Data from the European Commission show that since 1996 the amount of clothing purchased in the EU per person has increased by 40%. Annually, Europeans buy 26 kg of clothing and throw away around 11 kg of textiles. Meanwhile, according to a KPMG report from 2019, nearly four out of 10 Polish consumers said they…
Sales of goods between Poland and Sweden have increased by 400% since Poland joined the EU in 2004. Today, Poland ranks tenth among Sweden’s largest export markets and eighth among its most important import partners, according to a report prepared by SpotData – the analysis center of Puls Biznesu – and the Scandinavian-Polish Chamber of…
Prime Minister Donald Tusk on September 18 announced a state of natural disaster in the flooded areas of southern Poland after at least five people died and thousands evacuated. The worst floods to hit central Europe in over two decades have left a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland. “I have asked the finance…
Andrzej Duda, for his last time as president, took part in the International Defence Industry Exhibition (MSPO) in Kielce in early September, one of the most important such events in Europe, with 769 exhibitors from 34 countries gathered in the capital of the Świętokrzyskie Voivodeship south of Warsaw. “This is a very important event for…
Poland and India have upgraded their diplomatic relationship to the level of strategic partnership, Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced during a visit to Warsaw in August of his Indian counterpart, Narendra Modi. It was the first time in 45 years that an Indian prime minister had visited the country. The prime ministers, celebrating 70 years…
The issue of whether Polish businesses will profit from post-war reconstruction of Ukraine raised its head again recently. The picture is perhaps not as black as some have painted. According to the World Bank, it will cost about $411 billion to rebuild Ukraine’s housing, infrastructure, and services destroyed by Russia. During the June 2023 Ukraine…
The recent death of a Polish soldier stabbed at the fence by a Moroccan migrant has put the already fraught Poland-Belarus border area under intense scrutiny. The arrest of three Polish soldiers for shooting in the direction on migrants at the border has further exacerbated it. Prime Minister Donald Tusk said his government would restore…
Can the process of Polish convergence at its current pace be sustained, or is it just a historical anomaly, and how does AI affect these dynamics? These are the key questions asked in a report “From industrial to technological competence. How Central Europe can win its future in the AI era” by Spotdata and the…
On May 8, during the 16th European Economic Congress, during the session ‘Investments in Poland through the eyes of business. Regression and hopes,’ the panel discussed the details of a report by ING Bank Śląski and the organizer of the European Economic Congress (EEC), the PTWP Group. The report was based on 26 conversations between…
Fake news mainly from Russia has become a key concern in Europe, with CEE on the front line. Poland Weekly spoke with Mateusz Zadroga, from FakeNews.pl. “We could see an increase in disinformation narratives during the women’s strike against stricter abortion laws in the fall of 2020. Many manipulated and falsified narratives were created around…
Poland’s elections to the European Parliament will take place on June 9, the third in an electoral marathon, following parliamentary elections last fall and local elections in April. If April’s elections were a mini-plebiscite on the first few months of the post-Law and Justice (PiS) government, a coalition led by Civic Coalition (KO) leader, Donald…
Poland and Korea were both ruled by foreign powers at the start of the 20th century, Poland partitioned between Austria, Germany and Russia, and Korea under Japanese rule. Such shared histories of external oppression are clearly a factor that brought the two nations closer together after the Cold War. Today Korea and Poland have a…
