Rita Schultz interviews Prof. Henryk Skarżyński, the first to be awarded the Honorary Pearl by “Polish Market” magazine.
You’re known not only as an eminent scientist, but also as an appreciated manager. Where did your management skills come from? Are they acquired, innate, or enforced by circumstances?
I find it very difficult to assess myself. True, life has given me the chance to prove myself in various situations. The basis for all was the scientific achievements which allowed me, after 10 years of collecting experiences, to perform surgery on the world’s first patient with partial deafness, following
the first successful restoration of hearing in a deaf person in Poland in 1992.

“The European Union’s energy policy should take into consideration three objectives – competitiveness, sustainable development and reliability of supply,” said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Economy Waldemar Pawlak in a meeting of the Economic Committee chairpersons of
the EU Member States. The debate on “The needs and funding opportunities for EU energy policy until 2020” was held on 12 September 2011 in the Polish Senate.

Where is the Polish financial sector after more than two years of the crisis?
After over two and a half years since the first strike of the crisis, it can be said that the Polish economy,
banking sector and businesses have generally made it through strengthened. However, businesses are not helped by the lack of economic stability nor the uncertain situation in the global financial system. Some 80% of assets in Polish banks are managed from headquarters located outside of
Poland. This is nothing wrong in a Interview with Jarosław Dąbrowski, an expert in international banking, CEO of Dąbrowski Finance situation of smoothly functioning financial markets, it may even be a plus.

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The Economy Ministry’s mission is to create the best-possible conditions for enterprise, hence one of its main activity areas is helping enterpreneurs – especially small and medium businesses – in accessing capital. Today it is the smallest businesses that have the biggest troubles in this respect.
This is done with the help of national and regional operational programmes carried out under the current financial perspective. The Operational Programme Innovative Economy alone involves nearly 6,000 contracts to the tune of close to PLN 11 billion.

Poland is, at the moment, one of the most attractive places in the world to locate investments.
According to the UNCTAD’s World Investment Report 2011 from 26 July 2011, Poland is the 6th most attractive location for foreign investments. This means that the country has moved up 5 places as compared with 2010, beating China and the United States. Already since the enlargement of the
European Union in 2005 Poland lured foreign investors. In total, in the years 2005-09 Poland attracted USD75.1 billion, Romania - USD47.3 billion, Czech Republic – USD40.2 billion, Bulgaria – USD33.5 billion.

 ACCA (the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants) held its annual Presidential Debate in Warsaw on July 19. The event gathered Polish government ministers, business leaders, Big 4 representatives, academics, and representatives of the European Commission in a series of panel debates.

New World Resources Plc (NWR), one of Central Europe’s leading hard coal and coke producers, has given its final approval for the Debiensko project. The decision is based on the outcomes of the detailed feasibility study and an extensive internal review of the project, as well as general market considerations.
NWR holds a 50-year mining license, granted in 2008, to extract coal from Debiensko.

Poland was the only country which blocked the conclusions reached on June 20 at a meeting of environment ministers concerning the path of reducing carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union by 2050, Polish News Agency (PAP) found out from unnamed sources close to the negotiations.