– In my opinion, we should sum up the years 2022 and 2023 as one. Events in 2022 affect what happened in 2023, said Dr. Blazej Podgorski, an economist at Kozminski University in the Wirtualna Polska Newsroom program. He first pointed to inflation, the still felt effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the war in Ukraine. We have a “difficult budget” year ahead of us. – Europe is facing an economic slowdown. I think it will be a little worse. Of course, inflation will not affect us much, and the GDP growth rate will decrease. I doubt there will be a sharp increase in unemployment, he added. He pointed out that the most important challenge is to achieve milestones to unlock the grant and loan portion of the KPO as quickly as possible.