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4 Feb 2018
History / Lusatian-Sarmatic obsession of Poles [153]
Sobieski died a few years ago Ktos. Unlike you he is missed around here.
Sobieski died a few years ago Ktos. Unlike you he is missed around here.
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3 Feb 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]
Why ? - i happliy deal with Israelis the same as i would with a Czech or a Canadian. You think people are supposed to sever business contacts just because of some poorly drafted politicians nonsense cooked up in the middle of the night to keep the mohers distracted ?
Why ? - i happliy deal with Israelis the same as i would with a Czech or a Canadian. You think people are supposed to sever business contacts just because of some poorly drafted politicians nonsense cooked up in the middle of the night to keep the mohers distracted ?
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1 Feb 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]
No it is not clear - any crime committed would probably be by a non polish speaker and then you would have to explain what Jarod means. If all the Poles in a certain village locked up all the Jews in that village in a barn and waited for the Nazis to collect them does that count as an action by the narod ?
I don't have strong feelings about Poles or Jews but like Maf I think this law is extremely poorly conceived - it does not effectively solve any problems but it does create new ones.
No it is not clear - any crime committed would probably be by a non polish speaker and then you would have to explain what Jarod means. If all the Poles in a certain village locked up all the Jews in that village in a barn and waited for the Nazis to collect them does that count as an action by the narod ?
I don't have strong feelings about Poles or Jews but like Maf I think this law is extremely poorly conceived - it does not effectively solve any problems but it does create new ones.
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1 Feb 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]
It's not a state but it might be a nation. Didn't the law define nation ?
Is it worth upsetting the US for this nonsense ? Total waste of everyone's time and now cash while they close streets etc.
It's not a state but it might be a nation. Didn't the law define nation ?
Is it worth upsetting the US for this nonsense ? Total waste of everyone's time and now cash while they close streets etc.
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1 Feb 2018
News / Israel opposing potential new Polish law to criminalise term 'Polish death camps' [1538]
Not sure what is to be gained by this unenforceable law - seems to me that PS were deliberately trying to provoke a culture war but didn't think the US would get involved.
But my main issue is that given it has become so sensitive why is it discussed in the middle of the night ? People rarely do their most thoughtful and error free work at 1.30
Not sure what is to be gained by this unenforceable law - seems to me that PS were deliberately trying to provoke a culture war but didn't think the US would get involved.
But my main issue is that given it has become so sensitive why is it discussed in the middle of the night ? People rarely do their most thoughtful and error free work at 1.30
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30 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
I think 19 percent is a fair rate - more of an issue is how it is spent.
The Hungarian consumer has no choice but to pay the VAT that they had to introduce to fund the corporate tax cuts.
They needed those tax cuts to maintain investment after investors got spooked by Orban forcibly nationalising banks and targeting other foreign investors.
I think 19 percent is a fair rate - more of an issue is how it is spent.
The Hungarian consumer has no choice but to pay the VAT that they had to introduce to fund the corporate tax cuts.
They needed those tax cuts to maintain investment after investors got spooked by Orban forcibly nationalising banks and targeting other foreign investors.
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29 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
So come to Warsaw and try and do a big deal in zloty or dollars - over a certain level here then business works in Euro.
So come to Warsaw and try and do a big deal in zloty or dollars - over a certain level here then business works in Euro.
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29 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
The Euro is not stagnant - it has gained strongly against the pound since Brexit and the dollar since Trumps election. You can see money talking about where people think will be a safe investment.
EU funds might only be 3% of GDP, but they are closer to 20% of investment and in peak years it was over 30 %. That is very important since investment multiplies. This is stuff from literally week 1 of an economics course.
In fact without this investment, the amount of capital expenditure by Polish owned businesses is one of the lowest in the developed world - Partly because of the Audi syndrome, where successful people first buy flash cars and houses rather than re-investing in the business.
Polish exports to the EU are 30 percent of GDP - a figure that has doubled since the 90s and which would probably halve if there was a Polish exit.
Reimittances from Poles working abroad are another 1.5 percent of GDP and much of it goes into houses and domestic infrastructure (new rooves, plumbing, new furniture)
Finally millions of Poles are employed by EU companies in Poland - often receiving valuable training and certainly without that the pool of management talent in Poland wold be very thin - the education system here is good technically but awful for soft skills.
These are the facts that should be widely disseminated, not some economically illiterate twaddle about its only 3 percent. And if the price of all of that is that you might have to take in a couple of thousand migrants is that really so onerous ?
Can we here from a Pole in Poland about whether the EU is beneficial, rather than words shouted across the table of the Red Apple buffet after a dodgy bottle of Krupnik ?
The Euro is not stagnant - it has gained strongly against the pound since Brexit and the dollar since Trumps election. You can see money talking about where people think will be a safe investment.
EU funds might only be 3% of GDP, but they are closer to 20% of investment and in peak years it was over 30 %. That is very important since investment multiplies. This is stuff from literally week 1 of an economics course.
In fact without this investment, the amount of capital expenditure by Polish owned businesses is one of the lowest in the developed world - Partly because of the Audi syndrome, where successful people first buy flash cars and houses rather than re-investing in the business.
Polish exports to the EU are 30 percent of GDP - a figure that has doubled since the 90s and which would probably halve if there was a Polish exit.
Reimittances from Poles working abroad are another 1.5 percent of GDP and much of it goes into houses and domestic infrastructure (new rooves, plumbing, new furniture)
Finally millions of Poles are employed by EU companies in Poland - often receiving valuable training and certainly without that the pool of management talent in Poland wold be very thin - the education system here is good technically but awful for soft skills.
These are the facts that should be widely disseminated, not some economically illiterate twaddle about its only 3 percent. And if the price of all of that is that you might have to take in a couple of thousand migrants is that really so onerous ?
Can we here from a Pole in Poland about whether the EU is beneficial, rather than words shouted across the table of the Red Apple buffet after a dodgy bottle of Krupnik ?
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28 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
Right - but what was in it for Austria, Sweden, Belgium or any of the other 10 net payers ? Nothing to do with wanting a buffer but everything to do with wanting a stable and prosperous democracy that they can trade with and wouldn't go up in flames like Bosnia
Right - but what was in it for Austria, Sweden, Belgium or any of the other 10 net payers ? Nothing to do with wanting a buffer but everything to do with wanting a stable and prosperous democracy that they can trade with and wouldn't go up in flames like Bosnia
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28 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
Poland's minimum wage only crossed 1000 zloty in 2006. So plenty of people were working for less than 50 zloty a day. Unemployment was nearly 20 percent so you could employ people for peanuts. Many employers did not even want to spend that 1000 and there was a thriving grey labor market. It was not "a bit poorer" than Germany, it was many degrees poorer. You would not know any of that because you were probably at school in Chicago.
Without a doubt inward investment revolutionised the labor market here and made local employers both raise their wages and behave themselves fairly.
Poland's minimum wage only crossed 1000 zloty in 2006. So plenty of people were working for less than 50 zloty a day. Unemployment was nearly 20 percent so you could employ people for peanuts. Many employers did not even want to spend that 1000 and there was a thriving grey labor market. It was not "a bit poorer" than Germany, it was many degrees poorer. You would not know any of that because you were probably at school in Chicago.
Without a doubt inward investment revolutionised the labor market here and made local employers both raise their wages and behave themselves fairly.
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28 Jan 2018
Genealogy / Polish & Prussian/German town name cross-reference. [100]
Could be Slocin in Wielkopolskie - German name Vorwalden which would be pronounced as though the V were an F. But there are probably other places with the same name in present day Germany (it means "before the forests").
Could be Slocin in Wielkopolskie - German name Vorwalden which would be pronounced as though the V were an F. But there are probably other places with the same name in present day Germany (it means "before the forests").
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28 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
Yeah great - Farage has run away and is working on a radio show, his party has all but collapsed and his Brexit is costing his voters thousands of pounds already. Not that he cares about them - in this video he mocks small time bank clerks but those are precisely the sort of hard working people that he managed to con.
Yeah great - Farage has run away and is working on a radio show, his party has all but collapsed and his Brexit is costing his voters thousands of pounds already. Not that he cares about them - in this video he mocks small time bank clerks but those are precisely the sort of hard working people that he managed to con.
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28 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
@TheOther
It is obviously the case that the trade benefits and the subsequent increase in opportunities for Polish business, employment, tax base, economic stability are far greater than the actual amount of the cash recieved.
Sadly that is not obvious to people who see this as a zero sum game and advocate leaving as soon as the EU stops handing us money. None of those posters here were in Poland pre 2004 and have an idea of what it was like in those days. They should watch some of the reruns of M Jak Milosc that TVP is running at breakfast time - see what people wore, drove and ate before the EU and what their houses and streets looked like,.its the best advert for the EU on TV.
The same story in Britain - I read a series of interviews with leavers this weekend and the uneducated ones they still cite the UKs cash contribution as a big reason for leaving, even though Brexit is already costing them 3x the amount of the cash contributed.
But it's difficult to make that case when levels of education are low and attention spans even lower.
@TheOther
It is obviously the case that the trade benefits and the subsequent increase in opportunities for Polish business, employment, tax base, economic stability are far greater than the actual amount of the cash recieved.
Sadly that is not obvious to people who see this as a zero sum game and advocate leaving as soon as the EU stops handing us money. None of those posters here were in Poland pre 2004 and have an idea of what it was like in those days. They should watch some of the reruns of M Jak Milosc that TVP is running at breakfast time - see what people wore, drove and ate before the EU and what their houses and streets looked like,.its the best advert for the EU on TV.
The same story in Britain - I read a series of interviews with leavers this weekend and the uneducated ones they still cite the UKs cash contribution as a big reason for leaving, even though Brexit is already costing them 3x the amount of the cash contributed.
But it's difficult to make that case when levels of education are low and attention spans even lower.
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13 Jan 2018
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]
Since you mock "retards" in every post I dont think you are in a position to lecture about empathy for the disabled.
Since you mock "retards" in every post I dont think you are in a position to lecture about empathy for the disabled.
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13 Jan 2018
News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2986]
Kaczynski has no family of his own and thus zero empathy for these situations.
Kaczynski has no family of his own and thus zero empathy for these situations.
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10 Jan 2018
Work / Business ideas for Poland [63]
The average Pole spends 100 zloty a month on clothes or shoes - im not sure you could even get a pair of socks for that price in Armani.
The number of high earners outside Warsaw is not enough to sustain designer shops yet - people who have that kind of wealth are not flainting it either at the moment
The average Pole spends 100 zloty a month on clothes or shoes - im not sure you could even get a pair of socks for that price in Armani.
The number of high earners outside Warsaw is not enough to sustain designer shops yet - people who have that kind of wealth are not flainting it either at the moment
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10 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
She was not pardoned because she was never convicted of anything. comey closed the investigation.
Why do you keep turning this back to Hillary Clinton ? she is not in office and most Poles dont care either way about her. If shes guily then lock her up.
What we do care about is our most important ally being run by a man with the attention span of a 5 year old.
She was not pardoned because she was never convicted of anything. comey closed the investigation.
Why do you keep turning this back to Hillary Clinton ? she is not in office and most Poles dont care either way about her. If shes guily then lock her up.
What we do care about is our most important ally being run by a man with the attention span of a 5 year old.
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9 Jan 2018
News / Poland in the European Union. Polexit? [559]
Clinton is yesterday's news. Put her on trial and lock her up if shes guilty.
But Trump is the person in the post now. Obviously he is mentally unstable- question is whether he is also a crook or merely a dupe of Putin ?
Clinton is yesterday's news. Put her on trial and lock her up if shes guilty.
But Trump is the person in the post now. Obviously he is mentally unstable- question is whether he is also a crook or merely a dupe of Putin ?
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8 Jan 2018
Life / So I found out the guy I was prepping myself to fight in Warsaw [19]
You didnt pay to get in ? Thats probably why he got upset. Anyway good luck fighting them - I've been there before and they do not look people I would take on.
Next time go to the bathroom in Luzztro next door - its only 10 zloty to get in, open all night and a favorite place for Legia fans to let their hair down.
You didnt pay to get in ? Thats probably why he got upset. Anyway good luck fighting them - I've been there before and they do not look people I would take on.
Next time go to the bathroom in Luzztro next door - its only 10 zloty to get in, open all night and a favorite place for Legia fans to let their hair down.
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5 Jan 2018
News / Americans incite hatred towards Russia in Polish media [75]
Maybe tell us what there is to admire in Russia today and why we are wrong ? I don't mean Turgenev or Anna Pavlova but rather good things about Russia right now.
Maybe tell us what there is to admire in Russia today and why we are wrong ? I don't mean Turgenev or Anna Pavlova but rather good things about Russia right now.
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4 Jan 2018
Work / English speaking Tax accountant in Warsaw [6]
There are plenty of small private accountants so just google ones near your apartment . You would struggle to find anyone for less than 250 in central Warsaw. Add in the requirement for English and the 400;is probably right.700 is probably a rate given by someone who is already busy and only wants clients who pay well. If they get to know you are an easy client and pay on time they will probably drop the cost a bit after a year or so.
You don't need to hire an accountant - you could do it yourself. If you think professionals are expensive then try amateurs.
There are plenty of small private accountants so just google ones near your apartment . You would struggle to find anyone for less than 250 in central Warsaw. Add in the requirement for English and the 400;is probably right.700 is probably a rate given by someone who is already busy and only wants clients who pay well. If they get to know you are an easy client and pay on time they will probably drop the cost a bit after a year or so.
You don't need to hire an accountant - you could do it yourself. If you think professionals are expensive then try amateurs.
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23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
It does affect the EU because they wish for EU citizens and companies to be treated fairly in Poland. That means having an independent judiciary.
It does affect the EU because they wish for EU citizens and companies to be treated fairly in Poland. That means having an independent judiciary.
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23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
Exactly the same arguments came from Brexit supporters - that Britain was too big a market fot the other 27 to ignore.
18 months later the EU has called their bluff and told them no access to the single market without accepting EU law. Now the Brits are begging to be allowed to stay.
And that was Britain which has far more leverage than Poland would
Exactly the same arguments came from Brexit supporters - that Britain was too big a market fot the other 27 to ignore.
18 months later the EU has called their bluff and told them no access to the single market without accepting EU law. Now the Brits are begging to be allowed to stay.
And that was Britain which has far more leverage than Poland would
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23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
But That time will never arrive because the money that we get is not just what is handed out in the form of grants, the mutual trade between the 28 countries of the EU makes them all richer, all safer and all with better prospects.
Unless you think you're better off just trading with Hungarians. By the way, if the Hungarian opposition can get its act together over the next six months I have a good chance of taking away Orbans absolute majority.
But That time will never arrive because the money that we get is not just what is handed out in the form of grants, the mutual trade between the 28 countries of the EU makes them all richer, all safer and all with better prospects.
Unless you think you're better off just trading with Hungarians. By the way, if the Hungarian opposition can get its act together over the next six months I have a good chance of taking away Orbans absolute majority.
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23 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
It is more subtle than that. I think the perfectly sensible point that people have is that the yes/no referendum is not suitable to extremely complex issues, with literally thousands of hidden consequences and something that is irreversible. There is also the problem that the people who call the referendum we are not willing to implement his results.
It is more subtle than that. I think the perfectly sensible point that people have is that the yes/no referendum is not suitable to extremely complex issues, with literally thousands of hidden consequences and something that is irreversible. There is also the problem that the people who call the referendum we are not willing to implement his results.
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21 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
Im not sure you are the best person to lecturr about values
Im not sure you are the best person to lecturr about values
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20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
Yes - but given no president can serve more than 2 life terms there is an excellent check and balance on judicial appointments
Unlike PL where Ziobro could prosecute Tusk and have him tried by PiS appointed judges
Yes - but given no president can serve more than 2 life terms there is an excellent check and balance on judicial appointments
Unlike PL where Ziobro could prosecute Tusk and have him tried by PiS appointed judges
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20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
Yes but all courts have ultimate recourse to the supreme court. It is not easy to use the US courts to try political opponents- which is what Ziobro and PiS want
Yes but all courts have ultimate recourse to the supreme court. It is not easy to use the US courts to try political opponents- which is what Ziobro and PiS want
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20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
It is not because in the US judges get life time terms and thus are appointed and confirmed by different presidents and senates over many years.
The American Bar Association has strongly criticised the Polish actions, which have no parallels in the developed democracies
It is not because in the US judges get life time terms and thus are appointed and confirmed by different presidents and senates over many years.
The American Bar Association has strongly criticised the Polish actions, which have no parallels in the developed democracies
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20 Dec 2017
News / EU triggers Article 7, could strip Poland of voting rights [91]
In Germany the chief prosecutor is not the justice minister.
In Germany each Lander has input into judicial appointments
Maybe link to the pages for Iran or Cuba
In Germany the chief prosecutor is not the justice minister.
In Germany each Lander has input into judicial appointments
Maybe link to the pages for Iran or Cuba