A PESTLE PRESENTATION By: Santoshkumar Nair Roll No: 16

The Republic of Poland

Area: 312685 sq km Capital : Warsaw Neighboring states: Germany, Czech Republic,

Slovakia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Russia Official Language: Polish Population: 38.6 million Time: Central European Time(GMT+1) Currency: Zloty(1 Euro:4.18 zloty,1$=3.15 zloty) Inflation: 4% GDP: 765.6 billion USD (Purchasing power parity) GDP(2011):4.3% Unemployment rate : 12.5%

The origins of democracy - The Sejm The Polish Parliament active since .15 th century

Government & Political Conditions:

The current government

structure consists of a council of ministers led by a Prime Minister 460- member sejm and the 100- member senate or upper house.

The parliament consists of the

Parties represented in the sejm

in order of number of seats are Civic platform (PO) Law and Justice (PiS) The Democratic Left Alliance(SLD) The Polish Peoples Party (PSL) Poland Comes First (PJN)

Principle Government Officials:

President:

Bronislaw Komorowski

Prime Minister

Donald Tusk

Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the

Economy: Waldemar Pawlak (PSL) Minister of Foreign Affairs: Radoslaw Sikorski (PO) Minister of Defense--Tomasz Siemoniak (PO) Minister of Finance--Jacek Rostowski (PO) Minister of Treasury--Aleksander Grad (PO) Minister of Science and Higher Education--Barbara Kudrycka (PO Minister of Environment--Andrzej Kraszewski (nonparty) Minister of Health--Ewa Kopacz (PO) Minister of Culture and National Heritage--Bogdan Zdrojewski (PO) Minister of Justice--Krzysztof Kwiatkowski (PO) Minister of Labor and Social Policy--Jolanta Fedak (PSL) Minister of Sport--Adam Giersz (non-party)

Economical Conditions:
Polands perennial question. A major European powerhouse or a backwater supplying cheap labor?
Exports : $197.1 billion (2011 est.) Imports: :$217.9 billion (2011 est.)

The economic transformations were launched

in 1990 by the shock therapy authored by the then deputy premier and finance minister Leszek Balcerowicz . Once dominated by raw materials primarily coal todays polish exports are increasingly composed of highly processed goods ,car and car parts, machinery and electronics,furniture,non precious metals and metal products. Imports include machinery and transport equipment, intermediate manufactured

Many Polish factories have

become part of the German supply chain because of Polands high productivity and low wages. Poland has a balanced economy, big on energy, agriculture, manufacturing, high tech research and development. Since 2004, when Poland joined the EU and had access to EU structural funds, unemployment has remained perniciously high,

Polands yachting

industry is experiencing phenomenal growth and is set to become a European yachtbuilding hub, whose products are marked by high quality and low prices. In 2010, the value of its sales reached almost $500 million, giving Poland about five percent of a global market that is

Social
On June 4th 1989,poland entered a new epoch.

On that day for the first time in the communist bloc, the democratic opposition won what was virtually a free election. Two months later a non-communist government was formed. The whole of Central and Eastern Europe started waking up frm this historical torpor. The communist foundations has been shattered by the Solidarity movement and its leader ,Lech Walesa, who was awarded the nobel prize.

Lech Walesa speaks to the shipyard workers in August 1980

The first noncommunist Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki

Since then Poland has

become a country of colorful shops,international labels,new technologies and dynamic people.In restructuring their country,Poles have demonstrated their optimism and initiative,without losing any of the spontaneity, hospitality and romantic touch which has always won the the appreciation

Polish is spoken by some 50 million people around the globe, including virtually all Polish citizens and a diaspora in Europe and North America. London, Dublin and Chicago are the biggest Polish centres outside Polands borders
Faith: According to official

statistics, 34.6m out of 38m citizens of Poland are members of some religious group. Over 33m are Roman

Technology
The traditions of Polish

science dates back to the middle ages. In 1364,the first Polish University was formed. In 1883 two poles Zygmunt Wroblewski and Karol Olszewski liquefied oxygen and nitrogen from the air. Marie Curie Sklodowska won two Nobel prizes, in 1903 for physics and in 1911 for chemistry, she discovered polonium and radium. Ignacy Lukasiewicz was the inventor

Polish scientists are patenting global

industrial production of graphene, a miraculous material that is set revolutionise electronics. With better conductivity than copper it is one hundred times stronger than steel. Graphene was invented at the Institute of Materials Technology (ITME) in Warsaw.

A new technology is developed by the

company Ammono. This small company, has developed a new method for synthesising the best, biggest and purest crystals of gallium nitride.
Cardiac surgery robots The second important

project brings together high technology and the medical sciences. Scientists at the Foundation for the Development of Cardiosurgery (have created a series of cardiac surgery robots known as the Robin Heart Family The Robin Heart robots are highprecision surgical devices for use in cardiac surgery.

Judiciary of Polandis a responsibility, as defined by theconstitution of Poland of a four-tiercourt system: theSupreme Court of Poland, thecommon courts administrative courts(including the Supreme Administrative Court of Poland) andmilitary courts. The common courts, divided intoappellate courts,district courts andregional courts have the competency in criminal,

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