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EC adopts a strategy on cooperation with China in the upcoming 5 years

The European Union increasingly encourages China to open its market more broadly for European companies, tempting Beijing with the prospect of concluding an investment agreement, or even a free trade agreement in the future. Last Wednesday the European Commission adopted a new strategy regarding the Middle Kingdom.   China are EU’s second trade partner. Europe is indisputably the most important destination for Chinese foreign investment. In the last ten years, when the EU carried out it Read more

Brexit – what next?

Chief of the German Chancellery Peter Altmaier said that Great Britain will officially submit a motion to leave the European Union as soon as “within the upcoming weeks or months”. Meanwhile, the President of the EP Martin Schulz deemed the Tuesday EU summit the most suitable moment for filing such motion.   During an interview for a Sunday edition of „Bild”, the President of the European Parliament warned against pointless inertia which – as he stressed – will amplify the uni Read more

MAR in Poland

As of 3 July 2016 the Regulation on market abuse, the so-called MAR (Market Abuse Regulation) will be directly entered into Polish legal order, as the legislators are not under the obligation to implement it into the Polish legal order.   What is more, in the Ministry of Finance there are already works to adjust Polish legal provisions, i.e. the trading in financial instruments act and the public offer act so that they are compliant with the MAR and the MAD (Market Abuse Directive). &nbs Read more

Amendment to the act on renewable energy sources

Today in the Sejm 244 MPs voted in favour of the amendments to the act on renewable energy sources, 177 MPs voted against, and 19 MPs abstained from the vote. In favour were the MPs of PiS and a part of the Kukiz15 parliamentary club. Against – PO, Nowoczesna and PSL. The MPs who abstained were the remaining MPs of the Kukiz15 club.   Another draft of an amendment on backing renewable energy sources was prepared by the Energy resort, but it landed in Sejm as an MP initiative of a group Read more

Constitution for business

On 09.06.2016 Deputy Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki presented the first entrepreneurship package. It envisions, among other things, less bothering tax inspections and protection against changing legal interpretations. The package of facilitations for entrepreneurs, in the form of concrete projects, should be discussed by the government after the summer holidays. As he added, the second package for entrepreneurs – in the form of a “Constitution for Business” – will be presented in autu Read more

Sharing economy: a solution for guaranteed European economic growth

The European Commission started to intensify its actions towards championing enterprises that decided to offer goods and services within the scope of the more and more popular sharing economy. The spokespersons for the community stress that it is also very important to prepare appropriate regulations adapted to the presence of various business models within the model.   According to EC’s statement, innovating services of the sharing economy (or collaborative economy) are to have positiv Read more
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