Ceremonial opening of the US missile base in Redzikowo, part of NATO’s missile defense system and part of the US European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) program, took place in November 2024. This is the first permanent installation of the United States Armed Forces in Poland. The opening ceremony was attended by the President Andrzej Duda, the…
With ambitious strategies and groundbreaking projects, Poland is transforming its energy landscape, paving the way for a greener, more self-reliant future powered by hydrogen. Demanding StrategyNowadays, about 90 percent of hydrogen is produced and used in the fertilizer and refining industries, but its future lies in the power industry and production from renewable sources, primarily…
On 20 December 2024 Air Arabia launched direct flights from Warsaw Chopin Airport to Sharjah, the third biggest city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) bordering with Dubai. The ribbon was cut by the first flight pilots and officials from Air Arabia and Polskie Porty Lotnicze, with passengers being served tortes and gifts. Air Arabia…
In 1999, Robert Dobrzycki was a fifth-year student at the University of Warsaw, Faculty of Management, when he quite accidentally found a job as a junior accountant and financial analyst at Menard Doswell, a US developer with Polish capital that employed 15 people and was building a few warehouses per year. Six years later, he…
This year, Poland celebrates its 25th anniversary of joining the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, which has become the foundation of Poland’s contemporary alliance and defense strategy. Its membership also strengthens the security of the entire Eastern and Central European region, the so-called NATO eastern flank. This was underscored by the first visit of the new…
On November 26, 2024, Ghelamco, a leading developer in the Polish office space market, sold its flagship investment, Warsaw Unit—one of the most modern and environmentally friendly skyscrapers on the continent—to the Swedish company Eastnine AB for EUR 280 million. This marks the largest transaction in the European office space market this year. The building,…
In November, the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) signed a Letter of Intent to provide a $1 billion loan to the state company Polskie Elektrownie Jądrowe Sp. z o.o. for the construction of Poland’s first AP1000 nuclear power plant. The plant will be built in collaboration with the consortium of Westinghouse Electric Company and…
The Academic Computer Centre ‘Cyfronet’ at AGH University in Kraków is implementing the AI Factory project to become the first Artificial Intelligence Factory in Poland. Thanks to the government’s and the European Union’s financial support of zł 70 m ($17.5 m), the Centre’s main supercomputer, Helios GPU, will have its computing power strengthened to become…
One of the global deferred payment leaders, Klarna, wants to build a new technology hub in Warsaw. It has been present in Poland since 2021 and considers this investment a milestone in global development in AI solutions and financial innovations. “Poland will be a technology superpower in Europe. Thanks to its exceptional engineering talent, blooming…
Four Polish state-owned entities—Agencja Rozwoju Przemysłu S.A. (ARP), Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa S.A. (PGZ), Grupa Azoty S.A. (state majority shareholding), and MESKO S.A.—signed a Letter of Intent to develop a gunpowder factory with a raw materials base in Poland. This initiative aims to meet the increasing demand of the Polish armed forces, particularly for multi-caliber NATO…
In October, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Hera probe with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on a long trek across the Solar System to the binary asteroid system Didymos-Dimorphos, which became famous in September 2022 after NASA’s probe hit Dimorphos during the Double Asteroid Redirect…
Poland has been intensively working on developing its own nuclear power production over the last decade, but Polish research in nuclear technologies spans more than 70 years. In 1955, the Polish Academy of Sciences opened the Nuclear Research Institute in Świerk near Warsaw. The first reactor, named Ewa, was launched in 1958 and operated for…