Most of the Polish dailies frontpage report on the meeting between Prime Minister Donald Tusk and leader of opposition Law and Justice, Jarosław Kaczyński.

Press reviewed by Elzbieta Krajewska.

“For the first time since 20 months” notes DZIENNIK. “After the meeting between the government chief and the leader of the opposition there’s still no agreement on the date of introduction of the euro. Are we going to have a referendum?” wonders RZECZPOSPOLITA. And GAZETA WYBORCZA adds “the meeting was substantive and calm but the two did not agree when the euro should be introduced or on the budget deficit”. The good news? Commentators note that the government and the opposition did agree to cut down on bureaucracy in business – while the opposition has stopped frightening the nation with visions of economic crisis. “With trouble in sight, pessimism would have been insufferable, and meanwhile the crisis will affect voters from both sides,” writes GAZETA WYBORCZA.

On a street-level scale, the SUPER EXPRESS tabloid says that the crisis has indeed struck. “Poles are not buying” trumpets the paper, reporting that food markets and small shops have seen a drop in turnover from by a third up to a whopping 80%. “People are cutting down on spending and saving for worse times” writes the daily, and adds that this is already hitting the retailers.

For a horror story over to the FAKT tabloid which reports on yesterday’s evacuation of intensive care patients from a hospital near Łódź where the doctors were striking. For the move, all of the patients were equipped with labels informing of their death. In case someone did die in the course of evacuation. Patients and their families were shattered. “How unbelievably heartless!” writes the paper, however also adding that apparently this happens to be the accepted  procedure.

And lastly, the Warsaw city daily ŻYCIE WARSZAWY, an addition to RZECZPOSPOLITA, has a feature on a school for… dads. It’s Warsaw’s first course for new fathers, teaching the men, among others, how to bathe babies and change nappies. The school was opened by a psychologist, who says that courses for future mothers usually ignore the fathers, while expectations of them, when the baby finally arrives, are high. The course takes two days. The paper adds a comment from a midwife that over the years she has seen men’s attitudes to babies alter greatly. “Now they would even breast feed if they could!” she says.