— FRIDAY'S POLITICAL AGENDA: US DEFENSE SECRETARY'S VISIT: MEETINGS WITH DUDU AND KOSINIAK-KAMYSZ, TRZASKOWSKI AT VANCE AND ZELENSKY'S LOCATION: AT THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE – 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/live/2025/02/14/

— AT THE START OF THE MUNICH SECURITY CONFERENCE, VANCE SHARPENS US STANCE ON RUSSIA: "US Vice President J.D. Vance threatens sanctions and military action to force Putin to reach an agreement with Ukraine and guarantee its independence. 'There are economic tools of pressure, there are, of course, military tools of pressure,' he said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. 'An agreement will be reached that will shock many people,' he announced."
https://businessinsider.com.pl/wiadomosci/zwrot-usa-w-sprawie-ukrainy-zaskakujace-slowa-vancea-o-akcji-militarnej/91flj1s

— VANCE DOES NOT RULE OUT US ARMY ON UKRAINIAN TERRITORY: "The US Vice President also stated that the possibility of sending American troops to Ukraine, 'if Moscow were not negotiating in good faith,' remains 'on the table.' 'There are economic tools of pressure, and of course, military tools that the US could use against Putin,' Vance emphasized. He added, 'there are many different configurations, but we want Ukraine to be sovereign.'
https://wiadomosci.gazeta.pl/wiadomosci/7,114881,31690907,j-d-vance-grozi-rosji-potencjalne-dzialania-militarne-ze.html

— NOT EVERYTHING IS PUBLICLY DISCUSSED. IN BOTH THESE MATTERS, IT IS NOT ABOUT NUMBERS BUT ABOUT DIALOGUE, BECAUSE THAT LEADS TO CONCRETE OUTCOMES – WRITES DARIUSZ MIODUSKI ON LINKEDIN: "It seems laughable to believe that the prime minister of a large country meets with the head of a technology giant solely to announce a plan for AI training worth a few million USD. Not everything is discussed publicly. In both these matters, it is not about numbers, but about dialogue, because that leads to concrete outcomes."

— A NEW OPENING IN RELATIONS WITH BUSINESS AND AN INVITATION TO SHARE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ECONOMIC MATTERS – MIODUSKI CONTINUES ON LINKEDIN: "The most important thing is that the authorities have finally started talking with those who form the lifeblood of the economy – entrepreneurs. Listening to the prime minister's words at the Warsaw Stock Exchange, I perceived them as a new opening in relations with business and an invitation to share responsibility for economic matters. This was also echoed in later backstage conversations. And rightly so, because governments around the world do this."

— TODAY, EVERYTHING CAN BE RIDICULED, CRITICIZED, TURNED INTO A MEME. HOWEVER, LET US LEAVE POLITICS ASIDE, BECAUSE THIS IS ABOUT A REAL CHANCE FOR ACTION – MIODUSKI AGAIN: "Today, everything can be ridiculed, criticized, turned into a meme. However, let us leave politics aside, because this is about a real chance for actions that will unleash the potential of Polish companies. In his speech, the prime minister spoke about investments, dialogue, and a breakthrough. From the business side, he can count on credit. A credit of trust. And if the declaration of willingness to dialogue turns into real cooperation and solutions, then we can talk about a true breakthrough."
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7295833355823058947/

— CEZARY KAŹMIERCZAK OF ZPP SPEAKS OF A BREAKTHROUGH: "Cezary Kaźmierczak, president of the Union of Entrepreneurs and Employers, considers the government's stance a significant change. 'First and foremost, we heard a declaration of ongoing contacts and discussions with us. This is giant progress, a Copernican breakthrough even, considering the circumstances where the debate between politics and business practically did not exist,' Kaźmierczak points out."
https://www.money.pl/gospodarka/o-tym-nie-bylo-mowy-biznes-ocenia-wizje-tuska-i-mowi-czego-zabraklo-w-jego-planie-7123763766049568a.html

— THE CHOICE IS AS FOLLOWS: EITHER DEREGULATION OR TRUMPIFICATION – KRZYSZTOF ADAM KOWALCZYK IN RZ: "Perhaps Donald Tusk, who himself comes from KLD, a cradle of liberal economic ideas, has finally understood that a reaction to the sharp regulatory shift, also in Poland, will lead to the 'Trumpification' of politics, threatening to hand over power to extremist groups. Better late than never. Let's hope he perseveres. Because an economy shackled by excessive regulations is like an athlete with tied legs. They won't run fast."
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-ekonomiczne/art41805941-krzysztof-adam-kowalczyk-przerazajace-slowo-deregulacja

— ZIOBRO'S CALENDAR CONFIRMS MRAZ'S CREDIBILITY. INVESTIGATORS FOUND NOTES ABOUT SECRET MEETINGS IN JERUZAL – WOJCIECH CZUCHNOWSKI IN GW: "In Zbigniew Ziobro's home, ABW found a calendar of meetings of the former Minister of Justice during his eight years in power. It contains notes about secret meetings in Jeruzal, where Ziobro owns a house. The calendar, kept in electronic form, is important evidence in the case of abuses within the Justice Fund. It was in this calendar that Zbigniew Ziobro recorded a meeting that took place on August 13, 2020. Seven people attended it. They determined a list of websites that were to receive multi-million dollar grants from the Fund in exchange for promoting politicians from Ziobro's party: Dariusz Matecki, Marcin Romanowski, Jan Kanthak, and Marcin Sławecki."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31689166,kalendarz-ziobry-potwierdza-wiarygodnosc-mraza-sledczy-znalezli.html

— POLITICAL CIRCLES ARE BUZZING WITH STORIES ABOUT TROUBLE THAT THE TESTIFYING BUSINESSMAN PAWEŁ SZOPA COULD BRING UPON THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER'S TEAM – AGATA KONDZIŃSKA AND IWONA SZPALA IN GW: "Political circles are buzzing with stories about the trouble that businessman Paweł Szopa, who is testifying in an investigation, could bring upon the former prime minister's team. It was he who secured the lucrative contract for the supply of power generators to the Government Strategic Reserves Agency. Szopa is telling prosecutors how officials were bribed. That 3.5 million PLN was allegedly taken by the former head of Prime Minister Morawiecki's office. An official from the Prime Minister's Chancellery already faces prosecutorial charges. And then there's Michał Kuczmierowski, the former head of RARS, another man of Morawiecki, who spent months in British custody and is now awaiting an extradition hearing on bail."
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,31689232,watek-rozliczen-wchodzi-w-kampanie-pis-tylko-cementuja-partie.html

— LATELY, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL SUCH SITUATIONS WHERE HE WAS NOT EVEN PRESENT AT THE MOST IMPORTANT MEETINGS – SAY PiS POLITICIANS, WHOM WE ASK ABOUT HOW THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER'S COOPERATION WITH THE REST OF THE PARTY IS GOING – DOMINIKA DŁUGOSZ IN NEWSWEEK: "He did manage to secure the position of head of the European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR), but for Warsaw PiS politicians, this means absolutely nothing. Money is in Brussels, and political significance is built at Nowogrodzka Street. Morawiecki is seen there less and less often. 'Lately, there have been several situations where he was not even present at the most important meetings,' say PiS politicians whom we ask about how the former prime minister's cooperation with the rest of the party is going. 'He now has a faction in exile, and one that is falling apart.'"

— SEVERAL OF OUR INTERLOCUTORS SAY DIRECTLY THAT THE FORMER PRIME MINISTER IS BEING MARGINALIZED FROM MAKING THE MOST IMPORTANT DECISIONS FOR THE PARTY AND FROM THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DISCUSSIONS – DŁUGOSZ CONTINUES IN NEWSWEEK: "Several of our interlocutors say directly that the former prime minister is being marginalized from making the most important decisions for the party and from the most significant discussions. Apparently, although he attends almost every meeting of the party's political committee presidium, as he is, after all, its vice-chairman, recently meetings have also been held in a smaller group."

— MORAWIECKI IS PROMOTING HIMSELF, NOT THE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE – DŁUGOSZ CONTINUES: "Morawiecki is well aware that the longer and louder it is heard in the party that he is a burden to the campaign, the worse it will be for him, because in the next election everyone will think twice before putting him in the front ranks. Therefore, he is conducting his own campaign on his own account. He travels around Poland with his people and his own agenda. In the last three days, he has been promoting himself on his X profile on average every two hours. During the same time, he has only retweeted posts from the presidential candidate twice."
https://www.newsweek.pl/polska/polityka/kto-z-kim-w-pis-frakcja-na-uchodzstwie-i-to-w-dodatku-w-rozpadzie/kh7zdtl

— NAWROCKI AND MENTZEN HAVE FOUND THEMSELVES IN AN UNCOMFORTABLE POSITION BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOST THEIR MONOPOLY ON DEALING WITH BROADLY DEFINED SECURITY – PRZEMYSŁAW SZUBARTOWICZ IN INTERIA: "Trzaskowski has undertaken a risky game with the electorate traditionally attributed to him, whose political development has stalled at the stage of a niche struggle over personal pronouns in everyday and official speech. He is also playing a game with Karol Nawrocki and Sławomir Mentzen, who, while finding themselves in an uncomfortable position because they have lost their monopoly on dealing with broadly defined security, have not yet had their last say in this campaign. Perhaps this is a somewhat delayed reaction to the political 'revolution of common sense' sweeping the world, but one cannot fail to notice that if the liberal mainstream had realized its own mistakes in time, the 'disenchanted democrat' Elon Musk would not be building a dangerous oligarchy today."
https://wydarzenia.interia.pl/felietony/news-ucieczka-do-centrum,nId,7908986

— BIRTHDAYS: Luiza Zalewska-Karłowska, Grzegorz Schreiber, Jacek Cholewiński, Aleksander Bentkowski, Bożenna Bukiewicz.