The informal economy is believed to amount to hundreds of billions of zloty per year, with estimates of its size ranging from 9% to 30% of GDP.

The informal economy is believed to amount to hundreds of billions of zloty per year, with estimates of its size ranging from 9% to 30% of GDP.
Małgorzata Tomczak
The authorities have taken tough action in response, including mass arrests and deportations.
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The Polish Filmmakers Association (SFP) has asked prosecutors to investigate the case.
Donald Tusk indicated that Poland wants an embargo on nuclear fuel and the transfer of frozen Russian assets to Ukraine.
Daniel Obajtek oversaw a rapid expansion of Orlen but was accused of using the firm to help the former PiS government.
Mateusz Morawiecki met with Viktor Orbán in Brussels.
However, Andrzej Duda also signed the budget, meaning it will go into force in the meantime.
The trio will allow troops and equipment to be moved more easily through their territories to NATO’s eastern flank.
But Warsaw also pledged to to “end the cold war” waged by the former government against the EU and Germany.
The idea of standing jointly had been floated, but announcements by each group on Tuesday appear to have ended that possibility.
The former PiS government had suggested withdrawing Poland from the Istanbul Convention.
Almost 100,000 visas have been issued under the “Poland. Business Harbour” programme, with almost 95% going to Belarusians.
The court official came to the opposite conclusion of two others from the same court who last week rejected moves to put TVP and Polskie Radio into liquidation.
Kaczyński also accused Tusk of wanting to turn Poles into “farmhands for Germany”.