• Conservative politicians boycott private TV station
  • 18.07.2008

Conservative politicians of Law and Justice, a party once ruling in Poland, have decided to boycott TVN, a very popular private television station.

Press reviewed by Aleksander Kropiwnicki.

That means, in fact, boycotting voters, so it's not a very smart move, says a columnist of RZECZPOSPOLITA. Yes, TVN is liberal and has always been waging war with the Law and Justice and its leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Still, there is no reason to take such irrational decisions. At the same time the liberal Prime Minister Donald Tusk has been boycotting RZECZPOSPOLITA. He hasn't agreed to be interviewed by this conservative daily newspaper for about half a year. The politicians explain that journalists of this TV station or that newspaper are not impartial. So, apparently, they want to punish the media. In fact, they are just punishing themselves, writes the columnist.

As everybody in Poland knows, Polish shipyards are in danger. If the government doesn't work out a good plan for privatization, the European Commission will make the shipyards go into receivership. However, as Professor Witold Orlowski writes in GAZETA WYBORCZA, it's all the fault of the Poles. Professor Orlowski, a well-known Polish economist, points out that the shipyards have been ill-goverened. Also, in the famous Gdansk Shipyard, where the Solidarity anti-totalitarian movement was born, the staff was visibly protected, so that the management was reluctant to reform the plant. Today, all three shipyards cannot pay their huge debts and the European Commission is not allowing the Polish government to help. The game is over and Poles should learn from this bitter lesson, writes Professor Orlowski.

The Polish national health service shouldn't be totally privatized, writes Dr. Konstanty Radziwill in the SUPER EXPRESS daily. Dr. Radziwill, who is the chairman of the Polish Main Chamber of Physicians, points out that even the most liberal states don't risk to pass the whole health care system to private enterprises. On the other hand the current situation, with hundreds of shabby state-owned hospitals, cannot be continued any longer. Poland needs some kind of compromise, with good private hospitals but also with some clinics protected by the state, writes Dr. Radziwill.

Any problems with your nanny? Look at Poland, where some nannies are really admired by the employers. As DZIENNIK informs, some parents, whose children are grown up, feel so indebted to their nannies for years of doing such a great job, that they don't want to leave them alone on the labor market. A grateful mum tries to find a good next family for her nanny. Advertising on the internet works and a perfect nanny finds a new employer pretty soon after. While your parents are busy, exhausted and impatient, who will teach you reading and writing, who will make you both smart and polite? Yes, your nanny. And you, in Britain or America, don't you know about Polish nannies? Sure you do.