Life / In Poland everyone is everyone else's doctor? [33]


Given that there are no peasants in Poland, how could you possibly have observed this?

History / Age of Enlightenment in Poland? [80]


It already exists.

5 years in Poland and you didn't know about it?

History / Frederick the Great governments from Poland's perspective [24]

So, to bring it back on topic...

Can anyone provide an example of what should be brought from Germany to Poland as an example of "success".

Let's remember that the West German economic miracle was the result of American cash, so that cannot be used. What else do they do that Poland should adopt?

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

You linked it, not me.

But for kicks...

Poland : 23,650
Hungary : 23,480
Latvia : 22,560

/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states_in_Europe_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita

Next excuse?

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


First rule of internet debates : don't link to materials which contradict the point that you're trying to make.

Poland : 23,275
Latvia : 21,381
Hungary : 13,881

Poor show, poor show.

What's your agenda?

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Yes, absolutely agreed. Poland is starting to really punch hard in Europe - it's the 6th largest economy in Europe, for instance. Poland is already ahead of most of the former East Germany, and economically, Poland should continue to grow faster than Germany for many years to come.

Poland's growth in smaller cities has also been incredible. Places such as Rzeszów were considered backwaters even 10 years ago - these days, they're anything but.

News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]


You're welcome to your German worship, but I'm reminded of the disaster that is Berlin-Brandenburg International, the Hamburg concert hall, the new ECB building, the Stuttgart 21...the list is endless.

spiegel.de/international/business/disastrous-public-works-projects-in-germany-a-876856.html

Germany in recent years has been an example of shocking incompetence compared to Poland. I'm not really sure who would want to be like them right now.

Given Polish successes in the last 10 years, one would rather say that Germany should be more like Poland.

History / Heresy of Germanization and/or Anglicanization - The genesis; Polish, Slavic opinion [14]


What can they teach us, apart from how to lose two world wars in the space of 25 years? Perhaps they could teach us how to have our capital under occupation for 46 years?

Anyway, Germany already became rather Polonised, particularly in the Ruhr.

Life / Catholic idol worship in Poland [29]


They're all over the place in Austria and Croatia too.

Marian shrines are common in tunnels in Austria too.

Get back to Poland in this thread please


Sure ;)

Can't say I've ever seen many people praying to shrines at the side of the road. They do exist, like in all Catholic countries, but that doesn't mean people actually pray near them. I've never seen a soul leave any "sacrifices" there, as it would be completely contradictory to the idea of what the shrine is about.

History / Frederick the Great governments from Poland's perspective [24]


The autobahns are falling to bits. Many of the older concrete ones have 80km/h limits imposed this summer, particularly in the south. Other ones are in a dreadful condition, and the network is under-maintained to the tune of around 1 billion Euro/yearly.

Meanwhile, Poland's autostrady are doing just fine this summer.

Seems to me that Germany would rather have Poland's autostrady.

Work / New business start-up in Poland - opinions and ideas [32]


No, not in the beginning. The beginning only requires around 420zl (or something) a month. Tax is very low on the self employed as there are very generous deductions, but he cannot become self employed as a non-EU citizen.


Blimey, that's not normal at all.

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]


That definition simply doesn't work in a linguistics sense. There are plenty of Poles with accents that are almost indistinguishable from someone from America or England, so what about them? They aren't 'native speakers', yet they function as one.

Can you provide a test that would manage to differentiate between a person brought up in Poland vs someone brought up in the USA? There are also plenty of people born and brought up in the UK that retain the accents of their immigrant parents - are they native speakers?

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

So - why doesn't Duda introduce legislation providing for tax cuts for normal families? Let's be realistic - the country could probably afford to provide a 200zl/month tax rebate now. Or perhaps make creche and nursery fees tax-deductible? That would also work.

Handing out physical cash rarely works well, as you've seen in the United States.

Remember, all the PiS promises are based upon increased tax collection. If you can't get 50 billion through VAT, then you can get 50 billion through VAT on education, fuel taxes, cadestral taxes, extra pension taxes and much much more.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Exactly, it's all political strategy. Blaming Kopacz for not cooperating is just usual PiS nonsense where they blame PO for absolutely everything.

For what it's worth, anyone that voted for Duda believing that he would give them 500zl/month needs to have their head examined.


Socialism, Polonius, Socialism...

Anyway, many PO voters from 2007 and 2011 absolutely do not want payments in hard cash to poor parents, because they know that the pathology will start to breed just to get an extra 500zl a month.

If Duda introduced legislation that provided for a 500zl/month tax cut per child, it would probably gain significant support among all parties as it wouldn't reward pathology.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Hahahaha, oh Polly...

What actually happened was that Duda abandoned his election pledge to give 500zl/month to poor families with kids. He did so, claiming that the "government doesn't want to cooperate" - but they never pledged to give the money. This was a Duda policy, conceived without the support of the Government. Now he won't even introduce the legislation to the Sejm for it to be rejected, so it's hard to see how the Government won't work with him if he won't even introduce the legislation in question. By the way, the normal procedure is for the Sejm to introduce legislation and for the President to work with the Government on their policies, not the other way round.

In short, he's already breaking promises to his electorate. He knows fine well that a debate in the Sejm would result in a clear majority against it, so he obviously wants to avoid getting defeated in the Sejm already.

If he genuinely wants to work with Kopacz, then he should have sat down with her quietly and asked about the potential of preparing a bill on the matter. PO might well have agreed to some limited financial help, but he didn't even try.

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]

For instance - nativespeaker.com.pl

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]

It's worth pointing out that most companies will expect you to provide an invoice.

Work / New business start-up in Poland - opinions and ideas [32]

English speaking private school, yes. But there are many relatively inexpensive private schools that are Polish.

Food / SURVEY OF THE POLISH CONSUMERS' CONSUMPTION HABITS OF CAFÉS [28]

There are no "premium" cafe brands. There are expensive cafes, sure, but no chains apart from the medicore Starbucks and others. Also, the cafe culture isn't all over Poland. Wrocław for instance has a very, very poor cafe culture compared to Poznań, while it's almost non-existent in Szczecin.


Depends on the cafe and the city. There are no rules, due to the lack of a common cafe culture. This isn't the Balkans, Vienna or L'viv.

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]


That's a pretty poor definition, because you're ignoring a huge amount of native speakers of English in the process. Most native speakers of English would be rather offended to hear that only British accents qualify.


Not really. Genuine native speakers - what is it? Is someone from sarf London really a native speaker?

As I said, the whole idea of a "native speaker" is under huge question now, and many prominent linguists (such as David Crystal) have thoroughly mocked the idea of it.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]


Michnik never tries to claim that he's from a good Polish Catholic family, does he? Nor did his parents suddenly "find God" when the system changed, did they?

As for Duda, he's also a huge hypocrite. Claims to be a very devout Catholic, yet only has one child. How strange.

Law / Tunisian man got married with a Polish girl. How to get a temporary residence in Poland? [29]

Actually, UK law has a minimum income expectation, so if it's not using his EEA Treaty rights, then he is required to get a visa.

BTW - it can be refused if the non-EU family member represents a threat.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

So if he's entitled to it, why has Duda said already that he won't introduce a bill to the Sejm regarding giving people 500zl for children (or whatever the number was?).

Backtracking already on his electoral promises, tut tut.

For what it's worth, all executive power should be stripped from the President. Then we simply wouldn't be having these debates.

Law / Tunisian man got married with a Polish girl. How to get a temporary residence in Poland? [29]

Yes, if they turned up illegally or did something wrong, they cannot expect to be treated the same way. I know in practice, Poland tends to issue a "tolerated stay permit" to those that entered illegally and now have families - but it cannot be relied on at all, like you say.

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]

Worth pointing out that there are some people on here that are very well connected in Warsaw (InPolska being one of them...) and that being rude to them isn't always the best idea, especially as there can't be many Ukrainian teachers of English in Warsaw with an impressive teaching history in one of the biggest schools in town.

Law / Tunisian man got married with a Polish girl. How to get a temporary residence in Poland? [29]

There's something very wrong with that, because EU law respects the right of the family. There's been several cases on the matter - the most well known is the Chen case - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_v_Home_Secretary

Could be that they're being expelled from France for other reasons, such as having committed criminal acts.

Work / Salary Expectation for HCL Senior JAVA Developer with 4 years experience in Poland [66]

It's normal. For some reason, Ukraine has higher salaries in IT than Poland.

But what's so wrong with working in Kyiv or L'viv?

Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]

Only my two cents...

I'm not convinced that being a "great speaker" is so important. Knowledge of teaching methodologies, personal relations with the clients and so on are important, but being a "great speaker" only really comes into play at the C2/IELTS 8+ level. Most students aren't anywhere near that level, so in this case, it's pretty much irrelevant.

As for "native standard" - current best practice is to avoid using such terminology. It's meaningless and cannot be critically assessed.

News / Children in Poland taken away from parents by government and given to western countries for adoption [3]


Sure you did.

The PiS supporters really are crawling out under their rocks recently, aren't they?


No, it's not happening. Poland has a very strict adoption process, and no amount of money can change that. In fact, the law is so strict that it's very difficult for a non-Polish speaking parent to adopt.

News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]

Fortunately, PO are going nowhere.


Bwhahaha. Duda is about as establishment as it comes - he comes from a nomeklatura family, he's a lawyer, worked in the university through personal connections - the guy just screams "establishment". Duda has barely worked a real day in his life - everything he's done has been through political patronage.


Duda, free market? The man signed an agreement with Solidarność obliging him to all sorts of things - would you like to read it?

currenteventspoland.com/news/solidarnosc-endorses-andrzej-duda-from-pis-for-president-of-poland.html

Free market, hahahaha - the man is enslaved to the trade unions.

Do try harder.

Remember, PO are the future of Poland. The only future.