Nationalization in Poland

[1] Unlike in most other Eastern Bloc countries, only about a third of Polish agriculture became nationalized (generally in the form of large state farms, the PGRs), and the rest remained in the private sector.

[10][11][12] PKN Orlen has announced its intention to take over state-owned PGNiG, and on 10 May 2021, it submitted a takeover application to the Office of Competition and Consumer Protection.

[16] In late 2022, Jarosław Kaczyński said that the Polish Pis government might buy PKP Energetyka and Żabka convenience store from CVC Capital Partners.

thus closing the purchase transaction of PKP Energetyka S.A.[20] Following the fall of communism in Poland in 1989, some of the formerly nationalized property has been subject to reprivatisation and restored to previous owners, their heirs or other claimants.

[21] In some cases this process have been proven to be highly contentious and controversial, opening the doors to fraud and corruption which exploited the loopholes in the imperfect laws regarding reprivatisation.

[22][23] Many of the controversies were focused on Warsaw, where the whole land was nationalised with the purpose of planned reconstruction of the city nearly completely destroyed during World War II.