Ukrainian and European businesses certainly operate in very different conditions today, but their goals and objectives are the same.
At the Forum Ekonomiczne / Economic Forum in Karpacz, I joined Łukasz Grabowski of the Polish Investment and Trade Agency, Beata Czaplińska of the Polish-Lithuanian Chamber of Commerce, Mateusz Kwiatkowski, owner of SECRET GLASS, and Siarhei Panfilau, head of AIST, a foundation supporting Belarusian entrepreneurs in Poland, to discuss the prospects for doing business under current circumstances. The panel was moderated by Lesław Kretowicz of ISBnews.
Drawing on statistics, we tried to build forecasts for business activity. I showed my colleagues some optimistic indicators in their own markets, because inflation alone is not a measure of what is happening to exports and imports. They, in turn, talked about their problems and concerns. It was a substantive discussion with solid arguments and conclusions.
Answering the moderator’s final question, “Will things get better, and when?”, I allowed myself a joke: “If you count the waves of elections awaiting Poland, parliamentary, local, European and presidential, I would say things will most likely get better sometime around 2026.”
Thank you to everyone for the discussion, not only to the speakers, but also to those who carried it on with me in the corridors for another hour and a half.
