 Good afternoon and welcome to this press conference from the 48th annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos Thank you for joining us here in the room Thank you for joining those who Watch us on Periscope on the website or on Facebook We're particularly pleased and honored today here to Have the ability to introduce to you The Prime Minister of Poland, Mateusz Murawiecki and to his immediate left. We're joined by Konrad Siemanski Who's the deputy foreign minister of Poland without further ado? Prime Minister over to you, please Thank you very much, and I would also like to thank everybody who is watching us and interested in Perspective of Poland and how we look at the World Economic Forum and its motto here committed to Improving the state of the world is also the motto for Poland Maybe we focus more on the European dimension, but we take it very seriously and in in this very context we Focus also on completing the single European market, and this is What I was discussing with many of my colleagues from Western and Eastern Europe it might seem strange, but I Truly believe that we can increase the competitiveness of the whole Europe and through this we can be we can contribute a lot to to more positive world if we complete seeing the single European markets through Real implementation of freedom to provide services This is one of the four freedoms of the treat from the Treaty of Rome not yet completed And this is one area where we try to find allies Of course in in the world post Brexit it it will it is going to be a little bit more difficult by it But the countries like nor and Norway in the context of European economic zone area but in Denmark and the Netherlands and and other countries are Are are going to support us in those efforts? Well, like the Europe the European Union for us is like two lungs The Western Europe and Eastern Europe and like in the post-war Europe The Marsha plan was in the interest of Europe But in the interest of the US at the same time because it has recreated the Western Europe and help it Flourish and and develop in the very right direction and then the Western Europe became a very critical ally for the United States In in in the very similar manner today, I believe that some Support and opening of markets and and lowering trade barriers and And softening some protectionist measures would help to develop the robust Central and Eastern Europe which will then in turn be a very good very good Elements supporting the the development of competitiveness and the development of of the European Union as such We have also discussed Lots of security related issues not only energy security like related to to the to the Baltic pipe or not streamed to But also the security in general the Russian invasion on Ukraine and the Minsk agreement and And many other security related issues also In the context of the refugees migrations This is the area where we would like to play positive role and we Present our very active position towards helping the poor people those very poor people migrants and the refugees in situ in the places where they are coming from to Europe and also Like the responsibility of the elites some people call this meeting in Davos and meeting of elites is also tackling imbalances and inequalities in today's world and report of ox by ox farm presented just before the World Economic Forum started which is Showing the proportions of the wealth created and where where where does it go? 82% of the new newly created wealth goes to the pockets of 1% of the population in the world and Question hanging in the air here. Is this sustainable? Is it not in my opinion? It is not so we have to work on a new New new deal on new social contract like in in Europe and some other places in the world In the post-war era. There was a new social contract Established and and today with the new circumstances new challenges around us in the context of the era of robotics artificial intelligence rapid technological changes we need new Proposition for millions if not hundreds of millions he has hundreds of millions of people all over the world But also there are there is significant part of the population across different countries in the European Union with who are Extremely anxious uneasy about the changes around us and our Economic growth has to be strong, but has to be inclusive at the same time That's maybe as an opening or opening remarks for Polish journalist Should I repeat it more or less in Polish or is it is it okay that I stop today stop now and It would be nice. Okay Szanowni Państwo krótkostresz to to co powiedziałem Wczarodziejskiej górze Tomasza Manna stolat temu w tym miejscu elity ówczesnego świata zastanawialy się nad wyzwaniami Jakie są przed nimi Rozpoznały te wyzwania dość słabo bo wiemy jak się potem potoczyło kilkadziesiąt kolejnych lat później po drugiej wojnie światowej W ramach planu marszała dla europejskiej wspólnoty węgla i stali ówczesne elity rozpoznały Wyzwania słusznie i dzisiaj myślę po kolejnych kilkudziesięciu latach jesteśmy właśnie na takim znowu zakręcie Historii W ramach którego musimy głęboko przemyśleć wyzwania współczesnego świata związane z nierównościami to ten słynny raport oxfarmu, który Mówi tu dzisiejszym elitom, że nie może być dalej tak, że 82 procent tworzonego majątku tworzonej wartości dodanej Idzie do idzie wręce Jednego procenta najbogatszych ludzi, bo a połowa najbiedniejsza połowa ludzkości, to przypomnę, jest to 3 miliardy 700 milionów ludzi Właściwie nie ma w ogóle przyrostu majątku, więc w takich okolicznościach dyskusja nad lepszym światem, nad regulacjami, nad zasadami inkluzywnego wzrostu jest moim zdaniem fundamentalna I Polska oraz Europa Centralna ma szansę pozytywnie przyczynić się do rozwoju na do rozwoju do Sytuacja Ekonomicznej Finansowej właśnie akcentując to, że ten przypływ musi rzeczywiście podnosić wszystkie łódki, a nie niektórych Zostawiać na plaży, bo rozwój Gospodarczy, który nie włącza społeczeństwa, który nie służy tym zwyczajnym ludziom, który omija ich nie będzie zaakceptowany w ramach demokracji W ramach różnych krajach, więc warto przyłożyć ogromną uwagę właśnie do tego, żeby dzisiaj rozpoznać Wyzwania przyszłości i takie adresować, żeby ogromna większość ludzi korzystała na wzroście gospodarczym i na stabilności politycznej, którą dzisiaj mamy For questions, you might ask the question either in English or Polish as you wish We have a microphone here, if I could see a show of hands This is a gentleman in the back, let's take the first two questions there please Marcin Czapski, TVP Info Panie premierze, chciałem zapytać, czy jakieś sukcesy możemy już odnotować? Wczoraj słyszeliśmy od deklaracji ze strony Google, czy po kolejnych rozmowach coś jeszcze? Padło? Ja podkreślam, że tutaj głównie rozmawia się, przedstawia rację danego kraju, promuje Polskę w tym przypadku moim, pana prezydenta i moim i to jest podstawowa funkcja, podstawowy cel naszej wizyty ale oprócz tego oczywiście, rzeczywiście z wieloma liderami różnych organizacji Philips Google, Arcelor Metal, rozmawiałem o zwiększeniu ich obecności w Polsce i ogromna większość tych rozmów jest bardzo pozytywna, ale główny cel mojej wizyty tutaj to właśnie szukanie sojuszników w wyzwaniach współczesnego świata i Europy takich jak bezpieczeństwo na styku Rosja Ukraina, Europa Centralna, Nord Stream 2 i dalsza monopolizacja dostawgazu do Europy nasz gazociąg bałtycki o którym rozmawiałem dzisiaj rano z panią premier Norwegii, z panem premierem Danii ale również z premierem Holandii, to są fundamentalnie ważne tematy dla bezpieczeństwa europejskiego, dla bezpieczeństwa energetycznego, dla solidarności energetycznej i dla budowania takiego porządku gospodarczego, który nie będzie opierał się o zwiększanie ryzyk i politykę Begardine-Abor, czyli taki w ciężar kosztów kogoś innego tylko będzie rzeczywiście oparty o zasady solidarności. Thank you very much and let's get the second question from the gentleman back there please. Yes, Prime Minister, I'm not sure, I can't understand everything you said in Polish so maybe it could double a bit. So you mentioned two things, I have two questions. The first thing is you talked about the new deal. Can you give us some more concrete measures, what it is about? How should it look? And the second thing is you want to deepen the common market. Also some more details please. That would be nice, thank you very much. Would you also share your name and organization with us please? Yes, my name is Wenastama by FASat. Thank you. In the context of the first question, what I really mean is that today with rapid technological changes so many people are fearful of their jobs, of their job, of their working place and we have to create a vision presenting to them that they will not be left alone. That the new social contract will have some proposition for them even if they are unemployed or what the unemployment state is going to be. What will it really mean for those people? According to lots of recent researches by renowned universities some 50-60% of today's jobs will get lost over the next 15-20 years and probably new type of jobs, new occupations are going to be created. I have no doubts about this but for most of the children as they say which are in the process of education today they will not be employed in sectors which are existing today. So huge vast changes which have to be addressed through new social contract. I would name it like this. Your second question was about the single European market, common market. Maybe a couple of simple examples. One is freedom to provide services which the biggest attempt to really deliver on this, the famous Wolkenstein directive failed some decade ago and today we see some protectionist measures on the side of some richer countries and those measures are going to jeopardize the competitiveness of the whole European Union and in my opinion it's better to allow for more competition from small and meat-sized, from meat-sized in particular from meat-sized Central and Eastern European companies allow for this competition because this is a kind of proxy for the competition which will anyway come from the other regions in the world like China, like India, like the United States or Latin America or the Middle East and in this context completing the single European market from the point of view of freedom to provide services is going to be good short and mid-term for Central and Eastern Europe but it's going to be very good for the whole European Union in the mid to longer term. I would also mention capital markets union because this is another element of the whole jigsaw which is by far not completed and this is this type of access to capital which is extremely important for small and meat-sized enterprises so I would emphasize those elements and on top of this a couple of others like I only mentioned those like common defense policy like the European defense fund we strongly supported permanent structured cooperation and the works around the directive on post-it workers these are these elements where we have to find compromise for the single European market to be stronger rather than weaker Thank you very much. I think we have time for one last question from the lady in the middle here please. I would like to ask you Mr. Prime Minister to refer to few specific questions. First of all here in Davos we were set a lot of words of concern about that there is too much of complacency and the government should build some buffers on the time of economic downturn. Do you agree with them? What particular risks have you already defined? The second question is could you refer to the statement of a supreme court spokesman, spokesperson in Poland that you are spreading fake news or generalize talking about judiciary system in Poland and maybe some more evaluation about cryptocurrency threats and your measures which you would like to implement. Thank you. Considering the advance time I'd say we probably focus on the questions that concern the international agenda and maybe keep the domestic questions for a later point but Prime Minister? It is very important item discussed here in Davos how to actually cope for the risks of the future and how to build buffers and what if the monetary policy is no longer effective. In the context of dealing with today's difficulties and this was the topic of many discussions which I led yesterday and today and in this very context I have emphasized what we have done in the area of tax gathering system tax collection system. Here we have been extremely successful in 2017 because we were able to close more than half of the VAT gap which has created a completely new economic situation where we have expanded our social programs and at the same time we have reduced our projected budget deficit and our public debt is much lower in relation to GDP than it was and used to be a year ago. On top of this our GDP growth is today much stronger than 90% of rating agencies and brokerage houses and financial institutions would have predicted just 12 months ago. It is indicating that our concoction of different elements in the context of micro-macro policy and regulatory policy so our policy mix including independent central bank with their monetary policy works very well and for some other countries in the central and eastern Europe we can be a good example of how to get out of some traps which we fall into after 25 years of the development which was not bad but it could have been much better if not the mistakes from the past. To your latter question only one sentence it's only about facts. The facts have been published. How many judges in today's Supreme Court? I regret very much that so many judges in the Supreme Court stem from the times of the martial law when during the very dark communist times they were active judges supporting communist regime. Thank you very much Prime Minister for taking the time to answer questions from media. Thank you very much for being here in the room. Thank you very much for watching. Thank you.