EMM News Explorer: Jacek Rostowski

[-said]: I think that we will decide on this [an eventual budget revision] when we will have a full picture of the situation after the first half of the year,

warsawvoice 12-MAY-13

[-said]: The council of ministers adopted today an updated convergence program with a public finance deficit reduction path from 3.9% [of GDP] in 2012 . . . to 3.5% this year and then further slight decline next year and to 1.6% of GDP in 2016,

warsawvoice 02-MAY-13

[-said]: The actions we plan are . . . keeping discretionary spending in strict limits - it won't grow more than inflation in these years,

warsawvoice 02-MAY-13

[-said]: I believe that a 40% debt-to-GDP level of public debt is a safe level for adopting the euro,

warsawvoice 24-APR-13

[-said]: We do not expect excessive deficit procedure to be lifted in 2013,

warsawvoice 23-APR-13

[-said]: The Polish government believes it will reduce its general government deficit to 3.5% of GDP in 2013 from 3.9% in 2012, thus paving the way to lifting excessive deficit procedure in 2014 versus previously expected 2013

warsawvoice 23-APR-13

[-said]: Here’s a good motto for the day: no big rush on euro zone entry, but speed up on readying the economy,

BBJ 22-APR-13

[-said]: I'm not fooling myself that these preparations will only take a couple years,

eubusiness 19-APR-13

[-said]: Here's a good motto for the day: no big rush on eurozone entry, but speed up on readying the economy,

eubusiness 19-APR-13

[-said]: The scale of the problem is smaller in Poland than in western Europe, but some of the techniques used in western Europe to evade taxes are being transferred to Poland too,

taipeitimes 14-APR-13

[-said]: The scale of the problem is smaller in Poland than in western Europe but some of the techniques used in western Europe to evade taxes are being transferred to Poland too,

news 13-APR-13

[-said]: Unlike bank analysts, we do not revise our forecasts every few weeks or months unless there are serious reasons to consider such a revision,

warsawvoice 27-MAR-13

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pap 08-MAR-13

[-said]: 2-3 pps lower than in the euro zone according to EU methodology,

warsawvoice 08-MAR-13

[-told]: We maintain forecasts written down the budget (law), we do not revise them every few weeks. We will stick to them as long as there are no serious reasons for amending the budget,

pap 08-MAR-13

[-said]: As far as slowdown is concerned, next year will be slightly better than this year, but it will be relatively difficult,

warsawvoice 26-FEB-13

[-said]: We will discuss a road map which we must design and which will direct our activities so that Poland could really benefit from entering the euro zone,

pap 26-FEB-13

[-told]: In the last three year, in line with the EU recommendations and in line with what the rate council said two years ago, we have very significantly cut budget deficit, so we created a tremendous room, I think for rate cuts,

warsawvoice 25-FEB-13

[-said]: a little bit, cools it down even more,

warsawvoice 25-FEB-13

[-also said]: We think there is a lot of scope for reduction in interest rates.

ibtimes 15-FEB-13

[-told]: We don't see the slowdown as being particularly threatening,

ibtimes 15-FEB-13

[said:]: No. Poland's economy has slowed as a result of what was happening in the euro zone, as a result of three years of recession but since the declaration by the European Central Bank to

ibtimes 15-FEB-13

[-added]: We expect recovery in the euro zone in 2014 which means acceleration in Poland,

ibtimes 15-FEB-13

[-told]: We are comfortable with accommodative monetary policies in countries like Japan as we think it is suitable for the current cycle in the world economy,

news 15-FEB-13

[said that:]: We expect the first half of this year will be weak but in the second half the economic situation will start to improve

thenews 26-JAN-13

[-said]: These words show that Ms Fotyga and the PiS do not understand anything of what is going on in Europe and the European Union,

pap 20-DEC-12

[-said]: allows us to influence the further evolution of the pact with no really binding obligations,

pap 20-DEC-12

[-said]: It means that the rupture in the euro zone (...) has been sealed for the foreseeable future. (...) Markets have accepted that the euro zone crisis is over. I think this is crucial, this means that the European economic crisis will also end,

pap 20-DEC-12

[-said]: This is a safe budget that will ensure public finances in Poland in 2013,

thenews 13-DEC-12

[-said]: In October 2012, Poland was the 15th in employment rankings in the EU. It is worth remembering that in October 2007 [when the Law and Justice party was last in power] Poland was 26th, or second worst,

thenews 13-DEC-12

[-declared]: The 2013 budget, created in uncertain and changing conditions, is nonetheless a throughout realistic budget

pap 10-DEC-12

[-said]: We are aware of the fact that in light of the huge uncertainty about what will happen in western Europe, especially in the euro zone, we may need to amend the budget over 2013

pap 10-DEC-12

[-said]: We have a public debt to GDP ratio this year at the level of some 53 pct according to the domestic methodology,

pap 07-DEC-12

[-said]: What is more important, the EC forecast assumes that the deficit/GDP ratio will decline further next year and in 2014. It also predicts that the debt/GDP ratio will fall this year,

pap 09-NOV-12

[-said]: An example of the kind of thing we are worried about is how one ensures proper democratic accountability of the ECB as a single supervisor? We believe that if we have an unaccountable single eurozone supervisor, we may be sowing the seeds of a major eurozone crisis five or 10 years down the line,

thenews 31-OCT-12

[said that:]: Poland will pass safely through the second phase of the finance crisis

thenews 23-OCT-12

[ said]: At the current stage of development, the proposal presented by the European Commission is completely beyond our interest. We just can’t join a body in which we would have no vote while being subject to its decisions,

WarsawBusiness 24-SEP-12

[ said]: This year, we predict the deficit for the entire sector at the level of 3.5 percent of GDP,

WarsawBusiness 06-SEP-12

[-told]: This year we expect to bring the public deficit back to 3.5 percent of GDP,

eubusiness 05-SEP-12

[-said]: The pace of the reduction could be slower,

news 20-AUG-12

[-told]: We’re forecasting 2.5% growth this year and we do not foresee a recession next year,

gulf 18-AUG-12

[-told]: We're forecasting 2.5 percent growth this year and we do not foresee a recession next year,

irishsun 17-AUG-12

[-commented]: It is yet another positive signal coming in the last few weeks,

pap 02-AUG-12

[admitted that:]: we have been told we are welcome on board. Our answer is that we are obliged.

pap 25-JUN-12

[-told]: We believe that any initiative that may lead to strengthening the euro zone is favourable for Poland. If a banking union is necessary to strengthen the euro zone, if the euro zone members decide to establish such a union, we will certainly not oppose it,

pap 22-JUN-12

[-said]: It is a major mistake to have a system whereby recapitalization of Spanish banks has to go through the Spanish public sector, increasing public sovereign Spanish debt,

news 07-JUN-12

[-told]: We need direct recapitalisation of spanish banks by eurozone funds,

irishsun 07-JUN-12

[ writes]: Europe must escape the devil's alternative of not being able to keep Greece in the euro, and not being able to risk it leaving,

cnn 21-MAY-12

[said that:]: if Greece goes back to the drachma, the European Central Bank should do everything to avoid a domino effect, including buying limitless amounts of the bonds of countries in danger of the market virus.

WarsawBusiness 21-MAY-12

[-has told]: The key issue is whether Greece’s exit from the eurozone will be controlled or not, and if we can create mechanisms that will protect other countries in the euro area,

thenews 16-MAY-12

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