Optimistic scenarios dominate in politicians’ statements
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According to Jadwiga Emilewicz, Deputy PM and Minister of Development, the baseline scenario assumes fairly full thawing of the economy from the beginning of July.
Conversely, Paweł Borys, the president of the Polish Development Fund (PFR), claimed that Poland has the chance to keep the registered unemployment rate below 10 percent during the crisis related to the coronavirus epidemic
"We entered this crisis with strong economic foundations – historically the lowest unemployment. We had the highest number of vacancies in the labor market in the history of Poland. We had an employee market. This will, of course, change. We have nearly 1 million employees from Ukraine on the labor market – the question, whether everyone will continue working. It seems to me that all this means that we have the chance to protect ourselves against such a significant increase in unemployment above 10 percent. All solutions that have been adopted as part of the anti-crisis shield are also used for this," Borys said.
