Poland
Polish MPC hits at budget, rate outlook unclear
Poland's monetary policy council raised doubts on Monday about its readiness to cut interest rates next year, when it said the government's plan for cutting the budget deficit relied on "unrealistic" targets.
Polish president debates new c.bank head next week
President Aleksander Kwasniewski will meet Poland's top three political parties next week to discuss candidates for the new central bank chief, opening the way for a parliamentary vote on the issue as soon as December 6-8.
Polish central bank says no rate cut in Q1 2001
Polish central bank President Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz said on Friday she did not see scope for interest rate cuts in the first quarter of next year but hoped there was room for a cut by the end of the first half of 2001.
Increased support for Balcerowicz as NBP president
Former Polish foreign minister Bronislaw Geremek of the Freedom Union [former ruling coalition junior partner with Solidarity Electoral Action] on Sunday announced he would call on all the parliamentary caucuses to support the candidature of Leszek…
Balcerowicz might be seeking Polish cenbank post
Leszek Balcerowicz, the author of Poland's free market reforms in the early 1990s, said on Friday he would quit his political leadership role, amid expectations he will seek the presidency of the National Bank of Poland.
Balcerowicz best for top central bank post
Poland's liberal former finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz would be the best candidate to replace Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, the outgoing central bank governor, Poland's deputy premier told the best-selling Gazeta Wyborcza daily on Thursday.
Gronkiewicz-Waltz at the EBRD
In an interview with a Polish business journal, the Governor of the National Bank of Poland talks about her decision to leave the central bank and what her future duties at the EBRD will be.
Interview with Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz
The changes to Poland's monetary policy framework in the 1997 National Bank of Poland Act have proved rather difficult to swallow. But now the reforms are bedding down, central bank presidentHanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz can focus on preparing Poland for…
NBP discusses draft payment systems laws
Today the meeting of the National Bank of Poland's payment systems council, a consultative and advisory body of the central bank's management board, discussed draft laws that implement the basic regulations of the European Union in the area of payment…
Polish central banker resigns
Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz announced she would leave the Polish central bank inJanuary to become a deputy head of the European Bank for Reconstruction andDevelopment.