Poland may refuse to sign the EU’s new treaty on tighter fiscal rules if Warsaw is not given participant status at eurozone summits, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday.

Hundreds of demonstrators protested in front of European Union offices in Warsaw Tuesday over an international copyright treaty that critics say will lead to internet censorship, but the Polish government insisted it would sign the accord.

Attacks by online activists who paralyzed a string of government websites have exposed serious flaws in official security systems used in Poland, experts have warned.

Polish director Agnieszka Holland’s new film, In Darkness, was Tuesday officially shortlisted as one of five contenders for an Oscar in the best foreign-language film category.

The Polish economy is set to grow 2.3% this year, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development said in a new forecast.

President Bronislaw Komorowski has signed a bill introducing a lump-sum valorization of pensions and disability benefits this year, and immediately sent the bill to the Constitutional Tribunal to be checked

The opposition Law and Justice (PiS) party intends to propose a large number of amendments to the 2012 budget bill during its second reading in the lower house of parliament Wednesday.

Exports by Polish companies to Russia rose 23.8% y/y to 5.7 billion euros in the first 11 months of 2011, and full-year exports are likely to set a new record, Dziennik Gazeta Prawna reported.

Poland's Pengab banking sentiment indicator edged up 0.1 points m/m to 24.0 points in January, according to the Union of Polish Banks (ZBP) and market researcher TNS Pentor.

State bank BGK has announced an IT tender for the implementation and maintenance of its central banking system.

Listed bookmaker Fortuna Entertainment Group says it has been given permission from the Finance Ministry to offer online betting services.

Poland's automotive sector likely set a record last year, with exports estimated to have climbed to 19 billion euros, the Rzeczpospolita daily has reported.

Poland’s portfolio of mortgage loans to households shrank by PLN 2.37 billion in December to PLN 329.29 billion, the National Bank of Poland said in a report.

Poland’s financial regulator (KNF) has urged private pension funds which may face difficulties in covering shortfalls in fund performance to refrain from dividend payouts and to earmark earnings for increasing their equity.

Companies in Poland’s financial sector increased spending on advertising by 23% y/y to PLN 1.84 billion in 2011, but this rate of growth will likely slow this year, the Parkiet daily reported.

A poster depicting Karl Marx with a beard of feathers and 200 other works by prominent German poster designer Gunter Rambow are on display at the Wilanów Poster Museum in Warsaw until Feb. 5.