Poland.

What goes on in Poland on 3rd of December 2020?

PKN Orlen is a fuel company that produces and sells oil products in Central and Eastern Europe. Within a decade it wants to transform into a multi-utility powerhouse that profits from generation and sale of power from renewables, and from processing oil for the chemical industry – writes Bartłomiej Sawicki, editor at BiznesAlert.pl.

In recent years, Poland has opened to the Baltic Sea in unprecedented ways. However, no political force that was in power after 1989 has treated the Baltic as an area worth protecting, and the Polish Navy as a kind of armed forces worth investing in and modernizing. This is especially dangerous considering, for instance, what […]

What goes on in Poland on the 30th of November.

After an almost 2-month long wait, the Council of Ministers did not adopt the Promotion of the Electricity Generation in the Offshore Wind Farms Act (the Draft Act), yet again. At the beginning of December the Draft Act will be submitted to the lower chamber of the Parliament (the Sejm). BiznesAlert.pl asked lawyers what they […]

What goes on in Poland on the 27th of November.

Polska Grupa Górnicza needs about PLN 2 billion a year to function and to prevent social protests, once the decision to close it is made. However, apart from spending money on shutting down mines, public aid for the coal sector in the EU may be problematic. What do lawyers have to say about the possibility […]

What goes on in Poland on the 26th of November.

Janusz Piechociński, Poland’s former economy minister, believes the country’s energy policy should be more pragmatic. „This is better than throwing a fit, after which someone may ask what we won, to which we’ll answer that all we got was a headache,” the BiznesAlert.pl interlocutor said.

What goes on in Poland on the 25th of November.