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Rafał Trzeciakowski: More Flexibility in Regulating Working Time Needed in Poland, 4Liberty | 2020-01-28
moreMany labor market regulations were created with large mid-20th century manufacturing plants in mind – which is the spirit of the Polish Labor Code of 1974. However, along with the process of industrial automation as well as the growth of employment in services, the economic reality has changed.
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FOR Comment: Reduce the Rigidity of the Regulation of Working Time | 2020-01-15
moreMany labour regulations were created for large industrial plants from the mid-20th century - this is also the spirit of the Polish Labour Code of 1974. However, with the automation of industry and the increase in employment in services, economic realities changed. The increasingly popular flexible working time makes it easier to balance private life with work in a way better suited to individual preferences and lifestyles, often to the benefit of productivity.
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Patryk Wachowiec: 1460 Days Later: Rule of Law in Poland R.I.P., Verfassungsblog | 2020-01-13
moreOn 13 January 2016, exactly four years ago today, the Commission activated its rule of law framework for the very first time with respect to Poland.
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Leszek Balcerowicz: 'Ticking bomb': Poland's economic progress under threat, Reuters | 2019-12-17
moreThirty years ago, Leszek Balcerowicz unleashed the “shock therapy” that put Poland on the path to rapid economic growth after decades of communist rule. Business boomed, the economy expanded and the former finance minister and central bank chief won plaudits in the West for his reforms.
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Patryk Wachowiec: The laws proposed by the rulling party will undermine the primacy of EU law, Financial Times | 2019-12-15
morePatryk Wachowiec, a legal analyst at the Civil Development Forum, said this change was particularly troubling as it would undermine the primacy of EU law.
“Since 1964, the inherent principle of primacy of EU law over national law has been recognised in ECJ case law: judges have an obligation to disapply national law when it is contrary to EU law, without consulting their own national constitutional tribunal,” he said.
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Open Letter to the President of the European Commission regarding Poland’s disciplinary regime for judges | 2019-12-11
moreEver since the European Commission initiated a third infringement procedure in respect to the recurrent attacks on the rule of law by Polish authorities last April, the situation has continued to seriously deteriorate. We have now reached the unprecedented and frightening stage where Polish judges are being subject to harassment tactics in the form of multiple arbitrary disciplinary investigations, formal disciplinary proceedings and/or sanctions for applying EU law as interpreted by the ECJ or ‘daring’ to refer questions for a preliminary ruling to the Court of Justice.
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American celebration of 30 Years of Freedom in Poland | 2019-11-26
moreIn mid-November 2019 Leszek Balcerowicz and Lech Wałęsa visited Washington DC to participate in events organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the transformation and political changes in Poland as part of the "30 Years of Freedom" project.
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FOR Communication 34/2019: Morawiecki' s policy speech: a review of statements and announcements | 2019-11-25
moreIn his policy speech Mateusz Morawiecki largely repeated his standard narrative about the messianic role of Law and Justice in the history of the Third Republic of Poland. The opportunity ("historical moment") faced by Poland in 1989 was "only partially seized". What is worse, "neoliberalism caused a conceptual confusion and a mess in the value system".
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FOR Communication 33/2019: The Disciplinary Chamber and the new National Council of the Judiciary under the EU pillory: the consequences of the CJEU judgment of 19 November 2019 | 2019-11-22
moreThe ruling of the EU Court of Justice (CJEU) concerning the Disciplinary Chamber and the new National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) is another ruling concerning changes in the Polish judiciary in recent years. It answers only some of the doubts, and further answers are expected in 2020.
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Leszek Balcerowicz: From communism to freedom, La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana | 2019-11-20
more30 years after the velvet revolutions of Eastern Europe, the think tank Istituto Bruno Leoni has awarded its prize celebrating freedom to the Polish economist Leszek Balcerowicz. In 1989 he was the key man of the reforms in Poland, the first country that went from communism to the free market. The NBQ asked him how he did.