Mateusz Morawiecki

Mateusz Morawiecki (2018)

Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki [ maˈtɛuʃ jakub mɔraˈvjɛt͡ski ] (born June 20, 1968 in Breslau ) is a Polish politician ( PiS ) and has been Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland since December 11, 2017 ( Morawiecki I and II cabinet ). Before that he was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Economics and Finance in Beata Szydło's cabinet .

Life

Morawiecki is the son of the anti-communist dissident and politician Kornel Morawiecki and, as a youth, was also involved in the political opposition in what was then the People's Republic of Poland . During martial law he was involved with other activists in the printing and distribution of publications of the political underground press. In 1986 he began to write articles under pseudonyms , which were mainly published in the Biuletyn Dolnośląski .

In 1987 Morawiecki passed the matriculation examination at the Juliusz Słowacki Lyceum in Wrocław . As a student at the University of Wroclaw , he was active in the Independent Student Union and a member of the " Fighting Solidarność " which his father co-founded . Between 1988 and 1989 he also took part in occupation strikes and was co-organizer of the Myśli Politycznej “Wolni i Solidarni” (Political Opinion Club “Free and Solidarians”) , for which he was beaten, interrogated and arrested several times for political reasons. In 1992 Morawiecki finished his studies in history with a master's thesis on The Genesis and the First Years of 'Fighting Solidarność' (with interviews with 53 opposition members). A year later he completed a degree in business administration at the Technical University of Wroclaw and Central Connecticut State University , after which he obtained a Master of Business Administration degree from the Wroclaw Business Academy in 1995 .

Morawiecki has had a close friendship with Zbigniew Jagiełło , who later became chairman of the board of PKO Bank Polski , since his work in the “Fighting Solidarność”. After the political change , they both traded clothes and rented out billboards. In 1989 they founded the trading company Reverentia, which sold, among other things, medical equipment, fire protection products and garden articles and was converted into a publisher the following year. Morawiecki also wrote as an editor for the magazine Dwa Dni and worked from 1992 to 1995 as a management consultant for publishers, advertising agencies and financial institutions.

From 1995 Morawiecki concentrated entirely on activities in the financial sector and completed an internship at the Deutsche Bundesbank , among other things . From 1996 to 1997 he led research projects in the field of banking and macroeconomics at the University of Frankfurt . In the same year he completed a postgraduate course in European law and economic integration at the University of Hamburg . In collaboration with the lawyer Frank Emmert, he also published the manual for European law .

In 1998 Morawiecki became a deputy in the Polish Committee for European Integration in the accession negotiations department. He was a member of a ministerial group that had to negotiate the conditions for Poland's accession to the European Union in several areas. From 1998 to 2001 he was also a member of the supervisory board of the municipal energy supply company in Wałbrzych and of the Polish industrial development agency in Warsaw . At the same time he worked at Bank Zachodni and was, among other things, advisor to the CEO. In 2001, after the merger with Wielkopolski Bank Kredytowy, he became a board member of the new Bank Zachodni WBK. From mid-2007 he headed the board for eight years. As a result of the merger and the connection to the Spanish Banco Santander , the Bank Zachodni WBK rose to become Poland's third largest bank under Morawiecki. In 2014, Morawiecki earned over 1.76 million złoty (the equivalent of 450,000 euros) as CEO . In 2010 he was appointed to the Polish Economic Council by then Prime Minister Donald Tusk .

As a representative of the “ Solidarność Electoral Action ”, Morawiecki was a member of the regional parliament of the Lower Silesian Voivodeship from 1998 to 2002 . Morawiecki approached the PiS through the vice-chairman and economic expert of the Prawo i Sprawiedliwość (PiS) party, Aleksandra Natalli-Świat , who also came from Wroclaw . Beata Szydło took over her role after April 10, 2010 , for whom Morawiecki wrote analyzes and bullet points for debates and appearances, even before Szydło became Prime Minister. On November 16, 2015, he was appointed Minister of Economy in Beata Szydło's cabinet and has also been Minister of Finance since September 28, 2016. He has also officially been a member of the PiS since 2016.

In the course of a government reshuffle, the PiS decided on December 7th, 2017 that Morawiecki should replace the previous Prime Minister Beata Szydło after her resignation. On December 11, 2017, he was appointed the country's new Prime Minister. Beata Szydło remained in the government as his deputy.

Awards

In 2013 Morawiecki was awarded the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity on the occasion of his commitment to civil rights and the sovereignty of Poland. In 2015 he was awarded the knightly order "Polonia Restituta" for extraordinary services.

Positions

Morawiecki during the 54th MSC 2018

In terms of domestic politics, Morawiecki, as super minister, was responsible for financing the socio-political reforms of the PiS, whose flagships he sees in the Rodzina 500 plus child benefit project introduced in 2016 and the Mieszkanie plus construction program : "This is a major social transfer and at the same time an appeal to reverse the demographic trend." The government, led by the PiS, has quadrupled spending on social causes. On January 24, 2017, he stated that the data used to determine the Polish gross domestic product had been significantly falsified in the past by alleged tax fraud.

In terms of foreign policy, Morawiecki is less critical of the EU than Szydło, he said, for example: “Together, whether as a tandem or in the Weimar Triangle with France, we can be a good foundation for the renewal of the EU. We are very pro-EU. But not for a utopian EU, for the United States or a federal Europe. I think we are even more committed to the cohesion of the EU than the people of Germany. ”Eugeniusz Smolar from the Polish Center for International Relations , on the other hand, said:“ Morawiecki has been a mystery so far in foreign policy. He will certainly use tough national slogans, but he also knows very well how important it is for Poland to keep attracting new foreign investment. "

In response to a racist incident in Warsaw, Morawiecki said in January 2018: “There is no place for racism in Poland. We will do everything we can to make Poland safe for everyone. "

On the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference , Morawiecki was asked by the Israeli journalist Ronen Bergman in February 2018, with reference to the Polish Holocaust law , whether he would be criminally liable for talking about his mother's story - her family was during the Nazi occupation betrayed by Poland to the German occupiers. Morawiecki denied: There were also Polish perpetrators, “just as there were Jewish, Russian, Ukrainian and not only German perpetrators.” The claim that there were “Jewish perpetrators” in the Holocaust triggered widespread outrage. The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called the sentence "hideous", it shows Morawiecki's "inability to understand history". Ronald Lauder , the President of the World Jewish Congress , brought the sentence close to a falsification of history and demanded that Morawiecki should apologize to all Jews.

Web links

Commons : Mateusz Morawiecki  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Poland's “super minister” Morawiecki: “We're not driving anyone out of Poland” In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . September 30, 2016, accessed November 16, 2016.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Jeff Wallenfeldt, Mateusz Morawiecki, prime minister of Poland, Encyclopaedia Britannica
2. ↑ Absolwenci, Nauczyciele i Olimpijczycy. IX Liceum Ogólnokształcące im. Juliusza Słowackiego we Wrocławiu 1954-2004, Wrocław 2004, p. 182.
3. ^ The development strategy of the Polish economy according to Mateusz Morawiecki. In: Federal Center for Political Education. February 7, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Oto oświadczenie majątkowe Mateusza Morawieckiego. In: Bankier.pl. January 12, 2016, Retrieved November 16, 2016 (Polish). 
5. ↑ Bielecki pokieruje Rada gospodarcza premiera. In: parkiet.com. March 9, 2010, accessed November 14, 2015 (Polish). 
6. ↑ dziesięć lat województwa Dolnośląskiego. (No longer available online.) In: karkonosze.ws. December 2, 2008, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved November 14, 2015 (Polish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
7. ↑ Premier Beata Szydło odwołała ministra finansów. In: Onet.pl . September 28, 2016, Retrieved September 28, 2016 (Polish). 
8. ↑ Morawiecki wstąpił do PiS. In: tvn24.pl. March 16, 2016, Retrieved April 2, 2016 (Polish). 
9. ↑ Mateusz Morawiecki becomes Poland's new head of government. In: Spiegel online from December 7, 2017, accessed December 8, 2017.
10. ↑ Poland's new Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki has been officially appointed. In: NZZ , December 8, 2017, accessed on the same day.
11. ↑ Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 25 października 2013 r. o nadaniu odznaczeń ( MP z 2014 r. poz. 463 ).
12. ↑ Postanowienie Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej z dnia 23 czerwca 2015 r. o nadaniu orderów ( MP z 2015 r. poz. 853 ).
13. ↑ FAZ.net January 24, 2017: Is Poland's economic growth built on fraud?
14. ↑ Gerhard Gnauck: “Morawiecki is so far a riddle in terms of foreign policy” , Welt-N24.de of December 7, 2017, accessed on December 8, 2017
15. ↑ No place for racism in Poland, says PM after attack on teen (English), thenews.pl, January 5, 2018
16. ↑ Gabriele Lesser: Poland's Prime Minister outraged with Holocaust statement. In: taz of February 19, 2018, p. 9.