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Rożyński, Paweł
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2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Markets put EU under pressure
The US rating agency Moody's lowered Italy's credit rating from A3 to Baa2 on Friday, meaning the country is now just two notches above junk status. For the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita it is clear that the measures adopted by the EU summit two weeks ago have failed to take effect and that the Union cannot go on as it has: "There will be no radical reforms [of the EU] because huge differences exist between individual states, for example between France and Germany and Southern Europe. Germany will never agree to the debts of individual countries being shared by all, because that would increase its own liabilities. Nor does Germany want the ECB to become a money press for the euro. ... But now more is needed than bailout packages, stimulus measures or banks that are directed by the EU: we need structural changes and reforms of our economy, which is no match for the Asian competition. Without new taxation systems, without a flexible job market and without a rise in worker productivity, nothing is going to change."
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Poland's low unemployment rate
The jobless rate in Poland has dropped to 11.4 percent. Only a few years ago it was the highest in the EU, at 20 percent. Paweł Rożyński says this has nothing to do with government policy. "Successive administrations failed to adequately tackle joblessness. But our entry into the EU gave our economy a push, and created hundreds of thousands of jobs. More than a million Poles left the country seeking work abroad. But it's also not good for the country to have a jobless rate that is too low. The quality of services drops, too. Companies have to raise wages faster than warranted by the efficiency of work. That's how they lose to foreign competition. Now is the time to think about the next move. Perhaps the job market should be opened to Ukrainians, or Chinese?"
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