A Presidential Dilemma

The government's intended legislative amendments - currently awaiting presidential approval after securing upper and lower house support -fall into four categories of reform. The first and most emotive of these is a measure designed to extend retirement rights for miners (and a limited number of workers in other fields). Under existing arrangements, miners are allowed to retire on a full pension after 25 years of service. The government is seeking to preserve this right (though without the support of the prime minister), at a cost of PLN26bn over the 2007-2011 period, according to its own estimates. Secondary to this is

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