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It’s been a long wait, but Poland looks set to start receiving gas through the LNG terminal in Świnoujście in north-west Poland. This will happen after obtaining all required documents to receive transport gas from the first methane carrier from Qatar arriving in Poland.

The European Union introduces the so-called Market Stability Reserve. This is bad news for Poland, because it means an increase of energy prices.

The Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency has just launched a project with CASS, one of China’s most important research institutes and advisory organization.

“The reluctance of the scientific community to cooperate with business is not due to bad intentions, but the young scientists' need to focus on the development of their careers in order to ensure the existence of their home institutions”, says Luk Palmen, an expert in the field of commercialization of new technologies and clusters.

With only several weeks to go before new legislation kicks in, Poland's biggest power producers are upping the stakes in their attempts to go green. Or perhaps to show willing.

In the countries of CSE region subsequent projects on construction of nuclear power plants have been unsuccessful. The question of the economic sense of their development in Poland recurs, including the on-going election campaign.

The Czech Republic and Hungary are ahead of Poland in terms of advancement in highway construction, whereas expressways are being built at a similar pace.

Poland is late with the construction of three regional broadband networks. The country is in danger of losing PLN600m subsidies from EU. More than 100 such projects are being implemented. A project in Romania is also at risk, while Lithuania fared very well.

Special economic zones are beneficial for regions that are at intermediate stages of development. In most cases they have not added to the growth of local communities.

Poland is one of the leading OECD countries, but not in spending on research and development or pre capita income – instead, Poland is a leader in supplying foreign countries with emigrants with higher vocational and university education. The consequences are severe. Therefore, it is not surprising that arguments about the need to open ourselves to immigrants from the East are increasingly common.