BCC backs Minister Hauser in attempt to get real economic issues tackled

According to entrepreneurs from the Business Centre Club (BCC) the most important aspects of overcoming economic stagnation are restructuring state-owned companies and decreasing tax and employers' social burdens. BCC representatives declared their support for the initiatives by Economy and Labour Minister Jerzy Hausner, as the problems he will be forced to face are the same as their own problems. They also said they will ask the Prime Minister to nominate Hausner as a Deputy Prime Minister so he could be a partner of the Finance Minister. In related news the BCC has begun a competition to find the most friendly tax office in Poland, which could help combat the conflict between officials and taxpayers. (Rzeczpospolita, p. B5) M.M. Rywin remains silent as officially charged with bribery in "Gazeta Gate" affair Prosecutors charged Lech Rywin with attempted bribery on Tuesday in the case involving Gazeta Wyborcza. Rywin was released on zl. 500,000 bail after being questioned for the first time by the prosecutors, who confiscated his passport and told him not to leave the country. He was charged with soliciting a bribe while citing links with a state institution. If convicted, he could go to jail for up to three years. "Rywin made use of his right to refuse to...answer questions," said the prosecutors' spokesman Zbigniew Jaskolski. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A.1; Reuters) A.Z.