Steps to combat unemployment in Poland

Steps to combat unemployment in Poland
The Law and Justice minority government is determined to reduce Poland’s unemployment rate by about 1.5 percent this year. Now, unemployment stands at 18.1 percent. Poland’s economic growth is to exceed 5 percent in the autumn, Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has said. His government has drafted a number of bills to combat unemployment and wants to amend the public orders law to encourage more investment in Poland. This is expected to boost economic growth and create jobs. Marcinkiewicz blamed the biggest opposition party, the Civic Platform, for delays in work on this crucial bill.
According to the Ministry of Labor about 600,000 Poles left Poland in 2004 to work legally abroad, but now the number is much bigger. It may be closer to 1 million, according to a count made by parish priests across Poland. Out of 16,000 people from a working class residential quarter in the port city of Gdansk, 1,000 young people went abroad in search of work, mainly in Britain and Ireland. The situation is similar in the south-western industrial region of Silesia.
Research by sociologists shows that out of 100 Poles working away from home, over 40 went to find jobs abroad.

Source: Radio Polonia

Steps to combat unemployment in Poland

Steps to combat unemployment in Poland
The Law and Justice minority government is determined to reduce Poland’s unemployment rate by about 1.5 percent this year. Now, unemployment stands at 18.1 percent. Poland’s economic growth is to exceed 5 percent in the autumn, Prime Minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz has said. His government has drafted a number of bills to combat unemployment and wants to amend the public orders law to encourage more investment in Poland. This is expected to boost economic growth and create jobs. Marcinkiewicz blamed the biggest opposition party, the Civic Platform, for delays in work on this crucial bill.
According to the Ministry of Labor about 600,000 Poles left Poland in 2004 to work legally abroad, but now the number is much bigger. It may be closer to 1 million, according to a count made by parish priests across Poland. Out of 16,000 people from a working class residential quarter in the port city of Gdansk, 1,000 young people went abroad in search of work, mainly in Britain and Ireland. The situation is similar in the south-western industrial region of Silesia.
Research by sociologists shows that out of 100 Poles working away from home, over 40 went to find jobs abroad.

Source: Radio Polonia

Puls Biznesu - English news: U.S. Clearwire plans to buy many frequencies in Poland

U.S. Clearwire plans to buy many frequencies in Poland

The U.S. operator has big funds to invest in Poland. It has bought national frequencies already.

Clearwire, the U.S. mobile internet provider tries to receive radio frequencies for the third time. Even it fails again, it has already reached access to the Polish market. The Americans have twice failed to win national frequencies 3.6-3.8 GHz. The winner was a mysterious E-Internets company, which offered the highest price of PLN 5.6m (EUR 1.5m). The company failed to pay the fee in due time and when it finally did, it turned out that Clearwire was engaged in the process. The U.S. company paid for the frequencies. Now, its subsidiary Clearwire Poland Spectrum is taking part in 37 regional tenders for frequencies. If and when the group will use the frequencies it bought remains secret.

Clearwire cannot be underestimated. Craig McCaw, the founder of one of the first U.S. mobile operators is one of Clearwire’s shareholders. Clearwire offers its services in the USA, Canada and Mexico. Last year, it started applying for radio frequencies in Europe. It wants to operate in every country where the frequencies are available. It is present in Ireland, Belgium and Denmark. It develops through acquisitions as well. It has already spent USD 17-20m for acquisitions. Clearwire has USD 250m from Intel and Bell Canada plus it has USD 260m of a credit.



(PLN 1 = EUR 0.264)

Source: APA - Austria Presse Agentur

U.S., Poland Sign New Science Cooperation Agreement

U.S., Poland Sign New Science Cooperation Agreement

Representatives of the United States and Poland signed a new 10-year Science and Technology (S&T) Cooperation Agreement in Washington February 10 to facilitate broad bilateral scientific cooperation between the two nations.

Poland Minister of Foreign Affairs Stefan Meller and State Department Under Secretary for Democracy and Global Affairs Paula Dobriansky signed the agreement. Polish Ambassador to the United States Janusz Reiter also attended the signing.

“It is my honor to join you today to sign this science and technology agreement between the United States and Poland,” Dobriansky said, citing Poland as a country that has produced 11 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine.

The new agreement follows a 1992-2002 S&T agreement that prompted a range of joint scientific and technological efforts, including:

• The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has shared alternative energy resources with Poland through the Methane to Markets Partnership, a 17-nation initiative that seeks to reduce global methane emissions, promote energy security, improve the environment and reduce greenhouse gases. (See related article.)

• Long-term technical cooperation between experts in the United States and Poland significantly have improved the air and water quality in the ancient Polish capital, Krakow.

• The United States helped preserve the Wieliczka Salt Mine, a UNESCO World Heritage site in Poland that has been mined since the 13th century. Its nine levels contain 300 kilometers of galleries where works of art, altars and statues are sculpted in the salt.

• Joint projects between scientists in the United States and Poland have yielded important medical research publications in many areas, including molecular oncology and fetal cardiology.

The new agreement will allow scientists and engineers from both nations to continue promoting scientific and technical knowledge, implementing advanced and applied scientific and technical projects and expanding scientific and technical capabilities.

Dobriansky said experts in the two nations already are planning joint cancer research and infectious disease projects, and hope to plan projects in the environmental sciences.

“These projects,” she added, “are just a small indication of what types of cooperation and … discoveries are possible when we work together to solve common problems through science, engineering and technology.”