Polish economy to be 20th largest globally in 2025, says Tusk
Poland's economy is to become the 20th largest in the world in terms of nominal gross domestic product (GDP) this year, Prime Minister Donald Tusk has said.
Speaking at an event promoting deregulation which was held at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Monday, Tusk also said that in 2025 the purchasing power of a Pole would surpass that of a Japanese national.
Tusk said that the government's goal was to bring the everyday life of every Polish household to a "distinctively higher level", which would require a completely new type of effort in terms of promoting innovation, smart economy and deregulation, turning them into a new paradigm for the country's economy.
Maciej Berek, the head of the Standing Committee of the Council of Ministers, who was also present at the event, said that so far, the government had approved 125 deregulation initiatives, more than the 100 it initially announced.
A few months ago, Tusk appointed a deregulation team to which he invited prominent businesspeople in a bid to reduce red tape for entrepreneurs and spur business activity.
"By the end of May we'll be ready with more than 100 deregulation bills; about 120,000 regulations will be waived," Tusk told the private news broadcaster TVN24 at that time.
Also on Monday, the leader of the deregulation team and president of the Polish parcel locker company InPost, Rafal Brzoska, said that over 100 days, the team had come up with 500 deregulation proposals, of which 175 were formalised and nearly 20 had been signed into law by the Polish president.
"I realise how difficult it was to keep up the pace for the civic initiative comprising 600 experts working pro bono... to formulate... those 500 proposals," he said, adding that the government and the parliament had also worked relentlessly to deliver on the initial promise, which Brzoska considered a shared success.
In his opinion, this could not have been accomplished without the thousands of citizens who proposed their ideas in an open and transparent way. "It seems to me that citizens, all of us, have contributed the most," he said. (PAP)
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