Tag: Ukraine

Polish building-material manufacturers are facing growing competition from cheaper imports from outside the EU, particularly in energy-intensive sectors. Ceramic-tile imports from non-EU countries have risen sharply while domestic production and employment have fallen.

Imports of bituminous roofing membranes have fallen sharply since sanctions restricted products from Russia and Belarus. Polish producers now export more than twice as much rolled bituminous membrane as the country imports, but the industry fears renewed price pressure if sanctions are lifted.

OpenAI is extending access to its Daybreak cyberdefense program to the Government of Ukraine, working with the Ministry of Digital Transformation to help teams identify software vulnerabilities and develop and test fixes faster.

Vladimir Putin says Russia’s parliamentary election shows support for the country’s military course. United Russia won 355 of 450 State Duma seats according to official results, in a vote held under tightly restricted political competition.

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov are meeting in New York as Washington explores limited ceasefire arrangements and broader ways to reduce fighting in Ukraine.

Śnieżka Group reported PLN 380.3 million in first-half revenue, with EBITDA up 2% to PLN 67.8 million and net profit rising 14.3% to PLN 35.7 million despite mixed sales trends across its key markets.

Poland’s impact start-up ecosystem is expanding, but founders still need to convince investors that measurable social or environmental benefits can be combined with a viable return. PARP is adding acceleration support and a new Business Impact competition.

United Russia won 355 of 450 seats in Russia’s State Duma, according to near-final Central Election Commission data. The party received 57.83% of the party-list vote and retained a constitutional majority.

Russia’s 2026 federal budget deficit could reach 3% of GDP, nearly twice the original 1.6% target, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said. The government plans additional domestic borrowing and is prioritising military spending.

Synektik Baltic has signed a EUR 9.4 million net contract to deliver Estonia’s first da Vinci system supplied by the group. The agreement includes nine years of service and ten years of consumables.

Europe’s fear of war index reached 22.96 points on 14 September, its highest daily reading of 2026. In just two days, coverage of Russian attacks in western Ukraine generated 28,900 publications and nearly 807 million potential media contacts, according to the Institute of Media Monitoring (IMM).

A Russian drone struck a Kyiv–Warsaw passenger train just 2 km from Poland. Hours later, Donald Trump urged Volodymyr Zelensky to stop targeting Russian diesel infrastructure, citing global fuel shortages.

Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine cost the Polish economy an estimated PLN 490.1 billion in lost GDP between 2022 and 2025, according to preliminary calculations by Statistics Poland. Households bore the largest share of the economic loss, at PLN 292.1 billion.

Poland had 953,060 people under temporary protection at the end of July 2026, accounting for 21.5% of the EU total. The number fell by 8,110 during the month, while the EU-wide total increased to 4.43 million.