Nafta Polska suggests that Lotos should acquire an investor

Only then the government will be able to decide about the group, said Prof. Andrzej Madera, the chairman of NP. In the long term, though, the Polish state should sell its shares in PKN Orlen, which is a common European and worldwide practice. Finishing privatisation of the group would steer it out of politics, which Prof. Madera considers essential. He is against a merger of both Polish companies due to a significant risk of them being taken over by foreign competition. Furthermore, a joint PKN Orlen-Lotos group would control about 80% of the Polish market, thus threatening the market's diversification. (Puls Biznesu, p. 1) J.L.