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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Sejm accepted amendments regarding one tax. PIT together with ZUS and NFZ contributions

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On Thursday, Sejm passed amendments to the act that will make it possible to exchange data between ZUS and tax authorities, which is essential for making calculations connected with one tax which is to combine PIT, ZUS and NFZ contributions.   391 MP were in favour of amending the act on tax administration and the act on the social insurance system, 26 were against, one person abstained.   Earlier, the MPs rejected the amendment according to which the legal provisions would come in Read more

The bill on UN climate agreement signed by the President of Poland.

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President Andrzej Duda signed the bill empowering the head of state to ratify the UN climate agreement. The agreement obliges countries to limit CO2 emissions and fight climate change and global warming, among other things.   The bill was passed through Sejm and the Senate did not decide on proposing any alterations.   Agreement provisions were negotiated last year in Paris. It should be noted that it touches no only on the reduction of greenhouse gas emission, but also highlights Read more
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