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🇵🇱✨ Daily Polish biz insights & sharp political commentary in English. Uncovering Poland & CEE's potential. #PolandBiz #CEEgrowth. Follow me!

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Selvita just scooped up PozLab for a cool PLN 25M, grabbing 100% of the shares. Looks like they're not just playing in the small-molecule sandbox anymore, they're building the whole playground!

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Macron is reading the job description like: 'EU Defense Commissioner needed. Must handle a breezy €100 billion and juggle international politics. Sounds tailor-made for me, right?'

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Kuwait 🇰🇼 is under attack by Iran

They got Iraq; they tried with Bahrain and Kuwait

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Fastest way to Brussels “The Retirement House”, career wise

Be a failed politician in your home country, bend the knee and swear loyalty

You get the job!

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Poland's Ministry of Energy and Technology proposes more wood in construction, cutting the required distance for building walls to 4 meters on irregular plots. But how is using more trees greener than concrete and glass?

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Polish government dodges external audits for the Central Communication Port.

Why the secrecy?

Maybe they just don't have the guts to admit that a real audit could rile up Germany.

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Poland's card transactions hit PLN 310.2B in Q4 2023, down 0.8% from the previous quarter, per NBP. Cashless transactions dominate at 95%, with a notable 28% YOY growth in online transactions totaling PLN 12.2B. Contactless cards make up 97.2% of the 45.2M cards in circulation.…

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Poland's telecom market reached PLN 42.9B in 2023, up from PLN 40.63B in 2022, reports UKE. Investment in telecom infrastructure hit PLN 11.6B. With 10.2M fixed-line internet users and 14.2M bundled service subscribers, SMEs played a big role, generating PLN 6.5B.…

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Poland's mining sector faces challenges with high coal dumps & squeezed profits, says Marta Jarno at the European Economic Congress. Despite profit, cash flow struggles due to surplus & market misreads. PGG adjusts production & explores new storage to manage 85% full dumps.…

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Dino Polska's Q1 2024 shines: 📈 Net profit up to PLN 295.25M from PLN 270.65M YOY, operating profit at PLN 397.52M. Sales surge 20% to PLN 6.67B, driven by network expansion & strong store sales. Despite rising costs, EBITDA grows 7.4% to PLN 492.1M.

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👉 Over 60% of Polish employees use generative AI daily, says Microsoft.

👉 Nearly 70% of leaders view AI as crucial for competitiveness,

👉 and users in Poland are 149% more inclined to experiment with it. Copilot for M365 is now available in Polish, aiding this adoption.…

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Shell Polska's boss shuts down rumors: no plans to sell their Polish gas stations, despite the buzz around the PCK Schwedt refinery sale. It's business as usual with a focus on quality over quantity.

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Wow, that was fast!

PM Tusk's government reshuffle goes from rumor to reality quicker than you can say 'cabinet crisis.'

Four ministers out, new ones in, all in a day's work. Efficiency or rush job?

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Poland & Ukraine sign a pivotal digital tech agreement to enhance IT, AI, e-administration, and app development.

It builds on prior efforts like supporting Starlink and infrastructure costs—shoutout to the previous government's foundational work!

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Polish PMI nosedives to a six-month low, but who's counting?

New orders and production are tanking, jobs sliding, prices skyrocketing. The pain is here in Poland, cries echo in Germany.

Time to kill the dependency?



— Based on April's PMI…

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Polish businesses pausing investments? Say it isn’t so! Regulatory chaos, sky-high costs, and crumbling infrastructure, yet everyone’s shocked.

But hey, 'It isn’t me who said and PiS is no more in power.'

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