August 11 marked 1,000 days of governing of Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk from PO Civic Platform, which seems a good time to juxtapose the promises made at the beginning of the term with their actual realization.

As cereal prices increase triggered by floods in Europe and Canada spurred hopes for a rebound on the fertilizers market, Poland’s chemical companies have seen decent gains on the Warsaw Stock Exchange since the beginning of July, the daily Puls Biznesu writes.

Greenpeace activists from Poland, Austria and Hungary, Wednesday morning, spread a huge banner saying: I love Puszcza [Primeval Forest] on the façade of the Environment Ministry building in Warsaw.

Russian President Dmitri Medvedev honored Andrzej Wajda, the Oscar-winning Polish film maker with the Order of Friendship for his cinematic contributions to Russian-Polish relations.

Mobile operator Polkomtel is launching a EUR 1 bln bond program, which will be used to replace expiring credit line and could finance potential acquisitions, CEO Jaroslaw Bauc told reporters.

Deputy PM and economy minister Waldemar Pawlak Wednesday suggested the passage of a general safety law to regulate aid to disaster victims.

State railway operator PKP Intercity recorded an over 100 million zlotys loss in H1 versus 77 million zlotys loss in 2009, the daily Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reports, based on official 2009 figures and company officials' comments.

Poland's Labor Minister plans to suspend the transfer of pension premiums to derivate pension funds OFE in 2011 and instead all premiums would go to social insurance board ZUS, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna writes.

Poland's governing party Civic Platform (PO) saw its voter support increase by 1 pp to 44% in early August, while support for the major opposition party PiS slid by further 2 pps to 27%, a poll by PBS DGA researcher for the daily Gazeta Wyborcza showed.

ZUE, the company specializing in building road and railroad infrastructure, plans a mid-sized issue and wants to debut on the WSE at the turn of Q3 and Q4, CEO Wieslaw Nowak told PAP Polish News Agency.

Lotos does not intend to sell its railway and asphalt units Lotos Koleje and Lotos Asfalt, Lotos CEO Paweł Olechnowicz says of the new strategy already adopted by the management and awaiting supervisory approval, the daily Puls Biznesu says.

Banks PKO BP, Getin Noble Bank and DnB Nord are the only banks on the Polish market which haven't adjusted their mortgage loan offer to the requirements of the so-called Recommendation T, which enters into force on August 23, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna daily reports.

Listed insurer PZU will increase the salary of CEO Andrzej Klesyk to PLN 135k monthly, the daily Parkiet found out.

Poland saw foreign investors spend EUR 5.1 bln for new enterprises in Poland in H1, a large portion of which is constituted by repeated investments by companies already present in Poland, data from special economic zones (SSE) show.

Poland recorded a current account deficit of 1.004 billion euros in June, higher than 889 million euros deficit in May and above the expected figure of 704 million euros deficit, according to central bank figures released Wednesday.

Poland's car production increased by 1.5% y/y, but dropped 13.5% m/m to 79,881, market monitoring firm Samar said in a report.

BNP Paribas may withdraw from the race for 70% stake in AIB's Polish unit BZ WBK, the daily Parkiet writes citing insider information.