Poland's economy is expected to grow by 2.5-3.0 % in 2010, World Bank senior economist Kaspar Richter told a press conference on Thursday.

During the three days of sessions (14th-16th April 2010), the city of Katowice will became a place for exchanging views and experiences as well as of debate for nearly 400 speakers, great personages of politics, business, science and economics.

A draft proposal for Intelligent Power Supply Networks will be complete by June 2009 as a financial instrument designed to implement state-of-the-art network solutions upgrading energy efficiency at the national scale. Implementation of the draft proposal was officially announced on 26 February 2009, during Energy, Efficiency, Environment Forum held at the National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management in Warsaw. Professor Andrzej Kraszewski, Polish Minister of the Environment, participated in the meeting.

Cushman & Wakefield’s latest report on the real estate market Marketbeat – Spring 2010 presents an analysis of the office, retail, industrial, hospitality and residential markets as well as the investment market in Poland in 2009. The report also provides forecasts for the future development of the real estate sector.

Infrastructure, which a vast proportion of society does not realise, is an area of the economy in a considerable state of inertia. We need to cope with the results of an error committed in planning an investment project for forty to fifty years, or longer – Zbigniew Szafrański, President of PKP Polskie Linie Kolejowe SA tells Polish Market’s Jerzy Bojanowicz.

A World Centre for Partial Deafness Treatment is to bel set up in Kajetany near Warsaw. Its first part is to be ready by mid 2011.

Poland is a country with great academic potential, yet the rate of translating scientific projects into business enterprises is among the lowest in the world. Poland is now on a quest to build a knowledge-based economy, as outlined in national and regional economic development strategies. Bringing research and business together is crucial.

Iannis Xenakis’ ‘Oresteia’ directed by Michał Zadara will premiere on March 14 in the theatre Wielki-Opera Narodowa in Warsaw. This production is Zadara’s known for his original classical texts’ interpretations debut in opera directing.

‘Beats of Freedom’ a documentary on the beginning of rock music in Poland will premiere on March 12. The film was directed by Wojciech Słota and Leszek Gnoiński. Chris Salewicz, British journalist with Polish roots fascinated with broadly understood pop-culture, is the narrator in the movie. It was awarded at the Polish Film Festival in Chicago in November 2009.

Wizz Air has announced plans to further expand its operations from Poland with the launch of two new routes - from Warsaw to Madrid and from Gdansk to Barcelona.

Central Europe continues to play a significant role on the industrial real estate map, and despite the rebalancing of the global economy, the market saw a number of major transactions; last year, around 1.5 million square metres of modern industrial space was let in the Central European region.

The board of the Lech Wałęsa Airport in Gdansk have commissioned a consortium of companies Budimex SA (consortium leader) and Doraco Sp. z o.o. to build a new passenger terminal for the city.

Talk all you will in Poland and abroad about the need to reform pension systems, push back retirement age and encourage private voluntary pension savings and the message invariably misses the mark.