PM predicts five percent

"We want to accelerate economic growth. In 2006 [growth] will reach around five percent. All our efforts, higher absorption of EU funds, investment, increased consumption, will lead to higher growth," he told a Polish daily.

Experts predict that this year Poland's economy will grow by 3.5 percent. Earlier this month, Law and Justice (PiS) presented the first draft of its economic program, in which it predicted that growth would be 4.5 percent next year and five percent in 2007. (Reuters)