Monthly summary of key policy developments in Poland (for June/July 2014) The "tape scandal" resulted in no changes in the government (yet), but the support for Donald Tusk's government dropped. The main opposition party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski's PiS (Law and Justice) leads polls with 35% of support. PO (ruling Civic Platform) has only 23%. SLD (the Left) has 8% and New Right - 5%. The second coalition party, PSL, has only 4% of support - therefore wouldn't make it to the parliament if that is the result of elections. The second result of the "tape scandal" is a consolidation of the right part of the political scene; Law and Justice finally signed the agreement with Zbigniew Ziobro's Solidarna Polska and Jaroslaw Gowin's Polska Razem. While not changing anything in polls, this move prevents the division of votes in the November local election between very similar parties. Zbigniew Ziobro was in past the very popular right-wing politician, who left PiS few years ago. Jaroslaw Gowin is the conservative liberal, former member of Civic Platform and former minister of justice in Donald Tusk's government. His economical views are completely different to those presented by Law and Justice. The last session of parliament before summer holidays begins today. Therefore the next issue of Warsaw Insight will be published in two months. In case of important events in between, we will distribute the "alert" with a summary and analysis of the change.

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The “tape-recording scandal” (the weekly,
Wprost, published secretly recorded, private con-
versations between several top politicians and
influencers connected to the ruling party) is still
one of main political topics in Poland. Since the
release of the first recordings, the government
successfully passed a non-confidence vote in par-
liament and several attempts to dismiss the min-
isters featured in the recordings.
The main opposition party (Kaczynski’s Law and
Justice - PiS) attempted to introduce a “tech-
nical government,” but decided not to form a
coalition with other opposition parties, losing
the vote completely. PiS also tried to unite the
right wing of Polish political scene and con-
ducted series of meetings with other parties’
leaders, but the final “Right Unity Congress”
was not a success. None of right wing parties’
leaders were present. In attendance were only
Jacek Kurski, a previously influential member of
PiS who decided to leave the party several years
ago and now seems to be returning, and former
MP of the ruling Civic Platform, Andrzej Smirnow,
who left his party few weeks ago. Additionally,
Piotr Duda, the leader of Solidarity trade union,
was also present, confirming his informal alliance
with Law and Justice.
The other two small right-wing parties (Solidarna
Polska and Polska Razem) united in parliament,
creating the small parliamentary club “Just Po-
land”. They do not want to formally join Law and
Justice or enter the formal coalition yet, as in
past this has led to the disappearance our ab-
sorption of smaller coalition parties.
After the summer holidays, we can expect con-
stant debates on the form and source rather than
the content of the recordings and, possibly, the
change of the position of minister of interior.
The last session of parliament is planned for 22-25
of July.
Lukasz Jachowicz, head of Public Affairs, MSL-
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Former Deputy Treasury Minister Paweł Tambor-
ski was appointed by the General Meeting of
the Stock Exchange to the position of CEO. As of
today, Tamborski’s candidacy has yet to be con-
firmed by the Financial Supervision Commission.
Votes of the Stock Exchange shareholders: 32.2
million voted in favor, 3.3 million were against
and 0.64 million abstained. From November
2010 to January 2012, Tamborski served as the
head of investment banking at Wood & Compa-
ny. From 2008-2010, he worked as a managing
director at Unicredit CAIB Securities in London.
Tamborski had been undersecretary of state
treasury since January, 2012.
June 27
President Bronislaw Komorowski nominated
Małgorzata Omilanowska to the position of Min-
ister of Culture and National Heritage.
June 17
“Energy and low carbon economy, what to do
to be profitable.” The meeting was held on 26
June 2014 at the Ministry of Economy.
June 26
“The development of renewable energy sources
can be one of the components of the energy
security of the European Union” - said Deputy
Minister Jerzy Pietrewicz at the opening of the
conference entitled. “Biogas: A Polish opportu-
nity for agriculture, the environment and the
economy.” The meeting was held on 18 June
2014 at the Ministry of Economy.
June 18
The aims and objectives of the Polish Energy Policy
until 2050 were the main topics of the meeting
of the Committee on Strategic Economic Thought.
The meeting opened by Deputy Prime Minister Ja-
nusz Piechociński took place on 3 July 2014, the
Ministry of Economy.
July 4
“Climate policy objectives cannot be in conflict
with the objectives of other EU policies, including
energy, industrial and commercial policies” - said
Deputy Minister Jerzy Pietrewicz during the tenth
edition of the International Conference NEUF 2014
Dariusz Bogdan, who recently resigned from the
post of Undersecretary of State in the Ministry
of Economy will receive a position in Gaz-System.
Well-informed sources claim that Arkadiusz Bąk,
former director of Minister Piechociński’s politi-
cal cabinet, will be Bogdan’s successor.
July 7

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At the moment, the EU continues to work on new
legislation regarding roaming charges. The essence
of the regulation is to bring even greater benefits
to users by introducing and consolidating the mod-
el of offers that provide roam-like-at-home i.e. a
model in which roaming calls are the same price
as domestic calls).
June 26
Minister Trzaskowski inaugurated the working of
the Council for Digitization. The Minister of Ad-
ministration and Digitization invited to participate
in the Council: a lawyer and expert on the devel-
opment of the Internet, an activist for freedom
and human rights, recognized experts in the fields
of computerization, media and new technologies,
network security, privacy, and telecommunica-
tions law.
June 17
Regulation of the Minister of Administration and
Digitization on the rules for submission and consid-
eration of complaints on telecommunications ser-
vices entered into force on 8 of June. The amend-
ments concerns the choice of form of contact with
the telephone company and decreasing the time
frame for e-mail based replies.
June 8
“Opening of this new factory enables the devel-
opment and production of weapons with superior
design parameters and quality, it also enables us
to increase the range of products and services” -
said Beata Oczkowicz Undersecretary of State in
the Ministry of Defense, during the grand open-
ing of the new headquarters of Weapons Factory
“Łucznik” in Radom.
July 1
During Tuesday’s meeting, the Council of Ministers
adopted guidelines for the draft law amending the
Aviation Law, submitted by the Minister of National
Defence. The proposed change allows civil trans-
port aircraft, both Polish and foreign, to land at
Polish military airports for the purpose of carrying
out tasks of the armed forces of Poland.
June 17
Polish - Estonian security consultations with rep-
resentatives of the ministries of defense and for-
eign ministers of the two countries were held at
the Estonian Air Base Ämari.
June 16
Poland has passed a new law related to public pro-
curement and offset. The main point of this law
is the shift in focus of the reciprocal investments
known as offset. Rather than “benefiting the
economy of Poland” as it was previously define,
offset should “contribute to the national security
of Poland.” Such a shift is part of a broader mod-
ernization of Poland’s military and brings Polish
law more in line with the European Union.
July 7th
Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek took part in the
meeting of the ECOFIN Council, which took place
on July 8th, in Brussels. It was the first meeting of
finance ministers of the EU Member States since
the start of Italy’s EU presidency. During the meet-
ing, the Italian Minister of Finance presented the
key issues that the Council will deal with through
the second half of the year. Topics presented in-
cluded: a stronger banking union, a fiscal strategy
focused on growth and social stability and struc-
tural reforms conducive to growth and innovation.
July 8
Since July this year significant reductions in the
cost of accepting cards by retail and service points
can be expected. This is related to amendment to
the Act of 19 August 2011 on payment services,
which significantly reduces the amount of one of
the main charges incurred by retail and service
points from accepting payment cards (interchange
fee). This has been achieved through the involve-
ment of Polish entrepreneurs gathered around the
Foundation for the Development of non-cash Pay-
ments (Fundacja Rozwoju Obrotu Bezgotówkow-
ego) and appreciation of the importance of the
problem by the legislature. As a result, Poland is a
role model for developing robust anti-trust prac-
tices in local markets from which derive other EU
countries such as Spain.
July 1

5. “Ensuring the competitiveness of the EU, support-
ing growth and employment and addressing the
growing backlog of reimbursement of expenses”
- are, according to European Commissioner for Fi-
nancial Programming and Budget Janusz Lewand-
owski, the key elements of the draft EU budget
for next year. EU finance ministers took note of
information from the European Commission on the
draft EU budget for 2015, at the ECOFIN Council
meeting June 20 in Luxembourg.
June 26
The next session of Sejm (Lower House of Parliament) will be held on the 24th &
25th of July, 2014.
The next session of Senate will be held on the 23rd 24th of July.
August is the month of parliamentary vacations in Poland.
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