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This week, Notes from Poland editor-at-large Stanley Bill talks with Poland’s former finance minister, and key author of post-1989 free market reforms, Leszek Balcerowicz, about Poland’s economy and politics under the current government in the shadow of coronavirus.
They discuss PiS’s social spending programmes and economic policy, its handling of the epidemic, rule of law, and the opposition’s best strategies for electoral success.
Also check out our previous interview on rule of law with Poland’s deputy foreign minister.
Producer: Sebastian Leśniewski
Stanley Bill is the founder and editor-at-large of Notes from Poland. He is also Professor of Polish Studies and Director of the Polish Studies Programme at the University of Cambridge. He has spent more than ten years living in Poland, mostly based in Kraków and Bielsko-Biała.
He is the Chair of the Board of the Notes from Poland Foundation.
