Polish populist government crossed the Rubicon leading to dictature

Thursday, 26 January 2012 08:51

Polish populist government signed ACTA this morning. And crossed the Rubicon leading to dictature. The office of the prime minister erased critical comments of citizens from its Facebook profile, and blocked critics from further commentaries on the page. Yes, this is ... Read more...

Poland will sign ACTA- claims Polish secretary of state

Monday, 23 January 2012 16:54

Poland will sign ACTA- claims Michal Boni, Polish secretary of state (minister) in charge of digital technologies and administration on the pages of Poland's most pro-governmental daily. Numerous protests in Internet brought very little. Polish public opinion is ruled b ... Read more...

Poland will sign ACTA- claims Polish secretary of state

Monday, 23 January 2012 16:54

Poland will sign ACTA- claims Michal Boni, Polish secretary of state (minister) in charge of digital technologies and administration on the pages of Poland's most pro-governmental daily. Numerous protests in Internet brought very little. Polish public opinion is ruled b ... Read more...

Obituary: Andrzej Lepper, symbol of an era

Sunday, 07 August 2011 20:01

Obituary- Andrzej Lepper End of a populist politican in a country with particularily high mortality rate among populist politicians There is something particularly scary, shocking and moving in Andrzej Lepper’s death. He seemed to be a particularly strong personality ... Read more...

"Electoral Newspaper" and its enemies

Thursday, 14 April 2011 06:46

I never thought that the ressentiments against Polish "regime-controlled" daily Gazeta Wyborcza are so popular. Here You have what the footbal fans made of Wyborcza- they renamed it "bull shit" using thousands of coloured items. Similar stickers You find glued to walls ... Read more...

Is Polish GDP mis-calculated? Are the Polish macroeconomic data being forged?

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 15:33

One British newspaper, "The Economist", portrayed Poland as "green island" among the red-coloured sea. However, the reality seems different in my opionion. My impressions: the accounting of Polish public sector is very poor. There is "no tradition" of public sector book ... Read more...

Election fraud is one of Polish problems

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 15:26

I wrote some time ago claiming that the Polish GDP is miscalculated. I got the response for my questions from Polish Main Statistical Office, however they indicated the methodology and said nothing about the missing accounting of Polish public sector (such as communal h ... Read more...

Foreign donors supporting Polish NGO's should reasses the way they spend funds

Wednesday, 06 April 2011 14:42

Being a liberal writer and free- market economist, I am fed up with the way how foreign foundations are using their money in Polish case. In Poland there is in my opinion no mainstream media that would publish an article debatting, for example, whether tolerance influen ... Read more...