Billionaire tasked by Tusk with cutting red tape in Poland submits first 111 proposals

Mar 25, 2025 | Business, Law, Politics, Society

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A team led by Rafał Brzoska, one of Poland’s richest people, and tasked by Prime Minister Donald Tusk with advising the government on how to cut bureaucracy, has submitted its first 111 proposals.

Among the suggestions – which Brzoska and Tusk want to begin implementing within 100 days – are reducing hurdles for people to obtain disability support, making it easier for businesses to collect debts, and eliminating requests from state offices for information that is already publicly available.

Brzoska is the founder and CEO of InPost, a major European logistics firm. Last month, during a speech to business leaders, Tusk invited Brzoska, who was in the audience, to lead efforts to deregulate the economy, something the Polish government has promised to do at the national and EU level.

Brzoska accepted the offer, and quickly set up a group of experts from the spheres of business, politics, law and healthcare. They invited the public to submit proposals for cutting red tape, which were assessed initially by artificial intelligence and then, after being filtered, by the experts.

Over 13,000 ideas were submitted, with Brzoska saying that 70% of them were not related to business but to issues in which “citizens lose out in the clash with bureaucracy and the state”.

Ideas that were approved by the team were then put online and opened up for public voting, with the promise that the best would be submitted to the government as “ready-made proposals” for implementation.

 

On Monday, Brzoska announced that the first 111 such proposals had been submitted. He added that he was starting a “100-day timer” for the government to start implementing the ideas.

When Tusk came to power in December 2023, he had outlined 100 policies he promised to introduce in his first 100 days. However, the vast majority were in fact not introduced by that deadline – and most still have not been.

Speaking on Monday after meeting Brzoska and his team, Tusk said that he hoped the first of Brzoska’s proposals could start to be implemented in May. “The process of freeing the economy and public life from excessive regulation is really accelerating,” he declared.

“Polish entrepreneurship is our national treasure,” the prime minister later wrote on social media. “It is high time to free it from the thicket of absurd regulations…This will be a breakthrough year…Machetes at the ready.”

The most popular proposal submitted yesterday to the government – according to public voting on Brzoska’s website – is to eliminate the requirement for people to periodically renew disability certificates if there is no improvement in their health condition.

Currently, someone with, for example, Down syndrome who is unable to work and function normally must regularly prove that their condition has not changed in order to continue being classified as disabled.

Other popular ideas include eliminating the need to print receipts for cashless payments, a ban on state offices asking citizens and businesses to provide data that is already publicly available, and the introduction of a minimum 12-month transition period for changes in tax regulations.

Brzoska’s team have also proposed allowing couples to divorce without the need to go to court in certain cases, making it simpler and faster for businesses to collect debts owed to them, and digitising court proceedings.

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