-- APRIL FOOL'S IN SEPTEMBER? POLLSTER FOR SE CHECKED THE RATINGS IF ANDRZEJ DUDA'S PRESIDENTIAL PARTY WERE TO BE FORMED: Civic Coalition came first in the poll with 30.86%. United Right took second place – 25.65% of respondents expressed a desire to vote for them. Confederation closed the podium with 11.65%. The Left came in fourth (10.13%), followed closely by Andrzej Duda's non-existent party. If the president were to form one, 9.2% of those surveyed would cast their vote for the grouping. Just below them was Third Way with 8.59%.
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/kraj/news-partia-prezydenta-moglaby-wejsc-do-gry-polacy-zaskoczyli,nId,7778296

-- 63% IN CNN POLL BELIEVE TRUMP LOST THE DEBATE: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/09/11/politics/election-poll-trump-harris-debate/index.html

-- HARRIS TOOK ON THE ROLE OF A PROSECUTOR JUDGING CONVICTED TRUMP. BUT MANY AMERICANS MAY SEE THIS AS A SIGN OF CONTEMPT FOR THEIR OWN MISERY - JĘDRZEJ BIELECKI IN RZ:
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art41109281-jedrzej-bielecki-z-kogo-smieje-sie-kamala-harris

-- OTHERWISE, PUTIN WOULD ALREADY BE SITTING IN KYIV TODAY, WITH HIS EYES SET ON THE REST OF EUROPE. STARTING WITH POLAND - HARRIS SAID IN THE DEBATE:
https://www.onet.pl/informacje/onetwiadomosci/mocne-slowa-kamali-harris-do-donalda-trumpa-oddalbys-polske/qtpj14x,79cfc278

-- WHY DON'T YOU TURN TO AMERICANS OF POLISH DESCENT, HOW QUICKLY WOULD YOU HAND OVER POLAND FOR A FAVOR AND FOR SOMETHING YOU CONSIDER FRIENDSHIP WITH A DICTATOR - SAID KAMALA HARRIS:
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/raport-wybory-prezydenckie-usa-2024/news-goraca-debata-prezydencka-w-usa-kamala-harris-wspomniala-o-p,nId,7778336

-- BLINKEN IN KYIV WITH THE NEW HEAD OF BRITISH DIPLOMACY: https://oko.press/na-zywo/na-zywo-relacja/blinken-w-kijowie-rakiety-dalekiego-zasiegu

-- QUITE UNEXPECTEDLY ON TUESDAY, THE GOVERNMENT DID NOT ADOPT THE AMENDMENTS TO THE INDEXATION FOR 10 MILLION PENSIONERS - LESZEK KOSTRZEWSKI IN GW: “This was an announcement from the Civic Coalition's election campaign. The Left also pushed for changes. (...) It clearly results that the project was only "discussed," not accepted and sent to the Sejm. This is confirmed by the further part of the announcement: "The Council of Ministers will return to processing the project if there is a risk of exceeding 5% inflation. For now, however, the Ministry of Finance does not foresee such an increase. The mechanism for additional indexation has been developed, and further processing of the bill may be undertaken at any time if the need arises." - adds the government, assuring that for now everything will remain unchanged”.
https://wyborcza.biz/biznes/7,147880,31293333,co-dalej-ze-zmianami-podwyzek-dla-10-mln-emerytow-tusk-w-ostatniej.html

-- THE GOVERNMENT SURPRISED. THERE IS A STATEMENT REGARDING PENSIONS - WP HEADLINE.
https://www.money.pl/emerytury/wiadomosc-dla-milionow-emerytow-rzad-podjal-decyzje-7069544700402496a.html

-- ADAM STRZEMBOSZ TURNS 94 TODAY, AND SWIATŁANA CIECHANOUSKA TURNS 42.

-- GRABIEC: THE CONCEPT OF "FIGHTING DEMOCRACY" HAS BEEN PRESENT IN LEGAL DOCTRINE AT LEAST SINCE DENAZIFICATION - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2024/09/11/

-- THE SLOW AGONY OF THE EUROPEAN UNION? - JAROSŁAW KUISZ IN INTERIA: “While we argue about the words of Donald Tusk and Jarosław Kaczyński, "the slow agony" of the European Union has been announced in Brussels. Germany has introduced temporary controls on all land borders. At the same time, pressure is growing on the attacked Ukraine to end the costly war. (...) But it's irrelevant. In reality, no one learns from others' mistakes. And perhaps, unfortunately, some countries will be willing to undertake some kind of "ex-it" to rediscover the reasons why Europe was united decades ago.”
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-powolna-agonia-unii-europejskiej,nId,7778009

-- THE PRIME MINISTER HAS BACKED HIMSELF INTO A CORNER - JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: “If Jarosław Kaczyński returns to power, the head of Civic Platform may face a State Tribunal for withdrawing President Andrzej Duda's counter-signature on appointing a neo-judge as the head of the judges' assembly of the Civil Chamber of the Supreme Court. The Prime Minister has backed himself into a corner.”

-- THE PRIME MINISTER MADE ANOTHER MISTAKE. HE IS GOING TO WAR WITH THE PRESIDENT, DESPITE PROMISING COOPERATION - FURTHER NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: “The Prime Minister's decision did not affect Judge Krzysztof Wesołowski. However, it has set a new tone for public debate, in which Tusk is under fire. The Prime Minister has made another mistake. He is going to war with the president, despite having promised cooperation. The president has also not distinguished himself, dangerously fabricating about the cooperation of Polish services with Russian ones. The most important state representatives should cooperate; the good of the state requires it.”
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-polityczno-spoleczne/art41102881-jacek-nizinkiewicz-donald-tusk-popelnil-drugi-blad-i-dal-pis-grozna-bron-do-reki

-- THE PROCESS OF "SETTLING ACCOUNTS," ANNOUNCED BY TUSK, IS MEANT TO MOBILIZE HIS OWN ELECTORATE, NOT LEAD TO THE EROSION OF SUPPORT FOR PIS - MICHAŁ SZUŁDRZYŃSKI IN RZ: “PiS maintaining a steady level of over 30% may mean that Jarosław Kaczyński's supporters do not care about further scandals and affairs – be it with RARS, the Fund for Supporting the Justice System, or Orlen, etc. The entire process of "settling accounts," announced by Prime Minister Donald Tusk, is therefore meant to mobilize his own electorate, not lead to the erosion of support for PiS. However, this erosion is not occurring, which seems, despite everything, to be an extraordinary phenomenon.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art41103541-michal-szuldrzynski-najnowszy-sondaz-pis-tuz-za-po-przelom-przyniosa-wybory-prezydenckie

-- A BIG ROW AND MESS LOOMS - JOANNA SOLSKA ON POLITYKA WEEKLY PORTAL: “Unfortunately, there is another side to this coin: labor costs in companies employing people on mandate contracts will increase significantly. This particularly concerns small businesses, which most often use this form of employment. Consequently, employees will also receive less in their hands. The taxation of all types of contracts is to come into effect in a dozen or so weeks, as early as January 1, 2025. Business organizations are demanding the postponement of this deadline and correction of the regulations. A noble idea gives rise to a great threat: the desire to escape rising labor costs and a real drop in wages by moving into the grey economy of work without written contracts, without taxes and ZUS. And small companies, especially in services, have great opportunities in this regard.”

-- ONLY ONE THING IS CLEAR – WITH OUR HIGH ZUS CONTRIBUTIONS, THE INCREASE IN MANDATE LABOR COSTS WILL BE HUGE - FURTHER JOANNA SOLSKA: “We not only do not have answers to these questions yet, but no one has even publicly asked them. Only one thing is clear – with our high ZUS contributions, the increase in mandate labor costs will be huge. And the "junk contracts" will not disappear; they will move to the grey economy and become less visible.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/rynek/2269133,1,zanosi-sie-na-spora-awanture-i-balagan-w-kogo-najbardziej-uderzy-oskladkowanie-zlecen

-- BIRTHDAYS: Adam Strzembosz, Teresa Bochwic, Swiatlana Ciechanouska, Aleksandra Rybińska.