Butting heads

Jerzy Hausner, the minister of economy, labor and social policy, said that his program of public finance reform is not incompatible with the one put forward by finance minister and deputy prime minister Grzegorz Kołodko. "To put it simply ... I suggest that (Kołodko's) public finance reform program be supplemented by the labor and economy ministry's plan," Hausner said. "I cannot rule out a situation where in some respects we can't reach an agreement. That's where the prime minister and the cabinet come in."

TVP president hangs on

Robert Kwiatkowski, president of TVP, will keep his job after the company's supervisory board rejected a motion for his dismissal for the third time. The board will, however, consider appointing another executive in addition to Kwiatkowski and his deputy Tadeusz Skoczek at its next session in May. The vote came in the wake of the Senate's approval of the National Radio and Television Council's report. Two other board members, who had voted for Kwiatkowski's dismissal, resigned in protest of the board's refusal to dismiss him.

Bankers increase expectations

The Pengab banking-climate index rose in April for the second consecutive month, reaching its highest level since last August. The index currently stands at 25 points, a four-point increase over the previous month. Pengab is a measurement of the expectations of the nation's top 200 bank managers. In April, bankers' expectations of loan and deposit developments had improved considerably compared with March, while their predictions for inflation at year-end remained at 2.5%.