In the coming era, the challenges for Poland will be the decreasing working-age population, the increase in the burden on the health care system and the relatively low quality of higher education, experts from McKinsey & Company indicated.more
CBŚP officers with the support of Spanish colleagues and Europol have broken up the 'Kamela' gang, which smuggled drugs from Spain via the Netherlands and Germany to Poland. During the operation, 20 people were detained, including 14 in Poland, who heard charges in the West Pomeranian division of the National Public Prosecutor's Office.more
According to a survey conducted by UCE RESEARCH and the SkipWish Group on a group of over 1,000 adult Poles, 21.9% of respondents intend to spend between PLN 50 and PLN 100 on a gift for one person on Children's Day. 15% of people declared spending PLN 100-150, and 11.4% - PLN 150-200.more
The Polish tax office checks its taxpayers on Facebook, Instagram and commercial platforms, Law.pl reports. By browsing photos and advertisements, the tax office looks for information about people who do not pay taxes, underestimate them, run businesses without registration or treat holiday expenses as business travel expenses.more
29 per cent of parents have a clear vision of the work their offspring would do in the future, and 61 per cent of respondents do not want to interfere in their child's choice of profession, according to the Pracuj.pl survey. A third of parents worry that their children will make the same career mistakes as them.more
President Andrzej Duda, Warsaw mayor, PO deputy leader Rafał Trzaskowski and Poland 2050 leader Szymon Holownia are the leaders of the May trust ranking, according to a CBOS poll. PO leader Donald Tusk, PiS president Jarosław Kaczyński and Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro (SP) are the most distrusted.more
65.1 percent Poles are convinced that increasing the 500 plus benefit to PLN 800 will increase inflation in Poland. 1.9 percent of respondents believe that an increase in inflation will reduce inflation, according to an IBRiS survey for Radio ZET.more
58 percent of respondents are against Poland's resignation from the right of veto in the EU, 11 percent were in favor of it. surveyed, 31 percent has no opinion on the matter, according to the Social Changes survey for the wPolityce.pl portal.more
Research conducted by CBOS shows that 32 percent. surveyed women aged 18-45 plan to have children in the near or long term, while 68 percent. there are no such plans. Couples do not want to decide to have a child at this time for many reasons.more
EU regulations are intended to eliminate short-term renting 'on the black', i.e. without taxes, announced Leon Kozminski Academy expert Dr Ewa Kiczmachowska.more
As the latest analysis showed, "Price index in retail stores", toilet paper in April this year. increased by as much as 63.2% year on year. Among the 100 products most often bought by consumers, it took as much as 3rd position in this ranking. Experts explain this high production costs that are passed on to consumers. However, bad
predictions are coming.more
More than 80 per cent of Polish companies employ Ukrainian nationals; in more than a third of companies, the percentage of Ukrainians employed ranges between 10-20 per cent of the total staff, according to a study by analytical centre Gremi Personal.more
"From a legal point of view, the reparations issue is closed; this topic is Pandora's box and it is better that this box remains untouched" - announced the German ambassador to Poland, Thomas Bagger, in an interview with Polish Radio 24 today.more
Polish children are lower than their peers in other countries in our region. This surprised me, because until now we have only focused on the body mass index BMI and we knew that Polish children are putting on weight at the fastest rate in Europe," noted Professor Anna Fijałkowska from the Institute of Mother and Child in Warsaw.more
"We are supporting our most important ally, Poland; we are sending a clear and strong signal that we will stand shoulder to shoulder with Poland if anything should happen." - announced yesterday UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace.more
It is possible to report any case concerning a living perpetrator of pedophilia - emphasizes the Commission for Pedophilia in an appeal addressed to victims of sexual abuse in the People's Republic of Poland by clergy and lay people working in the Church. The list of over 100 perpetrators was recently published by "Rzeczpospolita".more
Eighty-one percent of respondents declared that John Paul II is a moral authority for them, including 58 percent who stated this strongly. Fourteen percent of respondents held the opposite view, according to a new CBOS poll.more
According to the Ministry of Development and Technology, in the first quarter of this year 59.7 thousand were entered into the CEIDG register (Central Register and Information on Economic Activity). applications for termination of sole proprietorship. This is 5.6% less than in the corresponding period of 2022, when there were 63.2 thousand such cases.more
According to data from the National Health Fund, last year the total cost of dental services financed from public funds exceeded PLN 2.2 billion. Experts commenting on these data emphasize that the above-mentioned expenses are still disproportionate to the costs incurred by doctors. That is why many of them resign from signing contracts with the National Health Fund.more
88 percent of respondents believe that Poland is a country where they live safely. 96 percent also believe that their immediate neighborhood is safe and peaceful. 83 percent have not been the victim of any crime in the past five years, according to the CBOS survey.more
Kolobrzeg, Gdansk, Mielno, Jastrzebia Gora, Ostroda, Ilawa, Zakopane - these are the most popular destinations for this year's vacations, according to data from booking portal Travelist.pl.more
Poles are starting to count down the days to summer rest, but this year they did it earlier than usual. Many people plan their vacation more than a few months in advance. Analysts of eSky.pl - travel organization platforms - collected customer searches from Poland for the period June-August 2023 and share forecasts for this year's holiday hits.more
For the first time in history, over 17 million people worked in the Polish economy, noted Andrzej Kubisiak, Deputy Director of the Polish Economic Institute, referring to Eurostat data. He added that since the pandemic, the Polish labor market has seen clearly better dynamics than the EU as a whole.more
Consumer pessimism is on the rise, as up to 91 percent of Poles are looking for cheaper places to shop, according to the "EY Future Consumer Index 2023" survey. 31 percent rate their situation compared to 3-4 months ago as worse, an increase of 20 percentage points from the previous survey.more
The Cabinet today approved a bill on another additional annual cash benefit for pensioners. This is a bill introducing the payment of the so-called 14th pension on a permanent basis, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced.more