Poland – The surge in energy prices began before the war in Ukraine, and this cannot be stressed enough. A little over a year ago, in early December 2021, Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki justified the “anti-inflation shield” implemented by his government by…
After an increase in the number of births in 2016 and 2017, which the government attributed to the introduction of family allowances for the first time in post-communist Poland, the birth rate began to fall again in 2018. That trend was confirmed…