Law and Justice

Planned 2020 balanced budget has room for fiscal stimulation - ministry

“It needs to be stressed that Moody's, despite a negative assessment of indicated activities in the field of economic policy, does not foresee a breach of the expenditures regulation, or EU regulations in the area of excessive deficit,” the Entrepreneurship Ministry wrote in a commentary to Moody's note. Tomasz Gzell/PAP

Poland, with a balanced budget planned for 2020, has room for fiscal stimulation, the Ministry of Entrepreneurship and Technology wrote on Tuesday in response to a critical report from rating agency Moody's.

Poland's PiS wins second term in power

Incumbent ruling Law and Justice party (PiS) and its junior partners won Sunday's parliamentary election and secured a ruling majority in the lower house of parliament, the State Electoral Commission (PKW) said Monday evening announcing the official results of the vote.

United Right - 43.6 pct, Civic Coalition 27.4 pct - exit poll

Poland's ruling coalition United Right, led by the conservative but socially-oriented Law and Justice party (PiS), received 43.6 percent of the vote in Sunday's parliamentary elections, an Ipsos exit poll for public and private TV stations showed.

Die Welt: Thanks to Law and Justice Poles benefit from prosperity

“Poland is now experiencing an economic miracle and it seems that it is the national-conservatives who ensure the widespread use of prosperity by the general public. Not post-communists or the liberal-conservative Civic Platform,” says the Berlin newspaper.

With voter turnout at its highest since joining the EU, TFN looks at the winners and losers of yesterday’s crucial Euro elections

With 99.25 percent of votes counted in the European Parliamentary elections, TFN takes a look at who won, who lost and who will represent Poland for the next five years. With only three main forces passing the election threshold, the distribution of 52 Polish seats in the EP is proving to be a close call in many cases.

Ruling party wins Polish EP elections - results from 99.25 pct of polling stations

Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) won the Sunday elections to the European Parliament having received 45.57 percent of votes, the State Electoral Commission (PKW) announced on Monday morning, presenting results from 99.25 percent of polling stations.

Law and Justice wins Polish EP elections - exit polls

Poland's ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) won the Sunday elections to the European Parliament, an Ipsos exit poll for TVP, TVN and Polsat television stations showed.

Ruling party leader promises tough action on paedophilia

The chairman of Poland's ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, Jarosław Kaczyński, announced during a regional party convention in Szczecin (northern Poland) on Sunday, ruthless punishment for paedophilia and a raising of the threshold age for child abuse.

Programme proposals are investments not costs - Polish PM

All retirees will receive support from the Retirement Plus programme every year from 2019, including disability claimants, and income tax will be waived for all workers under 26, apart from those who are self-employed, PM Mateusz Morawiecki has told PAP.

Poland's former PM Jan Olszewski dies aged 88

Jan Olszewski, who served as Poland's prime minister in 1991-1992, has died, ruling party Law and Justice (PiS) senior member Antoni Macierewicz told PAP on Friday.

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