Since October 2022, Russia has systematically and methodically been destroying Ukraine’s critical infrastructure. The percentage of heavily damaged energy infrastructure is continuously growing and, according to partners of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, already exceeded 60% before Christmas 2022…

 “Business for Ukraine Center” is a project of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers (ZPP) and the Totalizator Sportowy Foundation, which aims to support the development of Polish-Ukrainian economic relations in the difficult conditions of war and continued attacks by the Russian army on infrastructure and industrial facilities in Ukraine. The center is expected to help several hundred entrepreneurs and companies from Ukraine…

Recent years have not been conducive to macroeconomic forecasts. Traditional time-series econometrics works well especially in conditions of relative calmness.  Although a properly constructed model is resistant to shocks (those fade over time), geopolitical chaos makes forecasting based on the past complicated. Under such conditions, machine learning models or neural networks can be used…

In Poland, the number of persons receiving a pension is growing. Based on the Statistics Poland data, approximately 5.98 million persons were receiving pension in the period from January to April 2021. After a slight decline in the period from May to August, the number of beneficiaries increased to 5.999 million in September and was growing.  In October 2021, 6.02 million persons were receiving pension, 6.03 million in November and 6.04 million in December of the same year…

                                                                                                              Warsaw, 20 December 2022   Commentary of the ZPP on draft Regulation of the Council of  the European Commission on the development of renewable energy as a key form of achieving energy independence of Europe   The Council of the European Commission is proposing another instrument to speed up investment in RES (Renewable Energy […]

On 13 December, a conference summarising the project of the ZPP (the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers), “Europe – Poland – Ukraine. Rebuild Together” took place. This was another initiative of the ZPP, following the social campaign “We help Ukraine”, the purpose of which was to create and strengthen the relationship between European, Polish and Ukrainian business communities and to prepare a framework for cooperation in the future reconstruction of the Ukrainian state and economy…