Poland’s transaction market is growing in the tough new economic reality and attracting unwavering interest from investors, according to KPMG’s latest report. Poland ranks first in Central and Eastern Europe in terms of both the number and value of M&A deals between 2020 and 2022. What does 2023 hold in store for the Polish M&A…
In this episode, Tessa McIver talks to Magdalena Jabłońska, CEO of Start Smart CEE – an accelerator affiliated with the MIT ecosystem. To date, Start Smart CEE has accelerated over 300 early-stage startups, helping them to kick-start their development. Let’s find out what impact an accelerator can have on a startup and, more broadly, on…
Poland Weekly talked with Courtney Fingar, the Founder & Principal of London-based Fingar Direct Investment about how the changing FDI environment and geopolitics are changing Poland’s investment profile. “Poland, as you know anyway, has been a star performer for FDI for quite a long time now,” Courtney says. “And that tracks with its good overall…
Warehouse space set to enter a period of stable growth and development after the challenges of the past 12 months After 2023, when the logistics and warehouse industry struggled with rising rents and vacancy rates, warehouses are entering the new year with good prospects. Colliers experts expect rent stabilization and increased investment activity. Positive impacts…
Sylwia Ziemacka talked to Paweł M. Nowak, Attorney-at-law, Zespół Kancelarii Radców Prawnych Anety Ciechowicz-Jaworskiej, Bartłomieja Ślażyńskiego i Pawła Nowaka HOW CAN POLISH CITIZENSHIP BE ACQUIRED? Since Poland joined the European Union and a Polish passport thus became an EU passport, which guarantees its holder a number of rights in all member states, the value and…
2024 brings changes to the job market – proposals of the new government and the ideas set in motion by its predecessors. According to the announcements of the parties forming the new government, significant changes await Polish workers in 2024. Their vision of labor market reforms focuses on striving for gender equality, supporting women in…
Since Poland joined the European Union and a Polish passport thus became an EU passport, which guarantees its holder a number of rights in all member states, the value and strength of Polish citizenship has increased significantly. The criteria for acquiring Polish citizenship have been tightened. For example, the possibility of acquiring citizenship by marrying…
Welcome to StartUP with Poland hosted by Tessa McIver. Today we are going to talk to a startup founder who is not from Poland, but from Latvia. However, my guest, Edgars Stafeckis, is currently expanding his business to the Polish market. Egdars is the co-founder and CEO of TrustLynx. TrustLynx is an API platform that…
The project “Ukrainian woman in Poland” was created in March 2022 by Julia Boguslavska, a Ukrainian from Donetsk who has lived in Poland for 10 years. She tells Poland Weekly’s Sylwia Ziemacka about the project and how she got involved. “There is a saying in both Poland and Ukraine that life is a path we…
The European Parliament is working on the Directive of the European Parliament and of the Council on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending Directive (EU) 2019/1937 (CSDD), which requires large companies operating in the European Union to identify, assess and manage negative environmental and social impacts. What changes should be expected? To date, companies have…
2023 was the first in several years without significant shocks to the labor market, such as a pandemic, rapidly rising inflation or war. The stability we experienced will continue this year. Entrepreneurs are rather optimistic about the future, although jobs will be fewer and unemployment will not increase. The three key challenges we will face…
