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FOR Communication 20/2017: The EC raised GDP forecasts for 14 EU countries more than for Poland | 2017-11-16
moreThe European Commission has raised the forecast of economic growth in 2017 not only for Poland, but for all EU Member States except three (Luxembourg, Greece and Great Britain).
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FOR Communication 19/2017: Publication of data by the Ministry of Finance lacks transparency | 2017-10-30
moreA fair assessment of the state of public finances requires regular access to current data. While the government declares that public finances are in excellent shape, the publications of budget implementation data are increasingly delayed and published irregularly, and VAT returns are being manipulated. This makes it difficult to assess the situation of the state budget, which accounts for half of public expenditure in Poland.
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FOR Communication 18/2017: 350,000 Poles will pay more taxes to cover growing expenditures of the government | 2017-10-27
moreThe project of the Ministry of Labor, planning to abolish the upper limit of mandatory social security contributions since the beginning of 2018, will increase the State's income by about PLN 5.5 billion. Seeking money in the taxpayers’ pockets is a clear proof that PiS government is in dire need of money to finance the costs of election promises. Their repeated assertions that election promises could be financed by sealing of the tax system were just lip service.
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FOR Communication 17/2017: Ministry of Foreign Affairs manipulates information on the reform of the judiciary. FOR discloses and discusses the document sent to the European Commission | 2017-10-23
moreFOR Foundation managed, as the first, to get hold of the document, sent at the end of August 2017 by the foreign minister to the European Commission in response to their third recommendation, from July 2017, on the rule of law in Poland.
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FOR Commentary: Posted workers: the Common Market not really common market any longer | 2017-10-18
he draft amendments to the Directive on delegated workers, which will be debated by the Council of the European Union on 23 October 2017, not only contradict the principle of free movement of workers by preventing companies from the poorer EU countries from using their comparative advantage in the form of lower wage expectations of posted workers. It also means that rigorous official checks will be a permitted in the EU to verify that all workers working at the same place in the same position are paid equally.more -
FOR Communication 16/2017: Trade ban on two Sundays per month: PiS ignores a less harmful solution | 2017-10-10
moreThe ban on Sunday trading, forced by the Law and Justice party (PiS) and its associate, "Solidarity," will hamper the freedom of people as consumers, and threaten workers with redundancies. The declared goal of the latest version of the prohibition proposed by PiS - to provide two free Sundays to retail workers - can be achieved without causing harm, without restricting the freedom of consumers, and without creating the risk of redundancies.
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FOR Communication 15/2017: State companies attack the courts on party order | 2017-09-11
moreThe Law and Justice Party (PiS) uses companies controlled by the State Treasury to push for changes in the judiciary that are detrimental to economic growth and civil liberties. At the same time, state-owned enterprises save the Polish Mining Group from bankruptcy and the Polish Insurance Company participates in the nationalization of the Pekao bank. The lack of privatization proves to be a threat not only to the economy but also to the freedom of public debate.
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Communication 14/2017: Extension of preferential social security contributions does not provide a system solution | 2017-09-05
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