Professor Elżbieta Mączyńska, President of the Polish Economic Society and Chairperson of the Award Jury at the European Business Club Poland, while taking up the topic of the impact of the pandemic on the Polish economy, emphasized that “… there are forecasts that show, that despite the fact that some sectors of the economy will indeed suffer wounds, Poland will still have a chance for a relatively good transition through this crisis. (…) A careful, gradual unfreezing of the economy is very important. Rush and deep changes in order to reduce isolation may lead to a worse result. (….) The most important thing is to work out a golden mean between concern for people’s health condition and concern for companies condition. Forecasts about the economic impact of a national quarantine are very divergent. It is impossible to fully define and count the real consequences of the crisis ”. The professor adds: “These wounds do not have to be as deep and long-lasting as in other countries, because the actions that have been taken, in my opinion, are proper. I call it displaceable restructuring, which is a temporary shift of economic potential to other sectors. I mean, for example, transforming hotels into isolatories or quarantine places. Then there are also the government’s financial solutions.
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- EBC Poland supports the efforts of the Ombudsman for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises in the matter of “defrosting the economy” by 1 July 2020.