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US firm Intel plans to build a semiconductor production and testing plant at Miekinia, near Wroclaw, western Poland, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Friday, 16 June. The factory, to be located in the “Legnica Special Economic Zone”, is expected to cost USD 4.6bn, and employ around 2,
Poland’s first agrivoltaic farm, with a target 1GW capacity could be constructed in northern Poland, Gazeta Wyborcza reported Sunday, 18 June. German green energy investor Kelfield signed a letter of intent on the project with Polish photovoltaic manufacturer Corab, at the Intersolar Europe fair in Munich earlier in the
Poland outstretched all of its EU peers for growth in the first quarter of 2023, the bloc’s official statistics office Eurostat reported in its revised data. In Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) – and Europe as a whole – Poland had the highest growth rate of 3.8%, ahead of Croatia
A massive mobilisation of Polish opposition voters and leaders estimated at up to half a million people took to the streets of Warsaw to protest the country’s nationalist government on Sunday, 4 June, Gazeta Wyborcza reported. Poland’s ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) party is currently seven percentage
Only 4.48 million EU citizens aged 15 to 29 found themselves unemployed last year, according to the latest data from the EU’s official statistics agency Eurostat. This constituted 6.3% of those in that age group, a historic low since 2009, it added. The lowest rate in Central
The Polish automotive industry grew by over 21.5% last year to hit an all-time high of EUR 39.7bn, Gazeta Wyborcza reported, citing analytics company AutomotiveSuppliers.pl. This is not only the result of an improved economy, but also inflation, the Polish daily wrote. The automotive industry remains a
Poland’s state-controlled oil company, PKN Orlen, is facing significant losses due to the EU banning Russian crude oil. The company is struggling to find alternative supplies for its Czech refinery and is losing millions of dollars every day, Polish daily Gazeta Wyborcza reports. PKN Orlen CEO Daniel Obajtek told
Poland has signed with the UK a GBP 1.9bn export agreement to roll out a British short-range air defence system, the latter government announced on Friday, 28 April. According to the agreement, the UK will equip Poland with 22 air defence batteries with UK Common Anti-Air Modular Missiles (CAMMs)
Estonia had the highest employment rate in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) of 81.9% in 2022, according to the recently released data of the EU statistics agency Eurostat. Just behind the Baltic country were Czechia, with 81.3%, and Hungary (80.2%). The middle grouping of the EU member
“There will be more and more renewable energy in Poland and other European countries,” E.ON Polska president Andrzej Modzelewski said in an interview with Gazeta Wyborcza published on Saturday, 29 April. The energy company executive told the Polish daily that “at E.ON, unlike at other operators, we are
Agriculture Minister Zdenek Nekula is right when he says Czech farmers are overplaying the role of Ukrainian wheat on their current travails, according to analysts cited by Czech business daily Hospodarsk Noviny (HN). In contrast to Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Hungary, Czechia has rejected the idea of banning imports from
Poland’s pursuit of nuclear energy took another step forward last week as Polskie Elektrownie Jadrowe (PEJ) applied to the Polish Climate Ministry for a “decision-in-principle” on the construction of the country’s first large nuclear power plant. The decision would confirm that the investment in the plant is in
Poland and Hungary have temporarily ceased importing Ukrainian grain and other agricultural produce, defying warnings from the EU that unilateral action would violate its trade policy. Following Poland and Hungary, the Slovak government also announced that it would temporarily restrict the import of grain and other products from Ukraine, citing
Polish energy giant Orlen announced the completion on Friday 7 April of the process of implementing remedies, and Lotos Terminale finally becoming the property of fuel importer Unimot. The sale was the last stage in the implementation of conditions set by the European Commission (EC) for merging Orlen with Lotos,
Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki laid out his hopes to build a new economic community in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) with Romania and Ukraine in Bucharest on Tuesday, 28 March, and also criticised powerful Western countries for “undermining the region”. At the Polish-Romanian intergovernmental consultations in Bucharest, Morawiecki stressed cooperation