The Polish Economy: Achievements, Failures and Development Opportunities

Abstract

We celebrate the 90th anniversary of our University and today's panel discussion is one of the academic events in honour of the celebration. I am pleased that so many people accepted an invitation to our discussion. I would like to welcome the audience. I am also very glad to see the seven professors invited to participate in the discussion. Let me first introduce the panellists and then take you briefly through the topics that we would like to cover and the time frame the discussion. We are pleased with all of our achievements but now the time has come to thoroughly analyse failures and draw conclusions. That is why we need to discuss the things of which we cannot be too proud. There were times we simply failed. The criticism of what we praised began at the moment of transformation.