Analysis
Poland is Europe’s leading producer of lithium-ion batteries and second globally, behind only China. But the future of the industry is now in question as the EU considers tougher emissions rules that could hit Poland’s coal-dependent economy in particular.
Poles purchased almost 3,000 residential properties in Spain in 2022, a record figure and annual rise of 160%. I visited the Costa Blanca to look at what is behind this trend and how the growing Polish presence is being felt.
In the three decades that have passed since the failed nuclear power plant project in Żarnowiec, the history of nuclear power in Poland has almost come full circle. The present government is again pressing ahead with long-term plans to build the country’s first nuclear plants, and is again facing some local resistance.
Katarzyna Lipka is no longer Catholic, and she says that is a political statement.
Right-wing Poles faced a hard decision in a runoff to the 2020 presidential election. They were choosing between what they called “two evils”.
