As an economical liberal, I should jump with joy after the Prime Minister's conference on the stock marketplace on Monday. But I can only yawn: here's another unproductive piar from which absolutely nothing will come out. Why do I think that?
First, a moment. This government did not come to power as another emanation of the liberal face of the Civic Platform. I explain to younger readers that this was the case erstwhile – the PO, the backbone of the Civic Coalition, was a organization defining itself as liberal. How much of this was in practice is another matter.
None of this is left in this PO/KO release. We did not hear any specified accents in the exposé in December 2023, and among the 100 specifics per 100 days there were only a fewer of them, apart from returning to a flat-rate calculation of wellness contributions – secondary ones. This 1 has not been, and it is already known that it will not be realised.
And all of a sudden, after over a year of government, the Prime Minister has been dazzled and decided to favour the sky with business and investors? It took him a year to discover that they might have difficulties in Poland? Let's be serious.
For example, there is simply a simple point: “We will limit the time for micro entrepreneurs to six days a year. taxation offices will not extend their controls indefinitely." It has inactive not been implemented, although it would be adequate to order the Minister of Finance.
Secondly, what is the problem for investors and business and what is the Prime Minister not paying attention to? There are at least 2 specified issues, of varying weight, but both important.
The first, with a immense weight, is legal certainty. Legal certainty is essential for business, as the economical departments of the courts are an integral associate in the economical turnover. Meanwhile, the current power led to the collapse of the judiciary – starting from a point that, yes, the predecessors had appointed. However, it was not the predecessors who caused the judgments to be challenged after their collapse not for substantive reasons, but only due to the fact that there were judges who did not like pro-government judges, appointed from the proposal of the National Judicial Council since 2018. The certainty of the law so almost disappeared. And the fun seems to be just getting started.
The second is the coalition power distribution in the government. The minister liable for much of business matters due to the government's division of competences is Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk, Minister of Family, Labour and Social Policy, who had nothing to do with business, but from the far left has an even hostile approach to it. It was from her ministry that the draft amendments to the Regulation on general wellness and safety at work came out, assuming that employers would gotta make complex measurements of the metabolism of workers in order to find the temperature to be set in the workplace. It's most likely deregulation.
Thirdly, a crucial part of the overregulation is the EU's inventions and the question is what the current Polish government is doing about it. In part, these are absurdities stemming from the green order, specified as the EUDR regulation, which has so far been delayed, requiring detailed proof that imported natural materials have not caused deforestation. In part – independent, like the Regulation of May 2023 on general product safety, which introduced confusion especially in online retailers and forced a multitude of employees to make bureaucracy, including new, unnecessary product descriptions.
Fourthly, the Prime Minister epatied an investment sum of PLN 700 billion. In this context, he mentioned unlocking "50 billion euro" from the KPO. Of course, these are fairy tales for the ignorant. erstwhile that KPO is 18 separate tranches, each of which requires different conditions to be fulfilled, and half of them are loans anyway. There is so no mention of a wholesale ‘unlock’. 2 that this money is marked and the largest part of it (more than 42%) must go on a "green transformation" and (more than 23%) digitization.
Critics pointed out that the amount of investment should be measured in relation to GDP and in this dimension it does not look awesome anymore (let us remember that the sums exchanged are not the same money as, for example, 5 years ago – during this period we had evidence inflation, which is inactive high). However, the most crucial thing is the fundamental issue: whether state investment is the best way to start an economy or possibly the key is to deregulation the economy and to take care of tiny and medium-sized entrepreneurs. It is to a large degree a paradigm choice and the Prime Minister chooses here – of course, only in the rhetorical layer – a paradigm resembling the work of the predecessors.
In the area of deregulation, the Prime Minister addressed the man, who is synonymous with business success – Mr Rafał Brzoski, founder of the inPost company. This was like a live Game “So, comrades? Will you help?” Mr.Brzeżska's challenge accepted – possibly on the basis of saying "checking", he had to, possibly he felt that it was essential for him to proceed his business, or possibly he got an attractive offer in the circles of power that we know nothing about. Mr Janusz Kowalski, who wrote on the X, said that Mr Brzoska had decided to stand by and support Mr Tusk's destructive state and called for a talk alternatively with tiny business and micro-entrepreneurs. He besides pointed out that inPost is simply a competition for the falling Polish Post.
The problem is that Poczta Polskiej PiS did not repair for 8 years, and tiny business treated as enemies and milk cows. Therefore, even if there are serious doubts as to whether the tycoon Rafał Brzoska as a deregulation advisor in any way will take care of tiny business, it is hard not to treat the grief of the PiS MP as an untimely reflection on his own behaviour.
But it's most likely not gonna happen. The Prime Minister needed an effective performance before the presidential election. The performance was held, journalists could not ask questions – the end. Mr. Peaches can now make deregulation memorials, and these will be stuck somewhere in ministerial drawers. Mr. Tusk is not Donald Trump, Mr. Peaches is not Elon Musk.
By the way, the government has had an lawyer for deregulation for over a year – Mr. Mariusz Filipek. It was appointed on 31 January by the Minister of improvement and Technology, Mr Krzysztof Hetman: "In accordance with the declaration made to entrepreneurs, the Minister of improvement and Technology, Krzysztof Hetman, appointed a typical for deregulation and economical dialogue. Dr. Mariusz Filipek will be liable for taking legislative action to facilitate the conduct of business." I fishy the Prime Minister doesn't really know that individual like that exists.
Luke Warches
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