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Wielowieyska, Dominika
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4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Polands acting president takes right course of action
Politicians belonging to the national conservative Law and Justice Party [PiS] of Lech Kaczyński, the Polish president who died in a plane crash on the weekend, have criticised acting president Bronislaw Komorowski of the liberal-conservative Civic Platform party for already having nominated successors to the chiefs of security and the chancellery of the presidency, who also died in the crash. The daily Gazeta Wyborcza has no sympathy with such complaints: "Jacek Michałowski, who has been nominated to lead the chancellery of the president, is an unpolitical official who works a lot, not a politician who was lucky enough to wangle a good post. The nomination of Stanisław Koziej to chief of the BBN [National Security Bureau] is a bow to the opposition, because Koziej was deputy defence minister in the PiS government. The two posts have to be filled because the state must continue to function. ... And both can be relieved from office at any time."
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Eliminate privileges to prevent pension crisis
If Europe doesn't take action its pension system will collapse in 20 years' time, according to a World Bank report. Poland must therefore abolish the pension privileges of certain professional groups, the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza demands: "The Sejm [the lower house of the Polish parliament] should next year rule that miners and soldiers have to work much longer in future, and be integrated into the general pension system. The same goes for public prosecutors. Each year up to now huge costs have arisen which we - and in particular our children - cannot afford to pay. The debate this newspaper has initiated will perhaps serve to mobilise those whose interests no one represents: the employees who have no pension privileges."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Fiscal Policy, » Economic Policy, » Social affairs, » Poland, » Europe
Small pensions in Poland
For the first time in the coming year employees will retire whose pension will come from a pension fund. It is already clear now that they will receive less, because the stock markets have suffered such losses. For this reason Gazeta Wyborcza attacks the pensions policies of previous governments: "Already next year the first people will receive pensions of which initially a small part will come from the fund. Their pensions will be at least ten Złoty lower than one would have estimated a few months ago. Although that is not very much, for the poor every penny counts. And for all of us the feeling that our pensions are safe counts ... Now the [pension] volume has been reduced to zero! The last three goverments of the SLF [post-communists], PiS [national conservatives] and the PO [liberals] are to blame: for even today there is still no law on safe funds in which companies will invest our money when we don't have much time left until retirement."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Demographics, » Financial Markets, » Poland
Poland's Children's Rights Advocate resigns
Poland's Children's Rights Advocate Ewa Sowińska, a contentious figure in Polish politics owing among other things to her attitude towards homosexuals, has resigned. Among her more controversial moves were her admonitions about gay Teletubbies and her proposal to ban sex under the age of 18. Her resignation came after the centre-right liberal ruling PO party and the left-wing opposition alliance LiD proposed in parliament the dismissal of the ultra-right LPR politician. Dominika Wielowieyska writes that the "post of Children's Rights Advocate", the occupants of which are elected by the parliament, should be abolished entirely. "There have been no tangible results since the creation of the post of Children's Rights Advocate. ... Even if the Civic Platform (PO) does find someone really competent for this post, sooner or later another party will come along and want to curry favour with its coalition partner by offering a cosy and well-paid post. Financing this post is just throwing good money away."
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