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Ministry of State Treasury to be dissolved

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło has some big plans regarding the Ministry of State Treasury. It will cease to exist. The number of ministries will go one step down. The government, and the ministry itself, are working on suitable legal provisions, mostly touching on supervision issues.   The ministry in question is responsible for Poland’s national assets, for example business entities in which the Polish state is a majority shareholder (on the only shareholder). State Treasury comp Read more

Poles do not save money for retirement

Eurostat data confirm what experts have been noticing for a long time: Poles are not good at saving money. In comparison with other European nations, an average Polish citizen does not have much assets saved for retirement or other purposes. The situation is worrying.   EU’s statistical office presented gross saving rate of European households, i.e. the value of gross savings divided by the value of gross disposable income. The numbers place Poland almost at the bottom of the list of mo Read more

More and more Ukrainians work in Poland. They fill the gap left behind Polish emigrants.

The data of the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy show that in each year more and more Ukrainian citizens apply for legal work in Poland. Poland is becoming more and more attractive as a job market for foreigners. During the nine months of this year, they submitted 100 thousand applications for a residence permit – this is a third more than in the same period of 2015.   Experts and employees are glad to see this trend. Immigrants are slowly filling the gap left behind the Pol Read more

Coal imports to Poland up by almost half a million ton

From the beginning of the year till the end of August around 5.2 ton of bituminous coal arrived to Poland, mainly from Russia. As to the eight months of the previous year, coal imports increased by almost half a million ton – shows the data from the Katowice branch of Industrial Development Agency (ARP).   Coal imports to Poland was one of the topics of the parliamentary mining and energy team meeting held on Wednesday. The head of the ARP branch in Katowice, Henryk Paszcza, estimated t Read more

Poland ranked 24th in Doing Business

The World Bank presents an annual Doing Business report on the ease of conducting business activity in 19 countries around the globe. In this year’s ranking, Poland took the 24th position, which is the country’s historical best. The first spot in the ranking was taken by New Zealand, followed by Singapore and Denmark.   The evaluated countries are ranked with respect to several categories connected with business environment. These are: Starting a Business, Dealing with Cons Read more

Polish electric car getting closer

On Wednesday, PGE Polska Grupa Energetyczna, Energa, Enea and Tauron Polska Energia formed ElectroMobility Poland – the companies announced. The new company is to work on Polish electric car, among other things.   The new entity is to contribute to the creation of a system of electromobility in Poland.   Electromobility is one of the areas that will have impact on the electricity market. The degree in which the energy sector is prepared for popularising electric cars will decide Read more
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