Poland’s Economic Renaissance: The Importance of Open Markets, Location, and Institutions
Quite an informative piece in Bloomberg today on Poland’s economic renaissance, aided in large part the single market’s free movement of goods, capital, services and people between member states. The “EU’s new economic pillar” as the article puts it.
The piece also underscores the country’s strategic importance vis-vis Russia and obliquely the recent Russian drone movement over Polish territory.
Very solid statistics on Poland’s bond market performance and currency (inter alia): https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-09-15/poland-s-economy-defies-putin-s-threats-and-keeps-growing?srnd=homepage-europe
Linked to the article’s reasoning is the improvement in Poland overall political risk profile – according to the ICRG – beginning in January of 2023. Some deterioration (added risk) has occurred as a result of Russia’s actions.
In a related fashion, for the importance of institutions to the relationship between exports and real exchange movements, have a look at this informative piece by the European Central Bank using our ICRG risk metrics: (https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpwps/ecbwp920.pdf)
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