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Post by pieter on Dec 28, 2009 10:02:35 GMT -7
Poland Resilient to the Crisis, PM's Chief Adviser SaysRenata Grochal 2008-10-01, ostatnia aktualizacja 2008-10-01 09:32 Conversation with Michał Boni, Prime Minister Donald Tusk's chief economic adviser.Renata Grochal: Grzegorz Napieralski, leader of the opposition post-communist SLD, wants ministers to explain in parliament whether Poland is prepared to address a potential financial crisis like that one the US is currently experiencing. Michał Boni: Poland's economic fundamental are rather stable. The US crisis shouldn't have too pronounced an impact on us - if only because of the fact that Polish banks have never dealt in al the sophisticated instruments used by US financial institutions. The finance minister is in constant touch with his counterparts at the other EU countries, and governments share information - like those of Belgium and the Netherlands on decisions concerning *Fortis Bank. This knowledge lets us prepare ourselves in case something was to happen. Last night everyone trembled at the thought of how the Warsaw bourse would open. And it turned out it wasn't that bad. The Polish economy's resilience to crises is much greater than it used to be in the past. This speaks well of it. It means we'll be waiting with relative calm for the US administration's decisions on a rescue package for the US economy. Has the cabinet ordered any expert analyses on how great the risk of a crisis hitting Poland actually is? Have you consulted National Bank of Poland governor Sławomir Skrzypek? This isn't a crisis that would devour the Polish economy within one day. It won't devour it at all. You certainly have to draw various scenarios. First of all, on how a potential tightening in commercial banks' lending policies would affect the economy. Following many months of negotiations, the cabinet has finally endorsed a new pension system bill. It was supposed to reduce the number of those eligible for early retirement to 130,000, but the actual figure it provides for is 270,000. You won't call this a success, will you? What is important is that the only criterion we applied during the whole debate was the health one. There was no political bargaining. Early retirement will be granted only to those professions where experts say it's really necessary. I believe it's a big achievement for this cabinet. Its predecessors have all failed here. I also hope parliament passes the bill through quickly. The problem is whether President Kaczyński decides to sign it, because he has already suggested he may refuse to. If he doesn't, everyone will lose the right to early retirement from 1 January 2009. We should present Mr President with all the arguments showing that this bill is part of a broader programme of after-50 employees' professional activation, what we've called the 50+ Programme. We're now polishing up bills on job-creation promotion and labour-market institutions, they should be submitted to parliament soon. The finance minister said yesterday that for Poland to introduce the euro in 2011, it would have to amend its constitution by mid-next year. But the PiS is against Poland's joining the eurozone anytime soon. Are you trying to convince them? I think that very soon talks should be initiated on the issue so that besides the exchange of words and ideas going on in the press, some realistic conditions could be defined. Translated by Marcin WawrzyńczakŹródło: Gazeta Wyborcza * www.bnpparibasfortis.pl/index.htm
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Post by pieter on Dec 29, 2009 8:53:14 GMT -7
From the Republic of Poland, ministry of economy (source) Innovative Economy – first competitions underway– We hope that competitions which have just been started will significantly improve innovative potential of Polish enterprises, and thus contribute to the development of the whole economy – said Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak during the press conference concerning start-up of first competitions within the framework of the Operational Programme Innovative Economy (OP IE). The conference took place in the Ministry of Economy on 8 April 2008.Ministerof economy and Deputy Prime Minister Waldemar PawlakThe Deputy Prime Minister reminded that activities under which first competitions would be organised are part of the Programme 4 priority axis “ Investments in innovative undertakings”, monitored by the Ministry of Economy. – The Ministry will directly implement activity 4.5, which concerns investments of major importance for the economy. Over 1 billion euros were allocated to this type of projects – he stressed. The Minister added that other activities under OP IE 4 priority axis, which are linked with the competitions to be organised in the nearest future, will be implemented by the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development. – The PAED will be responsible among others for the activity 4.4, which covers implementation of new investments of a high innovative potential. The budget of this activity exceed 1.4 billion euros – he emphasised. Furthermore, the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development will implement the activity 4.2 concerning stimulation of the research and development activities of enterprises. Minister of Regional Development, Elżbieta Bieńkowska, also referred to activities under the OP IE 4 priority axis. – Both the Ministry of Regional Development and the Ministry of Economy, as well as the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, took every effort to begin the competitions as soon as possible. We are very well aware of the importance of the Innovative Economy programme for the development of Polish enterprises – she added. Minister of Regional Development, Elżbieta BieńkowskaPresident of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Danuta Jabłońska, who attended the conference, informed that first contracts resulting from the competitions will be concluded with entrepreneurs in August and September this year. She also reminded other financing possibilities, such as regional operational programmes. President of the Polish Agency for Enterprise Development, Danuta Jabłońska*** Since 12 May 2008 entrepreneurs will have the possibility to file applications for financing innovative projects carried out by their firms. The budget of the Operational Programme Innovative Economy 2007-2013, within the framework of which first competitions will take place, exceeds 2.6 billion euros. This amount has been broken down into individual years. In case of activities 4.2 and 4.5 applications may be filed on an on-going basis, while in case of activity 4.4 an application round will be organised. Apart from the 4 priority axis, the Ministry of Economy monitors implementation of three other OP IE axes: 3. “ Capital for innovations”, 5. “ Diffusion of innovations” and 6. “ The Polish economy on the international market”. The total budget for all axes falling within the competence of the Minister of Economy amounts to nearly 4.6 billion euros. Funds will be transferred directly to entrepreneurs, as well as to business environment institutions and scientific units providing high quality services to enterprises. All competitions within the framework of the above mentioned axes should begin before the end of July 2008.
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Post by pieter on Dec 29, 2009 9:45:46 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Dec 29, 2009 10:17:56 GMT -7
Ofcourse Poland had a female Prime Minister in 1992 and 1993: Hanna Suchocka Hanna Suchocka (1946) is a Polish political figure. She served as the prime minister of Poland between July 11, 1992 and October 26, 1993 under the presidency of Lech Wałęsa. So far, she is the only woman to hold this post. Suchocka is a specialist in Constitutional Law. She was a member of the Sejm of People's Republic of Poland in the 1980s, and became Prime Minister in 1992. She served as an anomaly in the representation of women, however, as she obtained her position partly due to her leaning to both sides of the political spectrum. After the downfall of the Jan Olszewski cabinet on June 1992, following the exposure of a list of secret communist collaborators of Służba Bezpieczeństwa by Minister of Internal Affairs Antoni Macierewicz, her cabinet was allegedly linked to illegal persecution and disintegration of Polish conservative and independent rightist parties (so called Instruction UOP nr 0015/92). Her left-wing leanings, accompanied by her strong anti-abortion position, made her the perfect candidate to satisfy the interests of a majority coalition in Parliament consisting of three parties including her own Democratic Union, the Christian National Union, and the Liberal Democratic Congress. Member of the Club of Madrid. Hanna Suchocka is a member of the Council of Women World Leaders, an international network of current and former women presidents and prime ministers whose mission is to mobilize the highest-level women leaders globally for collective action on issues of critical importance to women and equitable development. She has been serving as Poland's Ambassador to the Holy See since December 2001 and is also a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in the Vatican (appointed by Pope John Paul II on 19 January 1994). In Polish: Hanna SuchockaHanna Suchocka (ur. 3 kwietnia 1946 w Pleszewie) – polska polityk, radca prawny, nauczyciel akademicki, premier Polski w latach 1992–1993, minister sprawiedliwości w rządzie Jerzego Buzka, ambasador Polski przy Stolicy Apostolskiej oraz Zakonie Maltańskim, poseł na Sejm PRL VIII kadencji i na Sejm X, I, II i III kadencji. Wykształcenie i praca zawodowaUkończyła w 1968 studia na Wydziale Prawa Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu, na tej uczelni uzyskała stopień doktora nauk prawnych. Pracowała jako nauczyciel akademicki, m.in. na KUL, a także w Instytucie Nauk Prawnych PAN. Działalność polityczna w PRLOd 1968 należała do Stronnictwa Demokratycznego, z jego listy została posłanką na Sejm PRL VIII kadencji (była posłem w latach 1980–1985). Wraz z m.in. Dorotą Simonides i Janem Janowskim znalazła się w 1982 w gronie posłów SD głosujących przeciwko delegalizacji "Solidarności". Pod koniec kadencji pozostawała posłanką bezpartyjną. Działalność w III RPW latach 1989–2001 sprawowała mandat posła na Sejm X kadencji z ramienia Komitetu Obywatelskiego, I i II kadencji z listy Unii Demokratycznej i III kadencji z listy Unii Wolności. W 2001 nie ubiegała się o reelekcję. W okresie II kadencji zasiadała w Komisji Konstytucyjnej Zgromadzenia Narodowego. W wyborach prezydenckich w 1990 poparła Tadeusza Mazowieckiego, od 1991 należała do Unii Demokratycznej i – po zjednoczeniu z KLD w 1994 – do Unii Wolności. Wraz z m.in. Tadeuszem Mazowieckim reprezentowała tzw. chadeckie skrzydło tej partii. Premier10 lipca 1992 uzyskała poparcie Sejmu, obejmując urząd Prezesa Rady Ministrów, następnego dnia Sejm powołał jej koalicyjny rząd, który tworzyło siedem partii o charakterze centrowym i prawicowym. Jej gabinet uzyskał również poparcie m.in. posłów NSZZ "Solidarność" i Mniejszości Niemieckiej. Rząd został odwołany (przewagą jednego głosu) 28 maja 1993 w wyniku tzw. niekonstruktywnego wotum nieufności zgłoszonego przez Alojzego Pietrzyka z NSZZ "S". Funkcję premiera technicznego sprawowała do października 1993. Rząd Jerzego BuzkaW 1997 w rządzie Jerzego Buzka z rekomendacji Unii Wolności objęła stanowisko ministra sprawiedliwości i prokuratora generalnego. Jej kandydatura wzbudziła kontrowersje wśród części działaczy współtworzącego AWS Porozumienia Centrum, gdyż w sierpniu 1997 jej rząd został oskarżony przez Zbigniewa Siemiątkowskiego, o tolerowanie rzekomej inwigilacji opozycyjnych partii politycznych. W 1999 była kandydatką rządu na funkcję sekretarza generalnego Rady Europy (nie została poparta przez frakcję socjaldemokratów, w tym posłów SLD). Po rozpadzie koalicji w 2000 podała się do dymisji z funkcji ministra. AmbasadorOd 2001 zajmuje stanowisko ambasadora RP przy Stolicy Apostolskiej. Jest także ambasadorem Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej przy Zakonie Maltańskim. Odznaczenia i wyróżnienia * 18 października 2004 odznaczona Wielkim Krzyżem Orderu Błogosławionego Piusa IX. * W 1992 otrzymała tytuł "Człowiek Roku tygodnika Wprost". * W październiku 1997 została honorowym obywatelem Grodziska Wielkopolskiego.
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Post by pieter on Jan 2, 2010 5:26:33 GMT -7
Tuftabis, Pawian, Zooba, Jaga and other Poles (and thus Polish-Americans),
I wish you a wonderful, pleasent, colorfull, creative, succesful, healthy, cosy, relaxed, cheerful, prosporous and spiritual wealthy 2010 in your wonderful country in Central-Europe, that place of my ancesters which has a special spot in my heart, soul and mind!
That you may have a good year in Warsaw, Poznan, Krakow, Szczecin, Idaho and other places! It is wonderful to see the progress which Poland has made in the past 20 years and the progress Poland has in the present and will have in the Future!
Tuftabis, thanks for the correspondance we had, the patience you had with my long stories, and the important messages, knowledge, information, putting things in perspective, the good Polish ironic humor, your insightful remarks and serious thoughts. A few words can mean a lot to me!
For instance that an important part of the old left (PPS) can bve found in the conservative, Patriotic PiS. And other remarks!
The new year will be bussy for all of us, because due to the new times of crisis and challanges I will have to work hard - and others will have too-! But the Polish Forum will be and stay important for me!
It is important for me to stay in touch with Poland, monitor the situation and keep updated about Poland!
It is also important to visit the country every now and then, to try to get in touch with Poles in the Netherlands and people who have a connection with Poland (Dutch people who speak Polish, are married with a Polish person or have cultural or business ties with Poland).
For instance on the Art academy of Amsterdam there are several intersting Polish students, who will be interesting contemporary artists in the Netherlands and Poland in the near future!
I have contact with a half American half Dutch girl who told me that the most interesting students of the Rietveld academy (the Amsterdam art academy) come from Poland and Africa. I am curious about this!
Pieter
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 3, 2010 9:47:46 GMT -7
Thank you for very nice wishes, Pieter. A good year to all of you!
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 3, 2010 10:00:01 GMT -7
5 of the 20 Polish ministers in the Cabinet Tusk are women The general ratio men to women in Polish politics is around 1 to 5. Besides those mantioned there's Zyta Gilowska who was a finance minister. BTW, imo one of the ever best politicians in EU is a woman, her name is Meglena Kuneva, comes from Bulgaria. Unfortunately due internal political fights in Bulgaria she was not nominated for a commisair again.
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 3, 2010 10:43:14 GMT -7
oops! 5 to 1 of course...
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 3, 2010 11:11:28 GMT -7
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 13, 2010 2:23:33 GMT -7
Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski has unveiled the basics of a public finance consolidation plan, but some question whether the government's heart is in it
In a recent article he wrote for Gazeta Wyborcza, Finance Minister Jacek Rostowski discussed a soon-to-be-unveiled two-year public finance consolidation plan designed to cope with Poland’s growing public debt. According to Deputy Finance Minister Dominik Radziwiłł, the plan will be announced in mid-January.
Elements of the plan, Mr Rostowski noted, include gradually phasing out special pension privileges for certain professional groups, raising the retirement age, reforming open pension funds, speeding up privatization and introducing a new fiscal discipline measure. The first part of the plan will see new members of certain professional groups, such as soldiers or policemen, joining the general pension system rather than special schemes. In time, the rule would apply to all privileged groups.
“This way, Poland will finish its pension reform without infringing on the pension rights earned by those who are currently working,” the finance minister explained.
The government also wants changes to the general pension system. The retirement age will be raised and the second pillar of the system – the open pension funds – will be adjusted to deal with problems such as poor efficiency.
In addition, the public finance plan proposes a new measure called an “expenditure rule.” According to this rule, restrictions will be placed on how much the state can increase its expenditures on certain things which are not provided for in already enacted laws. In Mr Rostowski’s opinion, the rule will be a safety measure in times of prosperity as well as in times of crisis, preventing governments from squandering budget surpluses. In the article, Mr Rostowski professed Civic Platform’s (PO) will to reform, but stressed that the implementation of the plan requires the consent of the opposition and the president. “Until that [happens], Donald Tusk’s government will forward all appeals to speed up the reform process to their proper addressee – President Lech Kaczyński.”
However, not everyone is convinced of the government’s sincerity. “This is all a PR stunt and excuses, they do not want to introduce reforms,” Robert Gwiazdowski, president of the Adam Smith Center, told WBJ. In his opinion, if the government really wanted to reform, it would be able to rally enough support among the opposition to overturn the presidential veto.www.wbj.pl/article-48013-rostowski-outlines-reforms.html?type=lim
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 13, 2010 2:32:39 GMT -7
European debt crisis Posted on 7 Thu, Jan 2010, with tags: europe, euro In spite of relatively positive New Year's projections that estimate Poland's economy growing by approximately two percent in 2010 (one of Europe's highest rates), much of Poland's recovery will depend on successful growth within the euro zone. Currently, prospects remain challenging due to a looming European debt crisis.
By the end of 2009, bank lending across the euro zone decreased significantly, particularly to the private sector.
With the real estate market is still in decline and firms continuing to hold off hiring or making new investments, the EU economic engine seems stalled. In addition, ballooning public deficits in several euro-zone economies, including its newest (and first) Eastern members Slovakia and Slovenia, are simply unsustainable.
Not only do they threaten Europe's long-term recovery prospects, but they also raise the cost of borrowing (for both the public and private sectors) and increase the risk of inflation. This will surely affect Poland, which is dealing with its own widening public deficit as well as euro entry bid.
One major thorn in Europe's recovery is the lack of a common recovery plan. Regarding monetary policy among euro zone members, there is only so much that the European Central Bank can do. Unlike, the US, individual EU and euro zone member states, through independent fiscal and other stimulus policies, have set the recovery agenda and in many cases acted unilaterally out of self-interest rather than with the common market in mind. - (and that is one of the points concerning EU missed in Mr. Krugmans overly optimistic article sent by Jaga in another thread)Case in point is Italian carmaker Fiat considering relocating the production of its best-selling Panda back to Italy, despite Poland's lower labor and production costs, thereby addressing government demands of increasing Italy's domestic car production. Although Poland's recent success at avoiding large-scale recession rested on lower dependence on and exposure to euro zone export and credit markets, its recovery may be more closely tied to the euro zone's public debt balance and its members' short-term ability to get their fiscal houses in order. www.wbj.pl/blog/CEEPolicyWatch/post-171-new-year-brings-heightened-risk-of-european-debt-crisis.htm
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 13, 2010 2:34:45 GMT -7
Survey puts Poland in top place to do business in CEE
12th January 2010
A survey of 1,169 foreign professionals working in Central and Eastern Europe conducted by the University of Reading in the UK, has found that Poland, with the highest score of 204 points, is the best place for business.
Surprisingly, the professionals do not find corruption a real problem in Poland.
"Business here is decentralized. For all the 20 years I have been living here, I faced corruption issues only a couple of times. In running a business on a daily basis I feel completely safe," said Raimondo Eggink, who is a member of several supervisory boards.
According to Piotr Wielgomas the CEO of HR company Bigram, this good result might be due to the fact that expats have little contact with the public sector, and corruption is often generated when private business meets the public sector.
Still, for foreigners the biggest problems remain bureaucracy and the shortage of modern IT solutions.
Experts also point out incompetency as well as bad knowledge of English among bureaucrats.
Source: Puls Biznesu
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Post by tuftabis on Jan 13, 2010 2:46:26 GMT -7
I've been telling my international collegues and co-workers about that for ages! “Eastern Europe” Wrongly labelled
Jan 7th 2010 From The Economist print edition The economic downturn has made it harder to speak sensibly of a region called “eastern Europe”
IT WAS never a very coherent idea and it is becoming a damaging one. “Eastern Europe” is a geographical oddity that includes the Czech Republic (in the middle of the continent) but not Greece or Cyprus (supposedly “western” Europe but in the far south-east). It makes little sense historically either: it includes countries (like Ukraine) that were under the heel of the Soviet empire for decades and those (Albania, say) that only brushed it. Some of those countries had harsh planned economies; others had their own version of “goulash communism” (Hungary) or “self-managed socialism” (Yugoslavia).
Already unreliable in 1989, the label has stretched to meaninglessness as those countries’ fortunes have diverged since the collapse of communism. The nearly 30 states that once, either under their own names or as part of somewhere else, bore the label “communist” now have more differences than similarities. Yet calling them “eastern Europe” suggests not only a common fate under totalitarian rule, but a host of ills that go with it: a troubled history then; bad government and economic misery now.
The economic downturn has shown how misleading this is. Worries about “contagion” from the banking crisis in Latvia raised risk premiums in otherwise solid economies such as Poland and the Czech Republic—a nonsense based on outsiders’ perceptions of other outsiders’ fears. In fact, the continent’s biggest financial upheaval is in Iceland (see article, article), and the biggest forecast budget deficits in the European Union next year will not be in some basket-cases from the ex-communist “east” but in Britain and in Greece. The new government in Athens is grappling with a budget deficit of at least 12.7% of GDP and possibly as much as 14.5%. European Commission officials are discussing that in Greece this week.
None of the ten “eastern” countries that joined the EU is in so bad a mess. They include hotshots and slowcoaches, places that feel thoroughly modern and those where the air still bears a rancid tang from past misrule. Slovenia and the Czech Republic, for example, have overhauled living standards in Portugal, the poorest country in the “western” camp. Neither was badly hit by the economic downturn. Some of the ex-communist countries now have better credit ratings than old EU members and can borrow more cheaply. Together with Slovakia, Slovenia has joined the euro, which Sweden, Denmark and Britain have not. Estonia—at least in outsiders’ eyes—is one of the least corrupt countries in Europe, easily beating founder members of the EU such as Italy.
Three sub-categories do make sense. One is the five autocratic ’stans of Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan). They scarcely count as “Europe”, though a hefty Britain-sized tenth of Kazakhstani territory (some 200,000 square kilometres) lies unambiguously in Europe. Kazakhstan also this year chairs the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a Vienna-based post-cold-war talking shop. But none of the ’stans has become a member of the Council of Europe (another talking shop and human-rights guardian, based in Strasbourg). That shows the problem. The definition of “Europe” is as unreliable as the word “eastern”.
The ’stans vary (Tajikistan is poor, Kazakhstan go-getting). But all have slim prospects of joining the EU in the lifetime of anyone reading this article. That creates a second useful category: potential members of the union. It starts with sure-fire bets such as Croatia, and other small digestible countries in the western Balkans such as Macedonia. It includes big problematic cases such as Turkey and Ukraine and even—in another optimistic couple of decades—four other ex-Soviet republics, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Azerbaijan (the last, maybe, one day, on Turkey’s coat-tails).
The third and trickiest category is the ten countries that joined in the big enlargement of 2004 and in the later expansion of 2007. They are a mixed bunch, ranging from model EU citizens such as Estonia (recently smitten by a property bust, but all set to gain permission this year to join the euro) to Romania and Bulgaria, which have become bywords in Brussels for corruption and organised crime respectively. Eight of them (Romania and Bulgaria are the exceptions) have already joined Europe’s Schengen passportless travel zone. Most (Poland is a big, rankling exception) also have visa-free travel to America. All (unlike EU members Austria, Cyprus, Ireland and Malta) are in NATO.
Some worries remain constant, mild in the countries in or near the EU, more troubling in those in the waiting room and beyond. Exclusion and missed opportunity from the communist years still causes anger, as does near-exclusion from top jobs in international organisations (another consequence of the damaging “eastern Europe” label, some say). Toxic waste from that era, such as over-mighty spooks and miles of secret-police files, create openings for blackmail and other mischief-making, especially where institutions are weak. Lithuania’s powerful security service, the VSD, is in the centre of a political storm, but worries about lawlessness and foreign penetration ripple from the Baltic to the Black Sea.
Four countries—Poland and the three Baltic states—worry a lot about Russian revisionism (or revanchism). Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia are concerned too, but more about energy and economic security than military sabre-rattling. Yet elsewhere, in the former Yugoslavia for example, such fears seem mystifying and even paranoid.
The new and future members also share capital-thirstiness. All need lots of outside money (from the EU’s coffers, from the capital markets and from foreign bank-lending) to modernise their economies to the standards of the rest of the continent.
But the usefulness of the “new member state” category is clearly declining as the years go by. Oxford University still has a “New College” which was a good label in 1379 to distinguish it from existing bits of the university. It seems a bit quaint now. Poles, Czechs, Estonians and others hope that they will drop the “new” label rather sooner, so that they can be judged on their merits rather than on their past.
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2010 16:24:47 GMT -7
Raising the retirement age! Tufta, While listening with a half ear to a late nigh live TV broadcast debate in the Dutch parlaiment over the Dutch" Iraq crisis" the present government Balkenende is in after the report Davids of the Iraq inquiry (over the Dutch involvement in the American-British invasion and war) was released, I am reading your articles. www.nrc.nl/international/article2458168.ece/After_Iraq_study,_crisis_brewing_for_Dutch_government In the Netherlands the present govenment Balkenende IV is raising the retirement age from 65 to 67, because due to population ageing the social security of the future, future pensions and facilities will be not guaranteed with a decreasing workforce. The expectation is that the the retirement age will be raised even more to 70 in the near future to make compensate the effects of the population ageing. Pieter
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Post by pieter on Jan 13, 2010 16:27:55 GMT -7
The raising of the retirement age which is supported by the three coalition parties and the two liberal opposition parties is harshly critisized by both the left SP and Wilders PVV and the largest Union.
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