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The “tape-recording scandal” (the weekly, Wprost, published secretly recorded, private con-versations between several top politicians and influencers connected to the ruling party) is still one of main political topics in Poland. Since the release of the first recordings, the government successfully passed a non-confidence vote in par-liament and several attempts to dismiss the min-isters featured in the recordings.

The main opposition party (Kaczynski’s Law and Justice - PiS) attempted to introduce a “tech-nical government,” but decided not to form a coalition with other opposition parties, losing the vote completely. PiS also tried to unite the right wing of Polish political scene and con-ducted series of meetings with other parties’ leaders, but the final “Right Unity Congress”

was not a success. None of right wing parties’ leaders were present. In attendance were only Jacek Kurski, a previously influential member of PiS who decided to leave the party several years ago and now seems to be returning, and former MP of the ruling Civic Platform, Andrzej Smirnow, who left his party few weeks ago. Additionally, Piotr Duda, the leader of Solidarity trade union, was also present, confirming his informal alliance with Law and Justice.

The other two small right-wing parties (Solidarna Polska and Polska Razem) united in parliament, creating the small parliamentary club “Just Po-land”. They do not want to formally join Law and Justice or enter the formal coalition yet, as in past this has led to the disappearance our ab-sorption of smaller coalition parties.

After the summer holidays, we can expect con-stant debates on the form and source rather than the content of the recordings and, possibly, the change of the position of minister of interior.

The last session of parliament is planned for 22-25 of July.

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Former Deputy Treasury Minister Paweł Tambor-ski was appointed by the General Meeting of the Stock Exchange to the position of CEO. As of today, Tamborski’s candidacy has yet to be con-firmed by the Financial Supervision Commission. Votes of the Stock Exchange shareholders: 32.2 million voted in favor, 3.3 million were against and 0.64 million abstained. From November 2010 to January 2012, Tamborski served as the head of investment banking at Wood & Compa-ny. From 2008-2010, he worked as a managing director at Unicredit CAIB Securities in London. Tamborski had been undersecretary of state treasury since January, 2012.

June 27

President Bronislaw Komorowski nominated Małgorzata Omilanowska to the position of Min-ister of Culture and National Heritage.

June 17

“Energy and low carbon economy, what to do to be profitable.” The meeting was held on 26 June 2014 at the Ministry of Economy.

June 26

“The development of renewable energy sources can be one of the components of the energy security of the European Union” - said Deputy Minister Jerzy Pietrewicz at the opening of the conference entitled. “Biogas: A Polish opportu-nity for agriculture, the environment and the economy.” The meeting was held on 18 June 2014 at the Ministry of Economy.

June 18

The aims and objectives of the Polish Energy Policy until 2050 were the main topics of the meeting of the Committee on Strategic Economic Thought. The meeting opened by Deputy Prime Minister Ja-nusz Piechociński took place on 3 July 2014, the Ministry of Economy.

July 4

“Climate policy objectives cannot be in conflict with the objectives of other EU policies, including energy, industrial and commercial policies” - said Deputy Minister Jerzy Pietrewicz during the tenth edition of the International Conference NEUF 2014

Dariusz Bogdan, who recently resigned from the post of Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Economy will receive a position in Gaz-System. Well-informed sources claim that Arkadiusz Bąk, former director of Minister Piechociński’s politi-cal cabinet, will be Bogdan’s successor.

July 7

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At the moment, the EU continues to work on new legislation regarding roaming charges. The essence of the regulation is to bring even greater benefits to users by introducing and consolidating the mod-el of offers that provide roam-like-at-home i.e. a model in which roaming calls are the same price as domestic calls).

June 26

Minister Trzaskowski inaugurated the working of the Council for Digitization. The Minister of Ad-ministration and Digitization invited to participate in the Council: a lawyer and expert on the devel-opment of the Internet, an activist for freedom and human rights, recognized experts in the fields of computerization, media and new technologies, network security, privacy, and telecommunica-tions law.

June 17

Regulation of the Minister of Administration and Digitization on the rules for submission and consid-eration of complaints on telecommunications ser-vices entered into force on 8 of June. The amend-ments concerns the choice of form of contact with the telephone company and decreasing the time frame for e-mail based replies.

June 8

“Opening of this new factory enables the devel-opment and production of weapons with superior design parameters and quality, it also enables us to increase the range of products and services” - said Beata Oczkowicz Undersecretary of State in the Ministry of Defense, during the grand open-ing of the new headquarters of Weapons Factory “Łucznik” in Radom.

July 1

During Tuesday’s meeting, the Council of Ministers adopted guidelines for the draft law amending the Aviation Law, submitted by the Minister of National Defence. The proposed change allows civil trans-port aircraft, both Polish and foreign, to land at Polish military airports for the purpose of carrying out tasks of the armed forces of Poland.

June 17

Polish - Estonian security consultations with rep-resentatives of the ministries of defense and for-eign ministers of the two countries were held at the Estonian Air Base Ämari.

June 16

Poland has passed a new law related to public pro-curement and offset. The main point of this law is the shift in focus of the reciprocal investments known as offset. Rather than “benefiting the economy of Poland” as it was previously define, offset should “contribute to the national security of Poland.” Such a shift is part of a broader mod-ernization of Poland’s military and brings Polish law more in line with the European Union.

July 7th

Finance Minister Mateusz Szczurek took part in the meeting of the ECOFIN Council, which took place on July 8th, in Brussels. It was the first meeting of finance ministers of the EU Member States since the start of Italy’s EU presidency. During the meet-ing, the Italian Minister of Finance presented the key issues that the Council will deal with through the second half of the year. Topics presented in-cluded: a stronger banking union, a fiscal strategy focused on growth and social stability and struc-tural reforms conducive to growth and innovation.

July 8

Since July this year significant reductions in the cost of accepting cards by retail and service points can be expected. This is related to amendment to the Act of 19 August 2011 on payment services, which significantly reduces the amount of one of the main charges incurred by retail and service points from accepting payment cards (interchange fee). This has been achieved through the involve-ment of Polish entrepreneurs gathered around the Foundation for the Development of non-cash Pay-ments (Fundacja Rozwoju Obrotu Bezgotówkow-ego) and appreciation of the importance of the problem by the legislature. As a result, Poland is a role model for developing robust anti-trust prac-tices in local markets from which derive other EU countries such as Spain.

July 1

“Ensuring the competitiveness of the EU, support-ing growth and employment and addressing the growing backlog of reimbursement of expenses” - are, according to European Commissioner for Fi-nancial Programming and Budget Janusz Lewand-owski, the key elements of the draft EU budget

for next year. EU finance ministers took note of information from the European Commission on the draft EU budget for 2015, at the ECOFIN Council meeting June 20 in Luxembourg.

June 26

The next session of Sejm (Lower House of Parliament) will be held on the 24th & 25th of July, 2014.

The next session of Senate will be held on the 23rd 24th of July.

August is the month of parliamentary vacations in Poland.

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