Author Archives: Viktoria Prasslsberger

Locked content WizzAir to launch base at Lublin airport

September 15, 2015 Poland AM
Since 2012, Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has been operating from Lublin airport. They are now planning to open an operating base due to a huge increase in flights and passengers. In 2014 the airline transported 80,000 clients, the amount of passengers up to the end of 2015 is predicted to tot...

Car registrations up by 17,8 % in August

September 15, 2015 Economy
The number of new passenger cars  registered  in Poland during August reached 23 559 , according to data from the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association (ACEA) published by Exact Systems. This represents a year-on-year purchase increase  of 17,8 percent.

Locked content Modlin – fastest developing European airport

September 14, 2015 Poland AM
Modlin, Warsaw’s suburban airport, was announced to be the most quickly developing airport in Europe. This year it reported a 61,5 percent increase in passenger traffic compared to last year. Statistics show that from the beginning of the year to the end of August as many as 1,7 million passen...

Locked content Poland reaches 47th place in EFI report

September 14, 2015 Poland AM
The yearly report of the Economic Freedom Network showed that Poland climbed to 47th place out of 156 countries as far as the issue of economic freedom is concerned. Poland chalked up 7.29 points out of 10. The  world average is 6.86, whereas last year it was 6.84. When calculating the Economic Free...

Locked content Małopolska to pioneer participatory budgeting scheme

September 14, 2015 Poland AM
Marek Sowa, marshall of the voivodship, announced that in 2016 as much as PLN 6 million will be divided between five subregions in Małopolska and Kraków. “We are the first region, which has introduced a participatory budget at a voivodship level. We want to realize projects on a district level...

Locked content Eurostat: industrial production up by 3.9%

September 14, 2015 Poland AM
Seasonally adjusted industrial production in Poland increased by 3.9 percent year to year in July, according to data published by Eurostat. Month to month, production grew by 0.1 percent. Throughout the European Union, seasonally adjusted industrial production increased by 1.8 percent y/y and by 0.3...

Locked content BASF’s investment opened in Wrocław

September 14, 2015 Poland AM
On Thursday, German company BASF, which operates on the chemistry market,  opened their new  science center and laboratory Humanitarium in the EIT+ research center in Wrocław. The center is aimed at children and youths enabling them to experience chemistry and show that it is not only a boring schoo...

Locked content Norco to build furniture factory in Ciechanów

September 9, 2015 Economy, Poland AM
The Norwegian furniture producing company Norco invested over PLN 20 million in Ciechanów (Mazowieckie voivodship) at the end of August by building a factory along with an administrative department. The spokesperson of the Ciechanów City Hall informed that the Norwegian investor will construct a fac...

Polish exports to be promoted on 13 markets

September 9, 2015 Economy
In 2016 Polish agriculture and food export will concentrate and promote mostly on 13 markets. Some of these are: the United Arab Emirates, Singapore, India, Japan, China, Canada, Algeria, Saudi Arabia, USA, South Africa, Egypt and Vietnam.