Szydło and team in Israel

Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło began the week in Israel, where, along with some staff members from her cabinet, she is conducting intergovernmental consultations with Israeli officials, the Polish press reported on Monday. According to government spokesperson, Rafał Bochenek, Szydło was scheduled to meet with her counterpart, Benjamin Netanyahu, while Polish representatives from the Ministries of Science and Higher Education, Defense and Sport, among others, were meeting with their Israeli colleagues. It was expected that two issues would be central to the agenda in today’s discussions – the Polish government’s implementation regarding their “Plan for Responsible Development” and reaching an agreement on social security. An important point of this visit will be the signing of a Polish-Israeli agreement on social security. The lack of such an agreement brought about “many adverse effects, such as the lack of a collection of data on the insurance characteristics of both countries (needed) to establish law and pension procedures,” Bochenek was reported to have said.