Domu and Tele-Polska) is one of around 460 entities selling el Read more

Warsaw Stock Exchange bullish

We have bull market – declared Magdalena Zaleska, the President of Warsaw Stock Exchange. She hosted a press conference in which she presented Warsaw Stock Exchange Group’s results and current situation. The news she had to present were very good. The group accrued annual income in the amount of 131.1 billion PLN, the highest since 2011.   Poland’s most important exchange market has shown very good results from November 2016. WIG, the main index accruing stock prices of all companie Read more

Severe penalties for fabricating invoices

From 1 March 2017, a new act came into effect which toughens the provisions on using fake invoices. This offense carries the penalty of up to 25 years in prison and high fines. A new category of crime entered the Criminal Code: issuing fake VAT invoices and fabricating them and modifying them in order to use them as authentic.   Pursuant to the act, forging or modifying an invoice in the way that may have impact on the calculation of tax or tax refund, as well as using such invoice, carri Read more

Polish-Norwegian Baltic Pipe talks

On Friday, 10th of February, in Warsaw, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs Witold Waszczykowski hosted Norwegian head of diplomacy Børge Brende. Among the key topics planned for discussion at the meeting were energy projects with participation of both countries (in particular Baltic Pipe within the concept of the North Corridor) as well as the situation of Polish diaspora in Norway.   Baltic Pipe, a planned gas pipeline connecting Denmark and Poland, is to link Polish and Dani Read more
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