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Pietryga, Tomasz
4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Poland sells damaged property
Poland has begun to privatise property expropriated by the state under communism. Tomasz Pietryga complains in the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita that the state allowed the real estate to deteriorate deplorably: "Yesterday I read the report by the Supreme Chamber of Control [NIK] on the state of the properties expropriated by the state in accordance with the PKWN [Polish Committee of National Liberation, the Stalinist interim leadership committee] decree on agricultural reform. This report and the photos it contains make staggering reading. The state of most farmyards, manors and other buildings administered by the communities and the state's Agricultural Property Agency [ANR] is catastrophic. Part of the real estate is irreparably damaged and no longer habitable. The NIK points to gross neglect on the part of the ANR and the communities which did nothing to preserve the destroyed or run-down buildings for years on end."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Economy, » Poland
Polish justice protects communist judges
A disciplinary court in Warsaw on Tuesday refused to revoke the immunity of a judge who sentenced a dissident to prison in communist times. This shows just how little progress has been made on dealing with the past, the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita admonishes: "If anyone needed proof that the judicial milieu continues to be dominated by the communist past, they got it yesterday … . As far as the subjects that pertain to our communist past are concerned, immunity has become the standard protective shield - one which is completely impenetrable for all arguments. … The justifications for rejecting the applications [to revoke immunity] are mostly bizarre, as was the case yesterday. The disciplinary court reached the conclusion that the judge who condemned the dissident to four years in prison for distributing flyers couldn't have been aware that his sentence was an expression of communist repression."
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More from the press review on the subject » Remembrance culture, » Poland
Applying industrial law against entrepreneurs
A Polish entrepreneur has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for failing to pay his employees their salaries. The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita points out that his case is not unique in the crisis: "'To stubbornly refuse to pay employees is a crime that can exact harsh punishment'. The court in Zgorzelec has thus set a precedent and deprived the businessman of his freedom for 18 months. There are other instruments in industrial law that can be used to induce unstable companies to pay their employees' salaries, however they are seldom applied consistently. And this of course tempts people to break the law. According to the most recent report of the PIP [the office for labour protection], the number of employees who have not been paid in the past nine months has almost doubled to around 60,000."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Corporations, » Poland
New press law is badly thought-out
The conservative daily Rzeczpospolita praises the Polish government's plans to include Internet publications in its new press law but notes that the regulations is poorly crafted: "There is no doubt that certain information portals on the web differ from traditional dailies only in their format. Therefore there is no reason why they should not be subject to the same publishing obligations as ordinary publishers. Unfortunately the authors of the new regulations … have forgotten to define what a publication is. As a result, if the regulations come into effect in their current form the owners of hobby websites will also be subject to the regulations for publishers. … Unfortunately this is no joke. The ministerial officials should have another good look at the whole thing before they take on the regulation of the Internet."
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More from the press review on the subject » Media policy, » Poland
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