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In his exposé, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (PMM) repeated many theses proclaimed for the last two years; some of them are wrong and contradict the experiences of other countries; others, while right, stands in clear contradiction with the actual actions of the government.

As in the case of the Act on the National Council of the Judiciary, the presidential draft law on the Supreme Court still contains unconstitutional solutions. Retirement of all judges of the Military Chamber and others at the age of 65 (unless the president extends the retirement age individually), likewise removal of the first president of the Supreme Court, despite her constitutional six-year tenure, or the establishment of the new Disciplinary Chamber, so autonomous that it can be considered a separate court - these are the most vivid cases of proposals incompatible with the Constitution. In fact, the president's draft - as far as the consequences go - does not differ much from that of the PiS deputies, vetoed by him in July 2017.

The presidential veto to the Law on the National Council of the Judiciary as prepared by Law and Justice and the submission of the president’s own project has ended the first wave of protests against the appropriation of justice by the ruling majority. The act passed last Friday contains a mechanism - no less dangerous, in fact identical - of unconstitutional selection of judges to the National Council of the Judiciary by the Parliament, and it benefits mainly the ruling party.

Government declares a good state of public finances but at the same time intensifies its search for new ways to drain the taxpayers’ pockets. The newest example is provided by the work currently in progress on lifting the upper limit on pension contributions. As a result, for earnings starting at about 6 thousand PLN net monthly, each additional zloty paid by the employer will be burdened with 52 groszes of taxes and premiums, and only 48 groszes will go to the employee.

Despite warnings, voiced for over a year by FOR and other organizations, the Parliament, with the votes of PiS (Law and Justice Party) and Kukiz '15, adopted Bill on Restrictions Related to Trade on Sundays, pushed through by "Solidarity," politically affiliated with PiS. The act comes into force on 1 March 2018. Until the end of 2018, the trade ban will not apply on the first and last Sunday of the month, from 2019 only on the last Sunday of the month, and in 2020 a total ban will be introduced.

Two years of the PiS’ (the Law and Justice party) government constituted an unprecedented attack on Polish institutions of the rule of law. In the economic sphere, the government acts in a way that increases what should fall - public debt, and decreases what should grow - the strength of the private sector. It places Poland on a dangerous turn of her history, and the economic prospects of our country start to look bleak, especially in the event of a downturn in the global economy.

Two years of the PiS’ (the Law and Justice party) government constituted an unprecedented attack on Polish institutions of the rule of law. In the economic sphere, the government acts in such a way that what should fall – increases, like the public debt, and what should grow – decreases, like the strength of the private sector. All this places Poland on a dangerous turn of her history, and the economic prospects of our country start to look bleak, especially in the event of a downturn in the global economy.