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Polish-Indian Trade Ties Boosted By Orlen and ArcelorMittal

Adam Starzyński November 19, 2023

Poland - Orlen SA, a Polish oil refiner and petrol conglomerate, has signed a multi-year strategic deal to supply natural gas to India's ArcelorMittal, the world's second-largest steel producer. It is not the first time the two titans have collaborated over energy…

Society

Orlen: Poland’s Fortune 500 Asset

The Editorial Board November 13, 2023

Poland - The economic virtues of stability and prosperity are often pitched against one another by the vicissitudes of emerging economies. Since the collapse of communism, successive East European governments have made hard decisions about giving a free rein to the wealth…

Society

The emergence of Chaebols in Central Eastern Europe

Adam Starzyński August 31, 2023

Poland - Ever since the financial crisis of 2007-2008, world leaders have started to look more favourably at Industrial Policy (IP), juxtaposing it with economies that are entirely dependent on expansion in the service sector and financial speculation. IP instead focuses on…

News

Russia shuts off the oil tap to Poland

The Editorial Board March 3, 2023

Poland – The Polish oil group PKN Orlen announced on Saturday, 25 February, that oil deliveries from Russia via the Druzhba pipeline had come to a stop. In recent times, the Druzhba pipeline had been carrying some 10% of Polish oil…

News

Poland’s sports stars

The Editorial Board December 27, 2022

Poland - On December 19th, the largest company of Central Eastern Europe and one of the world’s 150 largest companies, the Polish oil refining and petrol retailing giant PKN Orlen, organized a Christmas meeting for all the sportsmen and children engaged in…

News

PKN Orlen summarises the sport year of 2022

The Editorial Board December 23, 2022

Poland - On December 19th, the Polish oil refining and petrol retailing giant PKN Orlen, organized a Christmas get-together for the Polish athletes and sports stars that it sponsors. Nearly 400 representatives of the world of sports were present for the event…

News

PKN Orlen and MOL oil companies expanding in each other’s base countries

The Editorial Board December 5, 2022

Hungary/Poland – With the beginning of December, the cooperation between Poland’s oil giant PKN Orlen and Hungary’s MOL – the other big player in Central Europe’s oil sector – reached a new level, consolidating the first’s growing regional ambitions and the second’s…

Politics

Can this new scandal really weaken PiS in Poland?

Olivier Bault March 29, 2021

Poland - Since February 26, the newspaper Gazeta Wyborcza has been making numerous revelations about the CEO of the Polish oil company PKN Orlen. Orlen, a former state company, remains 27% state-owned, and the government of Mateusz Morawiecki therefore had a decisive…