Polish Government Financial Reform Or Spring Cleaning In Poland

Warsaw, Poland 5 April, 2007 Poland's government announced its long-awaited plan for financial reform that has been greeted by the opposition as nothing more than Polish string cleaning.

Poland's Minister of Finance Zyta Gilowska announced at a press conference, attended by Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski, a plan for reform of the public finances. That reform entails the closing of three government administrative agencies and putting about 100,000 people out of work. The reform is expected, according to the Minister of Finance, save about 10 billion Zloty over the next two years after the agencies are closed. The reform is expected, or hoped, to go in place within here a year. Opposition party leader Donald Tusk said that this is the 13th press conference held by the Polish Government concerning financial reform and nothing has happened yet. He and other opposition politicians described the reform package in words that range from as nothing more than Poland Spring cleaning to insignificant changes. Neither the Prime Minister nor Financial Minister made any comments about what would happen to the 100,000 workers to be laid off. And they made no comments as to what would happen to the work that these people have been doing.
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