Poland's consumer inflation likely hit this year’s bottom with the July reading of 2.0%, and will rebound to over 2.5% at end-year, deputy Finance Minister Ludwik Kotecki told PAP Polish News Agency.

Tomasz Nalecz, Polish historian, leftist politician, former vice-Speaker of the Sejm and a former member of the Socjaldemokracja Polska party (Polish Social-Democracy) accepted the post of presidential advisor from President Bronislaw Komorowski.

Twenty five motorcyclists, including officers from the government protection bureau (BOR) left Warsaw yesterday on a memorial ride to Smolensk, western Russia, to pay tribute to the April 10 presidential plane crash victims.

Poland's zloty is expected to appreciate towards PLN 3.86 against the euro at year-end, with average expectations for 2011 around EUR/PLN 3.69, analysts surveyed by the daily Parkiet forecasts.

Poland's Internal Affairs Ministry launched a tender for designing, building and implementing the first stage of a digital radio communications system worth some 0.5 billion zlotys, the ministry's IT project centre announced.

Textile chains are expected to undergo expansion as 200 new stores selling clothes and shoes are planned to be opened in 2010, a report of Euromonitor International shows.

Junior coalition partner, agrarian PSL, will discuss ways of regaining public support and preparing for the autumn local government elections on Saturday.

Poland's industrial output is expected to neighbor 11% y/y in July and could be close to 12% in the whole Q3, experts from analysis and forecast department at the Economy Ministry forecast.

Poland's top fuel group PKN Orlen has hired the international investment bank Nomura to advise the oil group on a possible sale of its Lithuanian unit, Orlen Lietuva, and collect initial offers from potential buyers.

Governing party Civic Platform (PO) wants to relaunch parliamentary procedure on draft bills, which were vetoed by President Lech Kaczynski, as well as withdraw Kaczynski's several motions to the Constitutional Court, the daily Rzeczpospolita found out.

Poland's rate council is expected to increase interest rates in September, Nordea analysts said in a report.

Polish local governments ended the first half with an aggregate budget surplus of 4.138 billion zlotys versus plans to end the year with an aggregate budget deficit at 29.2 billion zlotys, data published by the Finance Ministry showed Monday.

Poland's fiscal plan for years 2010-13 is described as 'minimalistic' by JP Morgan analysts.

IT companies are looking forward to the back-to-school and back-to-college season in end-August and September, which may bring even 20-25% of annual revenues, the daily Parkiet writes citing company representatives.

Poland may double the number of public-private partnership projects this year reaching some 80-90 vs. last year's 41, head of project director at Investment Support Kacper Kozlowski expects.

Poland received four bids for power group Energa: from listed power group PGE as well as from investment vehicle Kulczyk Holding, France's GdF Suez and Czech Energeticky a Prumyslovy Holding a.s., the Treasury Ministry's spokesperson Maciej Wewior told PAP.