The Polish and Slovak prime ministers met in Warsaw on Friday to discuss ways to boost bilateral trade amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki told reporters after the meeting that trade between the two neighbouring countries had grown by more than a third in recent years. “This phenomenal growth has been somewhat halted by the epidemic, but we have plans on how to make our business expand again” he said. Morawiecki encouraged Slovak companies to invest in Poland and tourists from that country to visit Poland. Morawiecki held bilateral talks with Slovakia’s new Prime Minister Igor Matovič ahead of a summit of leaders from the Visegrad Group in Warsaw on Friday. The Visegrad Group is a regional cooperation platform that brings together Poland, Slovakia, the Czech Republic and Hungary.
Source – Polskie Radio
Unemployment in Poland was a modest 3 percent in May, the second-lowest rate in the 27-nation European Union, the bloc’s statistics agency has reported, amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The Czech Republic boasted the lowest unemployment in the European Union in May, at 2.4 percent, while the Netherlands trailed Poland in third place, with 3.6 percent, according to the Eurostat agency.Meanwhile, Spain had the highest jobless rate in the EU, at 14.6 percent, while Greek unemployment was the second-highest at 14.4 percent, the agency said on Thursday.
Source – Polskie Radio
NATO has put a defence plan for Poland and the Baltic states into action after Turkey dropped its objections to the plan this week, according to officials.
NATO leaders agreed in December to the plan at a summit in London, but Turkey had until now blocked the plan unless NATO recognised the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria as terrorists. Turkey’s foreign ministry declined to comment on how the deadlock was resolved, however Lithuanian officials have repeatedly said that they were seeking stronger air defense and swifter deployment of allied forces in case of crisis.
Source – AFP, Reuters, dailysabah
And finally, Gdańsk has topped the rankings of the most people friendly cities in Poland in a recent survey. The international bi-weekly Forbes which is famous for publishing annual financial and business rankings has published a list of people friendly Polish cities and Gdańsk comes top.
The city scored 90 out of possible 100 points in questions on topics such as civic budget allocation, pedestrian and cyclists provision, public transport, and treatment of various groups of its citizens. Lublin and Warsaw came in 2nd and 3rd place, while Szczeczin and Opole came in 9th and 10th respectively.
Source – gdansk.pl
Today will be a warm day with sunny intervals and a moderate breeze and temperatures reaching 25degrees centigrade (77degrees Fahrenheit) during the day, dropping to 15degrees centigrade overnight. Sunday will remain much the same with temperatures reaching 24 degrees centigrade during the day, and 16 degrees overnight.
