Poland goes green
It’s a great opportunity for Poland to get a clean landscape, and to catch up with the European standards of waste management ...more
FDI Intelligence highly of Polish investment capacity
The FDI Intelligence (Foreign Direct Investment), which analyses investment flows, stated in a report that in 2011 Poland and Russia were becoming the fastest-growing European investment destinations ...more
Warsaw ranks high as great place for opening business offices
Warsaw teams up with other European capitals as a great location for doing business. In an overall ranking by Cushman & Wakefield – Global Real Estate Solutions – Warsaw climbed up to number one position for the best place in respect of the ratio between the cost and standard of its office spaces ...more
On the rise: Polish science and technology parks
Thanks to lavish European Union funds, a number of science and technology parks have recently emerged in Poland. Such centers develop future solutions in innovation and technology ...more
Dynaxo's ceramic gas plate wins Good Design 2011 Competition
The “Good Design” competition has been rewarding the best designed products and services intended for the Polish market since 1993. The product which won the 2011 edition of the prestigious competition was a ceramic gas plate DynaCook X ...more
Polish yachts on the seven seas
The Yantar Yachts company, with its headquarters in Gdańsk Shipyard (the cradle of the Solidarity movement), builds luxury motor boats using state-of-the-art material and technologies ...more
Poles on the way to rover down the Mars!
A Polish invention for space exploration got credits in the USA ...more
Eco-friendly Wielkopolska
Strange as it may sound, sewage systems, sewage treatment plants or waste processing utilities may well co-exist in harmony with the natural surroundings. Such projects include, for example, a sewage plant built in an old watermill ...more
Warsaw’s skyscraper – green LEEDer
The US Green Building Council (USGBC) from Washington, D.C. awards a LEED Gold certification to Warsaw’s Rondo 1 skyscraper. Rondo 1 is a recently built, multi-tenant edifice, the first such building in Europe to attain the reward ...more
American School of Warsaw
Berlin, Paris, even Prague are truly beautiful cities, but there you are just one of a million foreigners. Warsaw is different – foreigners get special care here ...more
Best business locations: where to live, earn and spend money in Poland?
Within the last 20 years they’ve been catching up with their Western counterparts and now they have settled in the European league for good. But still aspire for more! What are the pros and cons of the Polish largest cities? ...more
Poland in Davos: thriving economy and cautious diplomacy
Don't tell, don't write, don't sign! Otherwise you can be in trouble - warned the Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs in Davos. How diplomats shall communicate in times of hackers and Wikileaks? Any suggestions? ...more.
Lotos: Polish business opportunity of 2011
The Ministry of the Treasury is looking for the investor for Lotos, the second largest oil company in Poland. Meanwhile, Lotos aims at record profits. - This year we expect the net profit of 1 bln PLN (over 250 mln euro) – when Pawel Olechnowicz, the chief executive officer of Lotos, said these words, the share price of his company listed at Warsaw Stock Exchange jumped by over 6 percent. ...more.
Poland has become CEE economic leader
Poland as a representative of the new EU member countries is today an economic leader in Central and Eastern Europe. In addition, thanks to its persistent moves toward political and economic improvements it has come to be perceived as a reliable partner ...more
Foreseeing Polish macro-economy
A projected GDP growth rate of approximately 4% in 2011, and around 5% in the ensuing years, is an ambitious but still viable scenario for the Polish economy ...more
European energy challenges: climate or economy dilemma
On Friday, February 4th 2011, representatives of 27 EU member states gathered in Brussels at the first summit dedicated to the future of the European energy market. Although it’s been shadowed by the current unrest in Egypt and the Middle East, energetic topics caused fierce discussions. According to Polish suggestions, in the final declaration there is a call for further assessment of the use of unconventional fossil fuel sources such as shale gas, which Warsaw is keen to explore. ...more.
Shale gas to boost Polish energy sector
Poland has potentially rich resources of shale gas and this appears to be a not-to-be-missed chance. The country faces a great opportunity to build a strong energy sector following the USA where the share of shale gas in the overall gas supply rocketed from 1% in 2000 up to 20% now, and it is believed to further grow reaching as much as 50% in 2035 ...more
Poland defies global crisis
Poland is the only country within the Continent to have confidently withstood the widespread financial and economic crisis that appeared on the horizon in 2008. No wonder global investors are beginning to perceive Poland as a ‘green island’ amid economically challenged states all around. Additionally, the Polish economy is picking up and this is accompanied by a relatively stable bank system which has also helped Poland to stay clear of the property bubbles suffered by some European countries in the recent past ...more
