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Polish Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, wants to nationalize people’s private pension funds. Is it possible to prevent him from taking this dreadful step? In 1999 Poland, like Hungary and other central European countries, moved from a traditional...
When in 2010 we started our project on the reconsideration of welfare state in Poland and called it “liberal social policy” many people were totally surprised. Why should liberals get engaged in such issues? We were accused of coining a...
INESS Policy Note 3/2012 Radovan Ďurana, August 2012 Quo vadis Pension System? Summary The reform of the pension system will not eliminate large deficits in the foreseeable future Due to pension reform, the pensions of hundreds of thousands...
Since regaining independence some twenty years ago Latvia, a small, open economy has been tormented by three economic crises: first one resulting from the economic transition (institutional change from centrally planned to free market economy),...
Annual PIT settlement is a good moment to think how much Polish state actually costs us. Taxpayers” money are spent not only by the government, but also by the local governments, NFZ, ZUS, KRUS and other public institutions. In 2011 they...
As The Warsaw Voice writes on Monday, March 26, there were protests of Solidarity trade union members against governmental plans to increase the retirement age. Several hundreds of protesters gathered in Warsaw, in front of the prime minister’s...
