A court Tuesday dismissed a case brought by ex-president Lech Walesa against a one-time union activist who claimed the former Solidarity leader was an agent for Poland's communist-era security services in the 1970s.

Minister Donald Tusk told reporters Tuesday he expected the Polish economy to grow at least 3% this year but said that amid uncertainties on global markets predictions of full-year growth of 3.5% were overoptimistic.

Public disapproval of Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s government has grown, with 56% of voters believing it is doing a poor job, up from 45 percent of voters in July, according to a monthly survey by the TNS OBOP polling company.

Unemployment in Poland in July fell to 9.4% from 9.6% in June, according to Eurostat, the European Union's statistics office.

The government is planning to approve a draft budget for 2011 at a special meeting of the Cabinet on Friday, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has told reporters.

The government is likely to unveil plans within two weeks for a "moderate" tax on the banking sector, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters Tuesday.

Polish banks further eased deposit rates and cut the cost of consumer and real-estate loans for households on new sales in July, data from the National Bank of Poland (NBP) shows.

Poland will likely fulfill the Maastricht criterion regarding inflation in the first half of 2011, deputy Finance Minister Ludwik Kotecki said Tuesday.

President Bronislaw Komorowski met with Polish ambassadors Tuesday to discuss foreign policy priorities.

Listed fuel giant PKN Orlen recorded an attributable net loss of zl.5.22 million in the second quarter, the company said in a financial statement for the first six months of this year.

Listed gas company PGNiG posted an attributable net profit of zl.4.19 million in Q2, compared to a zl.95 million loss in the same quarter of last year, the PAP news agency reported, citing the company’s financial statement.

Poland financed 77% of its borrowing needs for this year by the end of August, according to the head of the Finance Ministry’s public debt department.

Poland's GDP growth is likely to slow because wages have not risen significantly, which will lead to a slowdown in consumption, according to Monetary Policy Council member Andrzej Kazmierczak.

Listed IT company Sygnity expects to post a net loss in Q3 but should break even in the second half of the year, CEO Norbert Biedrzycki told reporters.

Consumer sentiment in Poland deteriorated in August, with the WOK consumer optimism index falling 4.2 points from July to 92.6 points, market research company Ipsos said in a report.

Poland hosted 437,392 tourists who stayed in the country for at least one night in June, up from 397,028 in June last year, according to statistics office GUS.

KBC Securities increased its target price for listed copper giant KGHM by 3.5% to zl.119 in a report dated Aug. 24.

Listed media group TVN had its target price reduced to zl.16.10 from zl.17 with a recommendation maintained at “hold” by KBC Securities analysts in a report dated Aug. 24.

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