Donald Tusk's first government statement

On Friday the new Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, presented his cabinet's agenda in a government statement lasting three hours. He called for the prompt introduction of the euro and announced that the EU Fundamental Rights Charter would not be signed against President Lech Kaczynski's will. He was rather vague on the subject of domestic policies. Bronislaw Wildstein criticises Tusk for promising the impossible in his speech: "Generally speaking one could say that this was an attempt to lead Poland into a phase of 'post-politics' - a political style that was effectively executed by former US President Bill Clinton and British Prime Minister Tony Blair. ... 'Post-politics' means that politics is replaced by marketing and governance is replaced by administration. In reality we depend on politics, and all post- or anti-politics serve only to conceal their real contents. This approach covers up conflicts rather than solving them."

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