Ukraine | Poland

A look at how Rzeszów in south-eastern Poland transformed into a hub of assistance to Ukraine - sending humanitarian aid, relocating businesses or its Rzeszów-Jasionka airport doubling as a military facility. 

The European Union’s executive has proposed to extend free trade with Ukraine until June next year.

The European Union is working on extension of autonomous trade measures for Ukraine for another year, and is to present the details soon, after Poland has called on the bloc to safeguard its internal market. 

Since early November, Polish truckers have been blocking the border crossings with Ukraine, causing queues with waiting time counted in thousands of hours. Their key demand was that the European Union reinstate permits for Ukrainian transport companies entering the bloc. After three months of stalemate - it seems that the long-awaited agreement has been finally reached, as mid-week the protest was suspended.

In 2024 Ukraine provides even more business opportunities due to the need for reconstruction and American and Canadian companies are ready to step in.  

A conference devoted to the future reconstruction of Ukraine has recently taken place in Warsaw. According to many analysts, the recovery of Ukraine will be the largest economic project currently in Europe that will cost hundreds of billions of dollars and face plenty of challenges. Ukraine wants this to be a speedy process while foreign investors are saying: show me the money.

A local mayor in Poland has disbanded a protest by truckers who have been blocking a border crossing with Ukraine in response to what they say is unfair competition from their Ukrainian counterparts.

Jadwiga Emilewicz, the Polish government's representative for Polish-Ukrainian relations, has urged the United States to continue supporting war-torn Ukraine during talks in Washington.

Polish truck drivers have been blocking border crossings with Ukraine in protest against what they say has been Ukrainian hauliers' free rein in Poland since restrictions were loosened in the wake of Russia’s invasion.

Poland and Ukraine will work together on ways to rebuild the war-torn country through both governmental and regional initiatives, a Polish official said on Tuesday.   

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has announced that EU countries have pledged more than EUR 400 million in new funds to support the reconstruction of Ukraine, with Poland expected to contribute EUR 25 million.

Polish companies are willing to invest in Ukraine, even before the end of the war, under Polish government's economic missions to that country. 

A new feature-length documentary charting the role of Ukraine’s tech industry in the fight against Russian aggression premiered in the Polish capital Warsaw at the weekend.

The European Union has adopted its ninth package of sanctions against Russia, stepping up pressure on the Kremlin to end its war of aggression in Ukraine.

The Polish prime minister has said that Poland and its businesses want to help rebuild Ukraine after the war “under a new Marshall Plan.”

The European Union's executive on Wednesday unveiled a range of proposals for member states to tackle an energy crisis caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Poland has an important role to play in supporting Ukraine’s economy as it struggles to deal with the devastation inflicted by invading Russian forces, a European business executive has said.

Ukraine on Tuesday officially joined the International Energy Agency as an association country at a ceremony in the Polish capital Warsaw.

Following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, almost 1,000 global enterprises have pulled out of Russia.

Polish industry remains in good shape, but economists predict that a slowdown as a result of the war in Ukraine will happen, the question is how rapid will it be?