The budget cuts will not hamper the development of public investment projects financed from the state budget and EU funds, writes Rzeczpospolita.

Press reviewed by Elzbieta Krajewska

Most of the dailies frontpage the news that the government did find savings of almost 20 billion zlotys among the ministries. RZECZPOSPOLITA writes, however, that “investments grow in spite of the crisis,” reporting that the biggest Polish companies and public institutions will be spending considerable sums this year, and especially on public investment projects, using money from the state budget and EU funds. This will mostly go towards new roads and modernisation of the power industry. The daily DZIENNIK on the other hand worries that “the government won’t be able to protect the Polish zloty” because the state’s reserves which are sufficient in ordinary times just aren’t enough in a crisis situation. 

DZIENNIK also raises hopes of quick beatification of Father Jerzy Popiełuszko, the charismatic chaplain of Solidarity murdered by security police in 1984. “The Pope has decided to take the files on Father Popiełuszko’s martyrdom to the Vatican commission outside the queue,” writes the daily adding that 25 years after the murder it is still not known who orchestrated it, and less and less probable that this would ever be discovered.

Both GAZETA WYBORCZA and METRO, the daily distributed in the Warsaw underground, tackle aspects of cybercrime. GAZETA WYBORCZA warns that internet providers will be able to switch off those customers who download bootleg music or film files. METRO adds that tax offices will be looking more closely at internet trade. Auction portals will be obliged to supply information on suspect sellers – which might also mean the end of bargains on the net.

And lastly: tabloid SUPEREXPRESS gloats over bad news for former popular prime minister Kazimierz Marcinkiewicz, who made a TV show of his divorce plans. Eighty-six percent of the population don’t want to see their one-time favourite back in politics, SUPEREXPRESS notes, saying that it was the first to report how the former PM left his wife of 28 years and four children for a young blonde he met in London. The paper also writes that Mr. Marcinkiewicz had represented a party that “had on its banners family values, conservatism and tradition” and really rubs it in that Poles don’t like him anymore...