The Polish Parliament, the lower house of parliament (Sejm), on Thursday voted in favour of reducing the Personal Income Tax (PIT) rate to 12 per cent from 17 per cent as of July 1, 2022.
Russia's gas giant Gazprom said on Thursday it would no longer be able to export gas through Poland via the Yamal-Europe pipeline due to Moscow's sanctions on the owner of the pipeline's Polish section, Reuters news agency has reported citing the Russian company.
A politician close to Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of Poland's Law and Justice party (PiS), which heads the ruling United Right coalition, has said the country might face early elections, possibly this summer, if its coalition partners fail to comply with the party’s demands for unity.
Poland’s ambassador to Moscow has reiterated the official regrets expressed by the Polish foreign minister over an incident in Warsaw on Monday when the Russian ambassador had red paint thrown over him.
The Polish embassy building in Moscow was covered with red paint. It is probably the revenge of Russian citizens for Monday’s events in Poland, when Russian Ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreyev, was doused with red paint at the Soviet Military Mausoleum in Warsaw by. The Russian authorities request the Polish authorities to apologize for the incident with the Russian ambassador.
Iga Świętek entered the WTA 1000 tournament in Rome with a 6:3, 6:0 win over Elena-Gabriela Ruse. The Polish tennis player, who had defended her title in Italy last year, qualified for the 1/8 final against Viktoria Azarenko.
Agata Fugat, a conducting student from the Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music in Katowice, was the winner of the 5th edition of the ‘Conjugation’ art festival in Rawicz. In this edition, the participants presented their author’s songs.
Polish gas storage tanks have been filled to 84 per cent capacity and the country needs no Russian gas now, Jacek Sasin, a deputy prime minister and the state assets minister, has said.
Mateusz Morawiecki, Poland's prime minister, has written in UK daily The Telegraph that it is not sufficient to support Ukraine in its war with Russia, but that the Russian president's "monstrous new ideology" must be rooted out entirely.
At the Dutch TTF hub on Tuesday morning, natural gas is cheaper in the June contract by 3.39 per cent to about 90.6 euros per MWh. Brent crude oil is cheaper by 1.09 per cent to 104.79 dollars per barrel. The price of a barrel of WTI crude oil on the New York Stock Exchange also drops by 0.93% to 102.13 USD per barrel.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has revised Poland's projected GDP growth in 2023 to 3.5 per cent from 4.5 per cent, according to the EBRD's latest report.
Poland can claim compensation from Russia for the 1940 Katyn Massacre of over 20,000 Polish POWs by Soviet security forces, Poland's president said on Monday.
Poland's rate-setting Monetary Policy Council (MPC) will likely continue to raise interest rates on a monthly basis, without breaks, Ludwik Kotecki, a member of the council, has said.
Mateusz Morawiecki, the Polish prime minister, said on Monday that the final elements of an agreement with the European Commission on Poland’s National Recovery Plan (NRP) will soon be in place.
How some people behave towards paramedics staggers the imagination. The crew of an ambulance was called to an unconscious man who had gotten drunk. While he was being helped, bottles and vulgar screams flew toward the helpers. Someone even tried to urinate on the ambulance crew. The lifeguard warns that “if someone is not interested in what is happening on one of the streets in Katowice, there will be a tragedy.”
A 20-year-old woman in the shelter of Kalisz was attacked by a dog which bit her ear off, the head of shelter Jacek Kołatka said. He added that the woman went into the box even though she had been trained before and “knew she was not allowed to do so when the animal was in the room.”
There was an accident on the A14 motorway in Germany at night from Thursday to Friday that resulted in the driver of a sports Porsche being decapitated. Polish drivers were involved in an attempt to stop the damaged vehicle.
