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Marek Bucko: Decision Of EU Commission On Poland Dictated By Interests Of Big European Business

Marek Bucko: Decision Of EU Commission On Poland Dictated By Interests Of Big European Business
MAREK BUCKO
PHOTO: POLSKIERADIO.PL

Tax reforms of the Law and Justice (Prawo i Sprawiedliwość, or PiS) are decreasing returns of large European banks and corporations in the Polish market.

It has been said in the interview to charter97.org by the deputy head of Freedom and Democracy Foundation, Poland, the former Polish Embassy First Secretary Marek, commenting on the decision of the European Commission to review the reforms of the Constitutional Court in Poland for compliance with democracy principles.

This decision of the European Commission has become a result of a campaign, launched by some Polish media in the West, and also by some politicians, who had fallen from power as a result of the democratic elections in Poland. They misinformed European journalists and politicians, and that is why such a decision of the European Commission, does not even remotely resembling what is really going on in Poland, has been passed.

What is distressing, this decision had been taken unanimously, moreover, the representative of the Civil Platform, who is a member of the European Commission now, voted in favour of it. It means that she does not associate herself with the interests of Poland, not interested in the truth, and fundamentally, from the perspective of ethics, cannot represent Poland in the European Commission.

Speaking about the recent reforms of the PiS party – they have been recently enumerated in the speech by Prime Minister Beata Szydło, so I am not going to touch upon them – one could only state that in a few weeks the Law and Justice has initiated more reforms than the Civil Platform within the last 4 years.

It is obvious that such reforms as the additional tax for Western companies, hypermarkets and banks, which stimulate them to pay taxes to the Polish budget, and not to the foreign ones, as well as the real policy of Germany in this issue, are really aimed at defending economic interests of big German and other Western corporations in Poland, who are fearing to lose their superprofits, not on defence of “human rights.”

Under the guise of a struggle for human rights and democratic freedoms in Poland, we are facing a struggle for keeping one’s sources of income intact.

– How necessary was the mass media reform, initiated by the ruling party?

– In reality, as a result of the revision held by the Civil Platform in the years of its rule, all journalists critical to the ruling party and the government were expelled. Within the last 8 years there has been no independence of the public media. And what is happening in the recent days is an open propaganda against the current government, elected in the democratic election, without any hint of objectivity.

During the epoch of the Civil Platform mass media were not independent, and now there is an attempt to reform and restore their health is being made. This is not about domination of the political party that has won, but simply about returning the balance to the media.

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