Two significant crises giving business and local governments a hard time

The past two years have been difficult for businesses and state and local governments. The COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine gave them a crash course in crisis management. In a situation of uncertainty and the increased risk, they coped well with conducting business, ensuring continuity of services, and reorganizing models of operation – assessed the participants of the Forum on Security – Cities and business in crisis mode, which took place in Lodz. At the same time, entrepreneurs and local governments point out that to face other crises in the future, they need a stable, predictable legal environment.

"The crises that affected us over the last two years, so first the COVID-19 pandemic, then the hostilities in Ukraine, it was a huge test for all local governments," Michal Domaradzki, director of the Office of Security and Crisis Management at the Warsaw City Hall, said.

As he pointed out, during the pandemic, the challenge for local governments included a quick reorganization of the work of offices, which so far have instead not practiced remote working, or the need to introduce a sanitary regime in public transport, which in Warsaw alone is used daily by about 3 million residents.

"The capital's population has increased by about 12-15 percent. This is a scale of several hundred thousand people," Michal Domaradzki added.

(Newseria)