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The economies of Poland and the European Union are going through hard times. Since the beginning of March 2020, the world has been struggling with a pandemic, and in spite of a pronounced recovery in 2021, the new COVID-19 variants keep the global economy from healing completely. To boot, the pandemic is one of the sources of yet another problem that we have fallen victims to in recent months: soaring inflation…
Opinion of the Chief Economist of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers on the economic benefits of transformation and accession to the EU
Systemic transformation of our region began in a formal sense over three decades ago. Apart from the Polish general elections on 4th June or the wave of protests in the countries of the so-called people’s democracy, one of its most momentous events, was the fall of the Berlin Wall. It marked the beginning of the process of German reunification (following the German unification of the 19th century), which ended in October 1990. Thirty years ago, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, although this did not mean the collapse of the Soviet, and later Russian sphere of influence…
Updated 2022 Economic Forecast of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers
2021 was a year of economic rebound after the crisis caused by the COVID-19 epidemic a year before. Economy’s return to a state of ‘relative normal’ after a period of lockdowns and restrictions does not mean, however, that the risk related to the pandemic have disappeared from the landscape entirely…
Opinion of the Chief Economist of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers on rising prices of raw materials for energy
Prices of raw materials used for energy production have increased drastically over the last year. It was all the more dramatic as the recession that took place due to the COVID-19 pandemic lowered those prices “temporarily” to their lowest levels in more than a decade. Over a dozen or so months, prices rose from exceptionally low to extremely high…
