4. Government & Political Conditions:
The current government structure
consists of a council of ministers led
by a Prime Minister
The parliament consists of the 460-
member sejm and the 100- member
senate or upper house.
Parties represented in the sejm in
order of number of seats are
Civic platform (PO)
Law and Justice (PiS)
The Democratic Left Alliance(SLD)
The Polish People’s Party (PSL)
Poland Comes First (PJN)
Social Democracy of Poland (SDPL).
7. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy:
Waldemar Pawlak (PSL)
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Radoslaw Sikorski (PO)
Minister of Defense--Tomasz Siemoniak (PO)
Minister of Finance--Jacek Rostowski (PO)
Minister of Treasury--Aleksander Grad (PO)
Minister of Science and Higher Education--Barbara
Kudrycka (PO
Minister of Environment--Andrzej Kraszewski (non-party)
Minister of Health--Ewa Kopacz (PO)
Minister of Culture and National Heritage--Bogdan
Zdrojewski (PO)
Minister of Justice--Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (PO)
Minister of Labor and Social Policy--Jolanta Fedak (PSL)
Minister of Sport--Adam Giersz (non-party)
8. Economical Conditions:
Poland’s perennial question. A major
European powerhouse or a backwater
supplying cheap labor?
Exports : $197.1 billion (2011 est.)
Imports: :$217.9 billion (2011 est.)
9. The economic transformations were launched in 1990
by the shock therapy authored by the then deputy
premier and finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz .
Once dominated by raw materials primarily coal
today’s polish exports are increasingly composed of
highly processed goods ,car and car parts, machinery
and electronics,furniture,non precious metals and
metal products.
Imports include machinery and transport equipment,
intermediate manufactured goods, chemicals,
minerals, fuels and lubricants.
10. Many Polish factories have
become part of the German
supply chain because of Poland’s
high productivity and low wages.
Poland has a balanced economy,
big on energy, agriculture,
manufacturing, high tech
research and development.
Since 2004, when Poland joined
the EU and had access to EU
structural funds, unemployment
has remained perniciously high,
but inflation is low
11. Poland’s yachting industry
is experiencing
phenomenal growth and is
set to become a European
yacht-building hub, whose
products are marked by
high quality and low prices.
In 2010, the value of its
sales reached almost $500
million, giving Poland
about five percent of a
global market that is
currently valued at around
$11.5 billion.
12. Social
On June 4th 1989,poland entered a new epoch. On that
day for the first time in the communist bloc, the
democratic opposition won what was virtually a free
election. Two months later a non-communist
government was formed. The whole of Central and
Eastern Europe started waking up frm this historical
torpor. The communist foundations has been
shattered by the Solidarity movement and its leader
,Lech Walesa, who was awarded the nobel prize.
15. Since then Poland has
become a country of colorful
shops,international
labels,new technologies and
dynamic people.In
restructuring their
country,Poles have
demonstrated their optimism
and initiative,without losing
any of the spontaneity,
hospitality and romantic
touch which has always won
the the appreciation of
foreigners.
16. Polish is spoken by some 50 million
people around the globe,
including virtually all Polish
citizens and a diaspora in Europe
and North America. London,
Dublin and Chicago are the
biggest Polish centres outside
Poland’s borders
Faith: According to official
statistics, 34.6m out of 38m
citizens of Poland are members of
some religious group. Over 33m
are Roman catholics
17. Technology
The traditions of Polish science
dates back to the middle ages. In
1364,the first Polish University was
formed. In 1883 two poles
Zygmunt Wroblewski and Karol
Olszewski liquefied oxygen and
nitrogen from the air. Marie Curie
Sklodowska won two Nobel prizes,
in 1903 for physics and in 1911 for
chemistry, she discovered
polonium and radium. Ignacy
Lukasiewicz was the inventor of oil
lamp, a pioneer in oil industry.
18. Polish scientists are patenting global industrial
production of graphene, a miraculous material that is
set revolutionise electronics. With better
conductivity than copper it is one hundred times
stronger than steel. Graphene was invented at the
Institute of Materials Technology (ITME) in Warsaw.
19. A new technology is developed by the company
Ammono. This small company, has developed a new
method for synthesising the best, biggest and purest
crystals of gallium nitride.
Cardiac surgery robots The second important project
brings together high technology and the medical
sciences. Scientists at the Foundation for the
Development of Cardiosurgery (have created a series
of cardiac surgery robots known as the Robin Heart
Family The Robin Heart robots are high-precision
surgical devices for use in cardiac surgery.
20. Judiciary of Poland is a responsibility,
as defined by the constitution of
Poland of a four-tier court system:
the Supreme Court of Poland,
the common courts administrative
courts (including the Supreme
Administrative Court of Poland)
and military courts.
The common courts, divided
into appellate courts, district courts
and regional courts have the
competency in criminal, civil,
economic, labor and family law.
