Former Finance Minister Rostowski responds to tape scandal

The subject of conversation in the tape recording scandal, former Minister of Finance, Jacek Rostowski, will seek legal action against perpetrators of the illegal recordings. He further commented in an interview for forsal.pl, that he willfully resigned from the Finance Ministry and that a rescue by the National Bank of the budget deficit is neither necessary nor possible. The Polish constitution, the amendment to the National Bank act, as well as EU laws prohibit a move by the National Bank to finance a public budget deficit, nor is the deficit large enough to warrant such an action, said Rostowski. He did comment the relationship between government and the central bank, saying that a balance needs to be struck between various national institutions.