Kategoria: News & Briefing
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Polish industry gasps for breath again. Data this time strongly disappointing
The Polish manufacturing PMI fell in August 2026 to 48.3 points from 49 points in July, S&P Global reported. Analysts had expected it to be 49.6 points. According…
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Gas in Europe near €70 as heating season approaches and storage levels stay low
Gas prices in Europe are rising strongly and approaching €70 per MWh, after a new phase of attacks between the US and Iran, the first in a month.…
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Oil price spikes. Americans attacked launchers
Brent crude oil prices have broken through the $90 per barrel level. The trigger for this price spike was US strikes on targets on Iran’s Larak Island and…
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North Korea rejects US demands on nuclear weapons
On Monday, a spokesman for North Korea’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement emphasising that US policy toward Pyongyang remains consistently hostile. North Korean authorities accuse Washington of violating…
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Slovakia completes nuclear project started under Czechoslovakia. Poland scrapped its own
Slovakia has just started up a reactor whose construction began before the dissolution of Czechoslovakia, at a time when Poland was building its Żarnowiec plant. Why has one…
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How did KGHM rise from the depths of Lower Silesia to become a global copper powerhouse?
On 23 March 1957, in the Lower Silesia region near Sieroszowice, a team of geologists led by Dr Jan Wyżykowski struck a copper ore deposit with a metal…
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The Chinese airborne wind power plant
This is not an exaggeration, nor a figurative analogy, or an allusion to the world’s tallest wind turbines. It is reality, as reported by the Chinese portal Global…
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The end of Norway’s petro-power. Oil and gas production could drop to nearly zero by 2050
The latest report from the Norwegian Petroleum Directorate, published on August 20, 2026, delivers shocking forecasts for the future of one of Europe’s largest energy suppliers. Without the…
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Conventional power is losing reliability. This summer reveals the brutal truth
In 2026, European power systems faced an unprecedented test, the results of which surprised even the most cautious analysts. Extreme heatwaves and droughts that hit the continent exposed…
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Swedish mining as a guarantor of national security
In late July of this year, the Swedish government recognized the extraction of critical metals and rare earth elements as a matter of national security. It stated that…
