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Employers lobby slams gov't economic plan

Poland's National Recovery Plan (KPO) is a collection of random investments in which state-owned enterprises are offered undue preferences, the Lewiatan Confederation has said.

Most Polish companies plan lay-offs - employer lobby

Sixty-nine percent of companies interviewed by the employers' organisation Lewiatan said they were planning redundancies in the coming two months, and more than 50 percent plan to dismiss between 20 and 50 percent of their staff.

Bright sparks meet to chew the cud at European Forum of New Ideas

Now in its eighth year, the European Forum of New Ideas is one of the region’s top events examining global trends and their impact in Poland and beyond

Top 5 articles:

  • Mayor offers reward to first couple to have a boy in village where only girls are born
  • It’s official! Kraków is the best place in Europe for food, says European Academy of Gastronomy
  • Poland in COVID-19 LOCKDOWN! PM orders bars, restaurants, shopping centres and borders closed - and cancels ALL flights
  • Villager finds stash of 17th-century coins after falling off his bike while looking for mushrooms
  • The systematic massacre of all children under 10 will forever be a stain on humanity, says TFN’s Stuart Dowell
Business | Life

Race on to save Warsaw’s oldest hairdressing salon

Opened in 1933, the family-run Modik Warszawa has long had deep roots in the capital’s social history having served generations of Varsovians. But now, despite surviving WWII, Stalinism and Martial Law, Warsaw’s oldest hairdressing salon is now facing closure.

The first report:

  • Minsk accuses Poland of aerial incursion, Warsaw issues denial
  • Poland's KGHM ranked world's largest silver producing company in 2020
  • Polish-Belarusian minority journalist summoned to prosecutor's office
  • Justice of peace courts may need changes to constitution - president
  • Poland's C/A surplus at EUR 1.6 billion after February - central bank

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Forgotten composer who played for Polish king and co-founded Edinburgh Festival rediscovered after distant relative finds online ad for his rare piano

Josie Dixon had little idea that her great-great-great-great grandfather Felix Yaniewicz was one of the 19th century’s most notable composers until a chance conversation about a Stradivarius violin led her on a path of discovery.

The Debrief
Rocking it! New UNESCO Geopark opens in Holy Cross Mountains
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Caught red-handed between the past and the future, Praga is a sensory explosion of noise and colour

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