Poland finally has a new finance minister
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Magdalena Rzeczkowska – the current head of the National Revenue Administration (KAS) – will be the new finance minister, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki announced.
"I applied to the president and the president accepted this request to appoint a new finance minister," Morawiecki said during a press conference.
February 11 this year. President Andrzej Duda accepted the resignation of Tadeusz Kościński from the function of finance minister. From then on, the duties of the Minister of Finance were performed by Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki.
From March 2020, Magdalena Rzeczkowska was the head of the National Revenue Administration and the secretary of state at the Ministry of Finance. In the years 1998-2002 she worked at the Central Customs Office, and from 2002 at the Ministry of Finance.
She took an active part in activities related to Poland's accession to the European Union, she co-created the Customs Law and executive regulations. In 2016, she coordinated the entire implementation process of the new provisions of the EU Customs Code. She was also responsible, inter alia, for the reform of customs clearance – implementation of the Customs Clearance Centers (CUDO).
