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New Man Takes Polish Government’s Electric Chair
New Man Takes Polish Government’s Electric Chair

Author(s): Wojciech Kosc
Subject(s): Politics
Published by: Transitions Online
Keywords: privatization; GDP; Leszek Miller; Polityka; G8; Jan Kulczyk; El-Dystrybucja; Piotr Czyzewski; Warta; Kompania Piwowarska; privatized Polish firms; Telekomunikacja Polska; Polish government

Summary/Abstract: Few can envy Zbigniew Kaniewski: Since becoming Poland's fourth treasury minister in less than three years on 28 January, he has already been tarred as being no more than a yes-man to a prime minister who has allegedly been shaping the terms of a key privatization tender to suit one particular businessman.

  • Issue Year: 2004
  • Issue No: 02/03
  • Page Range: On Line
  • Page Count: 1
  • Language: English