EU report charges Poland doesn't have enough professional civil servants

A European Union report is charging that Poland is too slow in creating a professional public servant corps. According to EU standards, appointed civil servants should make up 10%-15% of the service. Meanwhile, in Poland only 1% of the 105,000 government administration workers are appointed civil servants. If the current rate of appointing them is kept up, Poland will need some 20 years to meet EU standards. Miroslaw Stec, head of the Civil Service Council, says that the EU's report is ultimately not critical. He says the EU noticed that Poland has made a step in the right direction, but the effects are not yet satisfactory. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A5)