Kwasniewski called upon by PM Miller to summon the Cabinet Council

The Presidential office has announced that due to the country's difficult economic situation, Prime Minister Leszek Miller has turned to President Kwasniewski to summon the Cabinet Council to discuss Poland's monetary and currency policy. According to government spokesman Michal Tober, the meeting of the Cabinet Council will be a good forum to discuss the issue and give it "new impulses". The change of the currency and monetary policy is presently Poland's raison d'etat as regards economic issues. At a meeting in the Presidential Palace on Sunday, Miller presented Kwasniewski with an open letter signed by the presidents of 100 companies who critically evaluated the monetary and currency policy pursued by the National Bank of Poland (NBP). "We hope that the Monetary Policy Council (RPP) and NBP president Leszek Balcerowicz will be willing to listen intently to their voices and open themselves to the signals coming from all over the country, otherwise the RPP will become a lonely island inhabited by economists convinced of their infallibility," said Tober. He added that the Cabinet Council would be summoned after Kwasniewski's return from Korea. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A3) A.Z.