Today's State of Play

STATE OF PLAY: Kraków – The Capital of Layoffs, Danielewski: Petru Isn't Doomed to Failure, Gardulska in GW: The Prime Minister Misspoke, Calling Science Poland's Opportunity

-- 16TH ANNIVERSARY OF MAREK EDELMAN'S DEATH.
https://www.centrumdialogu.com/dzien-marka-edelmana

-- HE ONCE TOLD ME: YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO BE AFRAID ALL DAY, BUT TO KNOW THAT A DROP OF HAPPINESS AWAITED YOU AT NIGHT – a director of a documentary about his life recalled one of the leaders of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, a prominent cardiologist, and an opposition activist, speaking on Polish Radio.
https://www.polskieradio.pl/8/2222/Artykul/2375881,Jolanta-Dylewska-Marek-Edelman-podkreslal-znaczenie-milosci-w-getcie

-- POLITICAL AGENDA FOR THURSDAY: TUSK AT THE EPP SUMMIT, WARSAW CITY COUNCIL ON NIGHT-TIME ALCOHOL PROHIBITION IN TWO DISTRICTS - 300LIVEhttps://300polityka.pl/pl/live

-- KRAKÓW IS THE CAPITAL OF LAYOFFS, YET IT WAS MEANT TO BE A BUSINESS CENTER. "LIKE LODZ IN THE 90s" - MILENA KUCHNIA IN GW: “The atmosphere in the company is very tense. There are still no official personnel decisions, everyone is waiting,” a worker from one of the two Kraków corporations, where group layoffs are expected soon, tells us. Last year, Kraków saw the largest group layoffs in Poland. This year, that record was broken already in July.”

-- HEINEKEN'S FINANCES FROM KRAKÓW TO INDIA - FURTHER IN GW: “We managed to speak with one of Heineken's employees. As he says, the atmosphere within the company is very tense, and employees are currently lost in speculation. – The entire finance hub is to be moved to India. Apparently, the exact number of employees or the order in which they will be laid off has not yet been determined. We were told that specifics will be available in two to three months,” he says.”
https://krakow.wyborcza.pl/krakow/7,44425,32277088,mialo-byc-centrum-biznesu-sa-masowe-zwolnienia-nawet-800-osob.html

-- THE PRIME MINISTER SEEMS TO HAVE MISPOKEN. EVERYTHING HAS RETURNED TO NORMAL IN POLISH SCIENCE - ALICJA GARDULSKA IN GW: “Today, the announcements made by the Prime Minister and the Minister of Finance at the beginning of the year, stating that science would be one of the pillars of the country's economic development, sound like a slip of the tongue. Everything has returned to the norm, where everyone knows the diagnosis and the prescriptions, but little changes. (...) Last year, researchers sounded the alarm that Polish science was sinking. And although it sounded alarming, it had a certain fighting spirit. Today, they speak of endurance, stagnation, drifting. They are starting the new academic year in rather dismal spirits.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32293130,premier-sie-chyba-przejezyczyl-w-polskiej-nauce-wszystko-wrocilo.html

-- PROBLEMS WITHIN POLSKA 2050 COULD HARM THE ENTIRE COALITION - AGATA KONDZIŃSKA AND IWONA SZPALA IN GW: “Public disputes discourage the democratic electorate and also give the opposition a pretext, which exploits the divisions within the government, building a narrative that ministers are only arguing and not working. Our sources report that Pełczyńska-Nałęcz has clashed with the Prime Minister more than once at government meetings.  

-- TUSK AND SIKORSKI SHOWED HOŁOWNIA A LIST OF POTENTIAL OPPORTUNITIES EVEN IN THE SUMMER, HE CHOSE THE UN – SAYS A GOVERNMENT POLITICIAN - FURTHER IN GW: “For several days now, Polska 2050 has been the focus of commentary. Sejm Marshal Szymon Hołownia is looking for a job outside Poland. And as 'Wyborcza' has learned, he announced his international ambitions to the head of government back in the summer. – Tusk and Sikorski showed him a list of potential opportunities then, and he chose the UN – says a politician from the government.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32293128,co-po-holowni-kto-pokieruje-polska-2050.html

-- KAROL NAWROCKI FROM PIS IS SKILLFULLY EXPLOITING TENSIONS WITHIN THE GOVERNMENT COALITION, WHICH HAS INCREASINGLY SMALL CHANCES OF SURVIVING UNTIL THE 2027 ELECTIONS - JACEK NIZINKIEWICZ IN RZ: “Prime Minister Donald Tusk will either reach an agreement with Pełczyńska-Nałęcz, or he will have a new external opposition and will miss Szymon Hołownia. PiS, Konfederacja, and Karol Nawrocki are counting on the internal disputes within the governing coalition to weaken it and reduce support for Donald Tusk's government, which is already not high.”
https://www.rp.pl/polityka/art43109111-koalicja-rzadowa-wisi-na-polsce-2050-donald-tusk-ma-problem-dlaczego-szymon-holownia-odchodzi

-- PETRU WANTS TO BE THE HEAD OF POLSKA 2050, EVERYONE IS LAUGHING. BUT IT COULD MAKE SENSE - MICHAŁ DANIELEWSKI ON TYGODNIK POLITYKA'S PORTAL: “Polska 2050 in Ryszard Petru's version would be a straightforward continuation of the old Nowoczesna, but that doesn't mean such a project would be doomed to failure today. Quite the contrary. (...) And the answer to this unease [taxes, deficit, handouts] could be precisely Polska 2050 in the style of Ryszard Petru. Because a party balancing on the electoral threshold can say what a party with over 30% support cannot. The more radical, the better.”
https://www.polityka.pl/tygodnikpolityka/kraj/2316949,1,od-mema-do-lidera-petru-chce-byc-szefem-polski-2050-wszyscy-sie-smieja-ale-to-moze-miec-sens

-- NOWA LEWICA IS TEMPTING, BUT PARTIA RAZEM IS CLOSING RANKS AND WANTS TO RUN INDEPENDENTLY - TOMASZ NYCZKA IN GW: “– Razem has no such plans. We do not intend to go into parliamentary elections on one list with Nowa Lewica – says Mateusz Merta, spokesperson for Razem. He explains: – Our approaches to the program differ. We feel that Nowa Lewica in government is not implementing the promises we agreed upon when we ran on a single list in the parliamentary elections in 2023. Minister Marcin Kulasek himself admitted that the government has failed regarding science funding.”
https://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,32290250,nowa-lewica-kusi-ale-partia-razem-zwiera-szeregi-i-chce-samodzielnie.html

-- 28 YEARS AGO, TVN TELEVISION LAUNCHED.

-- BIRTHDAYS: Marcin Horała, Ludwik Rakowski.