Thursday, January 6, 2011

Poland, "get a move on"

The Economist recently published an article about the current ..... let's call it politics of slow motion.
Interesting, right, or not- you decide.

"....But behind this cheery façade the edifice is creaking. The government’s polling lead has more to do with the opposition’s unpopularity than with its own achievements. Foreign-policy successes in making friends with Russia and Germany have lately been overshadowed by the crackdown in Belarus, a country that Poland had energetically wooed. Mr Tusk’s ministers have displayed a worrying tendency to dabble in distractions, such as a crackdown on semi-legal drugs and the enticing prospect of a new public holiday, rather than focusing on the serious reforms needed in state administration, the public finances and the labour market...."

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