The Polish government has organized the nation’s first shopping receipt lottery aimed at boosting budget income from sales taxes. The nation’s economic growth is mainly based on local demand, but there is also significant tax evasion. That has become a […]
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Imagine it’s 1945 … a train pulls in and soldiers load it up with chests of Nazi gold. It’s a myth so powerful here in southwest Poland that history buffs staged a re-enactment recently. In reality, amateur treasure hunters Andrei […]
Eastern Europe may not like refugees but needs them more than other countries WITH their pristine rooms and green courtyard, the new psychiatric clinic and geriatric and dermatological wards cost $19m. But what the hospital in Bydgoszcz in north-west P…
The aftermath of the October election is unlikely to affect Poland’s growth in the short- to medium-term, but a slowdown in reform could lead to slower convergence with the richer western Europe, Moody’s rating agency lead analyst on Poland said. […]
Russia’s ambassador to Poland withdraws assertion that Poland was partially responsible for the 1939 Nazi invasion and the outbreak of the Second World War. Russia’s ambassador to Warsaw has withdrawn comments he made suggesting Poland was partly responsible for the […]
WHEN European Union interior ministers met on Monday to discuss a plan to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers between them, Poland, the largest and most powerful of the EU’s central and eastern members, quietly helped to shelve it. Unlike other central […]
Poland’s warring president and prime minister have separately marked the 35th anniversary of a key deal between striking workers and communist authorities that opened the way to democracy. The ceremonies were held Monday in the Baltic port city of Gdansk, […]