Poland - Factors to Watch March 3

WARSAW, March 3 - The following are significant news stories, press reports and events on Monday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 1 hour):

EU SUMMIT

Participants at a summit of European leaders on Ukraine declared they are ready to ramp up defence spending, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Sunday.

DATA

On Monday at 0800 S&P Global Market Intelligence will publish the PMI index for Poland. Analysts surveyed by Reuters estimate that it rose in February to 49 points from 48.8 points in January.

DEBT

On Monday at 1400 the Ministry of Finance will publish the debt supply for Wednesday's switch tender.

CYBERATTACK

Polish cybersecurity services have detected unauthorized access to the Polish Space Agency's (POLSA) IT infrastructure, Minister for Digitalisation Krzysztof Gawkowski said on Sunday.

BANKS

The head of the Polish Bank Association, Tadeusz Bialek, said that loans would be cheaper if banks did not have to pay a bank tax for granting them and could count on public sector guarantees for selected types of loans, Puls Biznesu daily reported.

****Reuters has not verified stories reported by Polish media and does not vouch for their accuracy.****

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