GDP at 3.1% in Q2

Poland’s gross domestic product grew by 3.1 percent year-on-year 0.9 percent quarter-on-quarter in the second quarter of 2016, according to a flash estimate published by the Central Statistical Office (GUS) on Friday. Economists had expected the GDP growth in Q2 to be higher, at 3.3 percent y/y. GUS will publish revised estimates of GDP growth on August 31.