Advertisement
Business News from Poland
|
Friday 10th February 2012
EURO 2012 economy boost
9th July 2010© Asia Kortas
The 2012 tournament will help boost the country's economy
Share:
According to a report by PL.2012, the state-owned company overseeing preparations for the football festival, the tournament, which Poland will co-host with Ukraine, should increase GDP by 2.1 percent, compared to 2009, when spread over the years 2008 to 2020.
The report says owing to the football, cumulated GDP growth could amount to PLN 27.9 bln as money pours into the country as it gets ready to host one of the world’s biggest sporting events.
In particular, investment in Poland’s road infrastructure should contribute most of the additional stimulus, acc ...
The full text of articles over six months old is only available to members of My NPE
Local Villain - The least noble Nobel winner
The tragic story of Fritz Haber
Wrocław, believe it or not, has had a total of eleven (eleven!) native-born Nobel laureates in the 20th century, beginning with Thomas Mommsen’s prize for literature in 1902 and spanning ... -
Take a walk on the wild side
Alternative culture in the heart of Wroclaw
Looking for an alternative to trendy lounges and mindless club music? Need allies for your next political action? Looking for a free place to crash? Head to CRK, Wrocław’s counter-culture ... -
Advertisement
Related stories
- Walesa chosen for 2012
- Hotel prices for EURO 2012
- Poland get ‘group of dreams’
- Ziobro’s new year party
- Anti-gay logo appeal
- Far-right logos registered
- Poles hung-ary after Italian
- Hollywood helps promote Poland
- Tourism on top
- Georgia off their minds
- Brand new - unfit for use
- EU feeling positive
- PO to take on defector
- PJN on brink of collapse
- Germans not for Warsaw
- Positively middling
- Obama visit deemed ‘success’
- Obama to return in 2013
- Gdisaster in Gdansk
- Pray and display
- Youths leave victim dead
- Duo cleared of gambling scandal
- Ape terrorises town
- Smolensk - One year on
- Kaczynski accuses Silesia of being Germans
- Change at the top
- Kid steals 12 grand
- Starving dog left to rot
- Footy filth flex muscles
- Interest rates to rise
- UK Poles still on the dole
- Starsky and Crutch
- German station sparks outrage
- PiS slams X factor Smolensk show
- Kom-tastic payout for President
- Instructors trucked off
- Lepper walks free...AGAIN!!!
- Child attempts suicide
- Jewish boycott of Poland - Not official
- Geared up for change
- Domestic demand to boost economy
- Foreign property figures falls
- Gollob – no one can stop me racing
- Hookers and hooligans
- Kaczynski in shopping blunder
- Country’s nurses go out on strike
- Peja “not guilty”
- Colin Farrell back to Poland
- President trusted
- New bill kicks out English
- New PKP President
- Record profits during EURO 2012
- Kowalczyk slams risky route
- Friendly problems for Smuda
- Sexy model flashes her stuff
- Live mines on Polish beaches
- Painting owner art to find
- Pregnant girl discovered dead
- Priest blasts dead lesbian
- Doctors slam DIY medicine
- Binned Smolensk pictures row
- Cop kills passerby - and goes free
- No change to nuclear plans
- US blasted over Jewish treatment
- Komorowski pardons criminals
- Snake escapes on train
- 72 balls of heroin in woman
- Bunga Bunga Pizza
- Looking for cheers with China
- Era in for makeover
- Polonia implodes
- Cock up in Konin
- Teddy Bear murder connection
- Storm over pensions reforms
- Jaruzelski not attending beatification
- PM called an idiot
- Poland eyes up euro
- Kulczyk rides top again
- Malysz memorial mess
- Unhappy Szczesny
- Nazi watch discovered in smuggle
- Dental victims down in the mouth
- Let us wahay!
- “F**k off” says Dubieniecki
- Scandal over stolen land
- Future rosy for gay couples
- Paedo ring off the streets
- School closures cause outrage
- Dog killer confesses
- Murdered priest buried
- 20 percent blame Russians
- Drunken crash
- Dead strange find
- A LOT of new initiatives
- Lech’s cup runs over
- Kowalczyk can’t beat asthma
- Frozen reptile found crocked
- Raunchy pics are grave mistake
- A nick of paint
- Click for a better to-marrow
- A miner problem
- It’s a gay pLOT says PiS
- Vulgar comic Cho-panned by govt
- Dove art flown back to Poland
- CBA investigate Poznan stadium
- PO’d local sues government
- Kowalczyk’s crystal ball
- Poles to stay put
- Zabka stores sold
- Poland helps Brits in Libya
- A ‘Dark and Silent’ anniversary
- Ratty woman blasts bureaucrat
- Eur kidding! Not enough rooms?
- Taxman probes 1-in-10 sex claims
- Poorly read Poles
- Spine therapy kills patient
- Jaw breaking sausage
- Headhunting for PZU president
- Kowalczyk wants to lose
- UEFA’s Siberia League
- GUS head sacked
- Students slammed over Pope joke
- Ring theft leaves church red-faced
- 14-year-old tortured granddad
- IPN wasted dead hero cash
- Doc faked Olewnik death certificate
- A right shower
- MP Blasted over Lesbian Joke
- Smolensk report delayed
- Funeral body mix up
- End for SMS rip offs
- Online sex shops going strong
- Polkomtel up for grabs
- Poland - Top dog in Vodka
- Kubica speeds to recovery
- Eagles ascending
- Presidential elections at PKO
- Budget bill signed
- Stoch on top
- Club versus country row erupts
- Erotic museum ready to open
- Anger over new gun laws
- Paedo rapist gets eight months
- Lenin to be resurrected
- Elite troops in cash scam
- ABW spied on dead president claim
- Attacking the devil
- Compensation for loo refusal
- Lack of elephants
- Polish coin wins award
- Church helps raise the issue
- Peszko no, Roger yes
- Deficit too high for euro
- Poland eyes up nuclear power
- Pole killed in Afghanistan
- Outrage over EU calendar
- Doctor fined in abortion case
- TVN expose dog sanctuary hell
- Kaczynski cut out
- Bat in the building
- Roly-Polski
- Abortion laws in the limelight
- Belarus relations hit rock bottom
- Fake foods fill the shelves
- Crash not solely fault of pilots
- Dog killers in court
- A fruity wine
- Smolensk Sightseeing
- Hot property
- Komorowski polishes up his English
- Colin & Alicja spilt
- Kowalczyk demolishes rivals
- Wojcik in hot water
- Polish roads cost a fortune
- Weatherman goes down a storm
- Polish cleaner dishes the dirt
- Council destroy private property
- Man confesses to Ewelina murder
- Smolensk crash report released
- Dog led to death
- Snow joke for rail passengers
- Empty shelves as vets strike
- I’ll get me goat
- All aboard the ambulance
- Malysz jumps backwards
- Poland eyes up euro
- Smolensk body mix up causes outrage
- Cancer victim sues phone firms
- New timetable brings chaos to tracks
- Patients tortured in hospital hell
- Mixed feelings over Jaruzelski
- Szczesny’s lucky break
- Lech take Bulls by the horns
- Tusk told to join euro
- Online banking taking off
- African in the Uprising
- Charming conman collared by cops
- Tragic pile-ups shock nation
- PJN policies ‘Unprecedented’
- Death while waiting
- Russian visit stirs mixed reactions
- Give me back my child, sobs mum
- Drunk on the slopes
- Unexpected gift for Santa
- Journos trusted over leaders
- Franek trains Polish strikers
- Who’s our favourite Pole in goal?
- Snow season - A costly business
- Good morning and ‘Heil Hitler’
- Russia criticised in new Wikileaks
- Home explosions cause panic
- Deaths as winter hits Poland
- Christmas tree sellers branch out
- Air defence update
- Lech freeze out Juve
- Russia condemns Katyn
- Controversy over Jaruzelski meeting
- Dealer finds loophole in drug law
- PO “satisfied” with election results
- Breast op leaves Swede in coma
- Poland fails to act on anti-flood initiative
- Smoking ban well-received
- Booze for votes
- Holy unveiling
- Skra floor world champs
- Tests and testiness in Polish FA
- Government fails on bureaucracy promises
- PKP to receive cash injection
- WWII couple reunite after 66 years
- Prince of Wales move to Poland?
- Church provides online alternative
- New drink-skiing proposals
- Angel girls move into politics
- Gay MP claims police brutality
- Law surrounded by cloud of smoke
- Mobster offers evidence for dead cop
- PO on course for political walkover
- Poland coast to Ivory win
- FDI bright for Poland
- EU stalling to hit Poland hard
- New laws for sick cops
- Turkish killer detained
- Celebrations marred by protests
- Poland tops Big Brother list
- Codename: Brzeczyszczykiewicz
- Kulczyk buys ENEA
- More MFF funding for Poland
- Fabianski is fab, Boruc blunders
- A game of two halves
- Bus driver busted
- Outrage over anti-abortion display
- Smolensk data destroyed by Russians?
- Hospital burnt to the ground
- Post Offices to be slashed
- Last minute Lech shock City
- Techno-gran hooks up with family
- Drunken cop school under fire
- Designer drug firms back in business
- Deadly holiday weekend
- Kaczynski sacks opponents
- Hedgehog OP a success
- Kiss my arse - I'm an MP!
- PiS politician murdered in Lodz
- Pope unpopular in polls
- Dangerous ride
- Former minister found murdered
- Designer drugs fan to lobby cause
- Smoking ban sparks confusion
- Lost girl risks losing feet
- Head on collision kills eighteen
- Third time unlucky
- Hard times for public unis
- Platini hovers over stadium
- Two two-twos for Smuda
- Hollywood star causes chaos
- No jail space for criminals
- Pro-cannabis marches get go ahead
- Corruption end by 2012
- Wounded soldiers in Chicago
- Privatisation provides boost
- Budget proposals come under fire
- Poland mourns after coach tragedy
- End of the road for Orbis
- Bones found at Smolensk
- Poland ranks high
- Irving Auschwitz tour banned
- Gas debate continues
- Headache over Chechen separatist
- CIA torture plot thickens
- Five fined over abortions
- Irving tour sparks anger
- Fury over turban privacy
- CIA used Poland for torture camp
- Armed for inspection
- Escapee found in filth
- Poland and Russia close in on gas deal
- Opting for annulment
- Protester in flag-burning outrage
- Nazi remains uncovered
- Quo Vadis Poland?
- Economy kicks into high gear
- Politicians to play charity soccer
- Polish banks fined
- Hooligans run riot
- Lech squeeze through
- EURO 2012 preparations slammed
- Poland receives EU blow
- New drug bill put forward
- Chernobyl tours take off
- Cross ‘Defenders’ terrorised
- Poland pushes for debt calculation change
- Poland defeat the might of Brazil
- New plaque outrages cross defenders
- Lower Silesia receives more funds
- It takes Eto’o to tango
- Ex PM & President face torture charges
- No roads for 2012
- Seething mobs defend cross
- Drunken doc touched up patients
- Barcelona bonanza
- Out of Europe
- Abused men too scared to tell
- Smuggled dogs on the up
- Poland mulls over raising tax
- Poland’s European flops
- Poland top of FDI
- Women to retire at 60
- Poland agrees nuclear future
- Lifetime ban for drunk drivers
- Castration law comes into force
- Spain show no mercy-a
- Battling the border cheats
- Yes to euro
- Goal drought in downpour
- Flood victims promised aid
- EURO 2012 preparations approved
- GDP predicted to rise
- Controversial highway plans
- EC issues finance warnings
- Poland to go nuclear on coast
- Poland hid Nidal in 1980s
- Poland win out of the blue
- Voting age to be lowered
- Poland and Belarus clash over minority
- Al-Qaeda planned attack on Poland
- Top Ref Charged
- Crucifix classroom row breaks out
- Poland to receive unarmed missiles
- Poland amongst most corrupt nations
- US to renew missile talks
- Politkovskaya murderer hid in Poland
- Booze & women – Polish football exposed
- Poland 2 Greece 0
- Poland Flop in South Africa
- Regional News - Wielkopolskie
- Hunt launched for missing spy
- Rostowski rubbishes EU recession claim
- Poland move up rankings
- Poles suspected in Pakistan kidnap
- Domestic demand to boost economy
- GDP predicted to rise
- Business in brief
C.W. just read Students sponsored for sex and said
"There seems to me to be a problem with Professor Kurzepa's demonizing comments about prostitutes. Prostitutes are often viewed ..."
Read the story and add your comment
Latest headlines
Most read stories this month