Ukraine and Poland plan to create an Eastern European gas hub that will replace the transit of Russian gas for Europe. According to Deputy Energy Minister Mykola Kolisnyk, the completion of Russian gas transit through Ukraine will begin competition for new routes and resources, including LNG, which is becoming an incr... #EnergyHubPoland #GasHub #GasstorageUkraine #MykolaKolisnyk #Poland #UkraineGTS
How is the policy regarding Ukrainian refugees changing in European countries after almost three years of war? The Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Parliament has finally approved the Lex Ukrajina VII law that will extend temporary protection for Ukrainian refugees. The current protection expires on March 31. ... #CzechRepublic #Germany #Lithuania #Poland #RefugeesFromUkraine
Poland will provide Ukraine with a new military aid package worth €100M and supports Ukraine’s simulataneous accession to the EU and NATO. The Polish government plans to transfer a new aid package to Ukraine in January, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in Lviv. He said the 46th support package will include weapons and equipment wor... #DonaldTusk #EuropeanIntegration #MilitaryAid #NATOUkraine #Poland #SupportUkraine #WarEnding
To avoid a shortage of scrap metal in the domestic market, Ukraine increased its export duty. How has Ukraine traded scrap metal in the last six years? According to analysts, in 2019 Ukraine exported 42,180 tons of scrap for $11.8M. In 2020, exports decreased by 15.1%, in monetary terms, to $9.5M. But in pre-war 2021, ferrous scrap exports increased ... #Germany #Poland #ScrapExport #Turkey #UkraineEconomy #UkraineExport #UkraineScrapMetal
Norway will provide Ukraine with more than $240M to strengthen its maritime defense, and the US will try to spend its remaining aid funds in the coming weeks. Norway has announced an additional NRK 2.7B ($242.38M) donation to strengthen Ukraine’s maritime defense. The funds will go toward protecting civilians from attacks, clearing landmines, and training U... #F16training #Italy #MilitaryAid #Norway #Poland #WarinUkraine #WhiteHouse
Poland is calling on Germany to immediately increase defense spending, while France is ramping up purchases of long-range weapons. Poland’s Deputy Defense Minister Cezary Tomczyk believes that Central Europe, including Germany, should increase its defense spending to set an example for other countries following Trump’s victory, w... #CezaryTomczyk #DefenseIndustry #DefenseSpending #France #Germany #Poland
Polish cement producers are demanding protection from Ukrainian imports. In 2020, supplies of Ukrainian cement to Poland amounted to 32,000 tons, in 2021 – 52,600 tons, in 2022 – 101,700 tons, in 2023 – up to 340,000 tons. This year, imports from Ukraine are expected to re... #CementProduction #Poland #UkraineCement #UkraineExport #UkraineTrade
Ukraine’s trade turnover for the first 11 months of the year exceeded last year’s indicator by almost $2.5B. According to the State Customs Service, Ukraine’s trade turnover in January-November amounted to $101.9B: imports – $63.6B, exports – $38.3B. Ukraine imported the most goods from China – $13B, P... #China #Poland #UkraineExport #UkraineForeignTrade #UkraineImport #UkraineTradeTurnover
A Polish broad-gauge operator expands in anticipation of the post-war boom in traffic to Ukraine. Polish company PKP Linia Hutnicza Szerokotorowa, part of the state-owned PKP group that operates a nearly 400-kilometer broad-gauge railway connecting with Ukraine, is investing in expanding and moder... #IronOre #Poland #PolishPKP #RailwayInfrastructure
A Polish contractor will continue the construction of a waste recycling plant in Lviv with an annual capacity of 240,000 tons. Lviv municipal enterprise Green City signed an agreement with Polish contractor Control Process SA to continue the construction of a waste recycling plant in Lviv. The waste recycling project also rec... #ControlProcessSA #ebrd #GreenCity #Poland #WasteProcessingPlant #WasteRecycling #Львів
Poland’s stance could derail EU-Ukraine trade talks. According to Politico, Poland provides Ukraine with military aid, takes in refugees, and advocates for its interests in the EU, but it maintains a negative attitude towards Ukrainian agricultural expo... #agroexportukraine #Poland #TradeAgreement #TradeLiberalization #TradeRestriction
Germany provides Ukraine with a military aid package containing ammunition and hundreds of UAVs. The German government announced another package of military aid for Ukraine, which includes tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition of various types, 47 vehicles with mine protection (MRAP), four Pa... #Germany #MilitaryAidforUkraine #NorthKoreanSoldiers #Panzerhaubitze2000 #Poland #WarinUkraine #WISENT1
Europe must double its defense spending after Trump’s inauguration; Poland will produce explosives and ammunition. Europe will probably have to double its defense spending to address the challenge of Russia’s aggression against Ukraine, as well as a possible reduction in American support with Donald Trump... #DefenseIndustryEU #EUdefense #NATO #Poland #WarinUkraine #WeaponsProduction
During the 1,000 days of the war, Polish businesses have opened 300 companies in Ukraine and are preparing for its reconstruction. Experts believe that Ukraine can become the same opportunity for Polish companies as Poland was for German companies in the early 90s. Polish companies are not leaving Ukraine, although many are ̶... #JacekPiechota #Poland #PolishBusiness #UkraineReconstruction
A Ukrainian investment fund is expanding its retail space portfolio in Poland to €300M. A leader in Polish commercial real estate, the Newgate Investment Fund belongs to the founder of the chain of Comfy stores, Stanislav Ronis. The value of the company’s portfolio is already estim... #Comfy #CommercialRealEstate #investments #NewgateInvestmentFund #Poland #ShoppingCenters
Prolonged power outages in Ukraine provoke a new wave of refugees; the NBU worsens its forecast for personnel shortages and returning Ukrainians. In Ukraine, increased pressure on commercial activities due to a lack of workers in the third quarter of the year was due to an increase in migration outflow that was beyond expectations, mainly due t... #ElectricityDeficitUkraine #Germany #Migration #Poland #RefugeesFromUkraine #Spain
A Ukrainian manufacturer of non-ferrous metal products launches a €19M cable production plant in Poland. One of the largest producers of non-ferrous metal products in Ukraine, Electro Cable Group, launched a cable production plant in the Polish city of Zabrze in June. The key argument in Poland’s f... #ElectroCableGroup #investments #MetallurgyUkraine #NonFerrous #Poland #ukrainianbusiness
Issues related to the interception of missiles over Ukraine may be discussed next week at the NATO ministerial meeting, the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Poland, Radoslaw Sikorski, said. “This discussion is about where the right to self-defense begins and where it ends. Do we have the right to shoot ... #AirDefenseSystems #KrzysztofGawkowski #NATO #Poland #RadosławSikorski #RussianMissiles #WarinUkraine
Congress calls on Biden to allow Poland to shoot down Russian missiles over Ukraine. The bipartisan leaders of the US Helsinki Commission are calling on President Biden to allow Poland to expand its air defenses in the skies over Ukraine, helping shoot down Russian missiles in self-de... #AirDefenseSystems #JoeBiden #NATO #Poland #RussianMissiles #WarinUkraine
Ukrainians bought 7,700 apartments in Poland last year, although Polish real estate is 200% more expensive than in Ukraine. According to the Polish Central Bank, last year Ukrainians bought real estate in Poland with a total area of almost 380,000 square meters. This is despite the fact that in Poland, due to a real esta... #Poland #PolandApartments #RealEstatePoland #UkrainiansAbroad
The EU is waiting for the US presidential election and the end of Hungary’s presidency before discussing new Russian sanctions and reassessing Ukraine’s Victory Plan. In January, EU countries plan to resume discussions about new restrictions designed to damage the Russian economy. That is when Hungary, Moscow’s closest ally in the EU, will complete its six-mo... #EUCouncil #Hungary #Poland #SanctionsAgainstRussia #USelections #VictoryPlan
Polish businesses want protection against Ukrainian steel imports. Polish metallurgical plants fear competition with Ukraine and demand that the domestic market be protected from Ukrainian steel. Polish steel manufacturers hope that Ukraine’s output will mainly... #GreenMetallurgy #MetallurgyUkraine #Poland #PolishBusiness #UkraineSteelExport
The US increases its share of European defense startup venture capital by 200%, but Poland takes the lead in European security. Against the backdrop of surging global conflict, US investors provided more than 65% of venture capital investment in European defense technology in 2024, compared to 18% last year. According to Dealr... #DefenseInvestments #DefenseTechnology #EdwardLucas #EUdefense #NATO #Poland
The EU is spending insufficiently on its defense as a whole, but Poland will allocate a record amount to this sector next year. The European Court of Auditors claims that the €1.5B budget planned by the EU for the development of the defense industry, as well as two years of other spending, is insufficient in the face of the ch... #DefenseSpending #EUdefense #NATO #Poland #WarinUkraine
The project to supply electricity from Polish TPPs to Ukraine is a non-starter. Poland’s electricity production project for Ukraine has not yet started to be implemented. In July, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced the possibility of producing electricity for Ukrai... #DonaldTusk #EnergyPoland #KhmelnytskyiNPP #Poland #PolishTPP
Warsaw offers Kyiv more than €100M in loans to repair military equipment, will contribute to the Czech initiative, and will work on transferring fighter jets. The Polish government has offered Ukraine an intergovernmental loan of more than €100M for the purchase and repair of Polish equipment used by the Ukrainian military at Polish defense plants, the head... #JATEC #KrabHowitzer #MIG29 #MilitaryAidforUkraine #Poland #UkraineNATO #WarinUkraine
During the year, another 400,000 citizens have left Ukraine; Ukrainian war refugees are now approaching seven million. From the beginning of January to August 19, the number of Ukrainian migrants abroad increased by almost 400,000 people and reaches 6.7 million people, reports the National Bank. The largest number of ... #CzechRepublic #Germany #Poland #RefugeesFromUkraine #UkraineMigrants #UkrainiansAbroad
German opposition demands the cancellation of social benefits for unemployed Ukrainian refugees, as Poland expands aid to Ukrainians. Carsten Linnemann, the general secretary of the opposition German party, the Christian Democratic Union, advocates the need to cancel financial support for Ukrainian refugees who do not work officiall... #CarstenLinnemann #Germany #Poland #RefugeesFromUkraine #RefugeesIntegration #WorkForRefugees
Ukrainian and Polish businesses sign a cooperation agreement in Warsaw. More than 200 representatives of Ukrainian and Polish businesses met in Warsaw as part of the Business in the City event. The parties signed an agreement on cooperation between Diia.Business in Warsaw... #BusinessInPoland #DiiaBusiness #Poland #ukrainianbusiness
Poland fears the outflow of Ukrainian workers due to mobilization regulations. Polish recruitment agencies predict that Ukrainian men will gradually move from Poland to countries further west in the EU. Ukrainians with military service obligations, particularly those abroad, hav... #Migration #MobilizationUkraine #Poland #RefugeesFromUkraine
Ukraine and Poland signed a security agreement to help intercept Russian missiles and drones. On July 8, Ukrainian and Polish officials signed a bilateral security agreement in Warsaw. Among the document’s key provisions is Poland’s obligation to provide several packages of militar... #DefenseIndustry #MIG29 #Poland #SecurityAgreement #SupportUkraine #WarinUkraine
Poland is ready to produce electricity for Ukraine at its TPPs. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk proposed using Polish coal-fired power plants to generate energy for Ukraine’s needs. “Currently, we are working to burn Polish coal, which we currently h... #DonaldTusk #ElectricityImportUkraine #Poland #UkraineEnergy #UkraineEnergyLosses
Poland and Slovakia plan to persuade EU countries on candidate status for Ukraine. Poland and Slovakia plan to work together to persuade those bloc countries that are currently hesitant to grant EU candidate status to Ukraine, stated Slovak President Zuzana Čaputová and Polish Pres... #AndrzejDuda #EUmembership #Poland #Slovakia #UkraineinEU #ZuzanaČaputová
The International Criminal Court will join the investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. The International Criminal Court will join the investigation of Russian war crimes in Ukraine. #ICC #KarimKhan #Lithuania #Poland #Ukrainewar
