Nominated candidates must, among others, come from a Member State of the EBRD, to have the right qualifications and experience to perform this function and – if selected – respect existing bank Code of Conduct (Code of Conduct). Nominated candidates will be invited to submit in writing his vision of the bank (up to 11 April 2016.), And to 10 May 2016. The Board of Governors will interview candidates. The choice is to take place on May 11 this year.
The term Belka as head of the NBP expires in June. Last week, Polish Deputy Finance Minister Leszek Skiba made, as the Polish representative in the Council of Governors of the EBRD signed the candidacy beams, which means the official notification of the President of the NBP.
Marek Belka, head of the EBRD? Economists: has a good chance
Who are the head of the EBRD?
His rival will surely head of the EBRD since 2012. Total Chakrabarti, who actively seek another term. According to Reuters Chakrabartiemu, who previously was a high official in the British Ministry of Justice, in addition to the support of the UK managed to get the voice of France, a letter on this matter sent already to the EBRD in the French finance ministry.
However, according to Skiba idea of filing Belka as head of the EBRD in the 25th anniversary of its foundation comes from the Germans, which reinforces his candidacy.
The government supports the candidacy
He added that the support beams are active various members of the government, outside the Ministry of Finance, include Deputy Mateusz Morawiecki. – Tuesday will be the Ecofin Council, during which the Polish side will try to convince the greatest bunch of countries that supported the candidacy of Mr. President of the beams – he said Skiba PAP.
– I think that the chances of Marek Belka are greater than 50 percent – rated Skiba, when asked about the chances of the PAP Polish candidate.
B. Awl: M. Belka will be our candidate for the head of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development
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The difficult function
The four-year term Chakrabartiego is considered difficult for the bank. Ukrainian crisis caused large losses and the bank ceased to engage in new investments in Russia, as a result of sanctions imposed on that country by the European Union. However, the same Briton is regarded as a modernizer, who put on a more active and flexible bank, and introduced more modern principles of management of the institution itself. His appointment was regarded initially controversial, including because all the previous heads of the bank came from Niemica or France.
Before Chakrabartim went on to serve one term in Germany – SPD politician Thomas Mirow, while its predecessor was a French economist and senior official Jean Lemierre. In 2010. It has replaced in that position Horst Koehler (later President of Germany in 2004-2010), who was the head of the Bank for only two years, because he left her to take the place of head of the International Monetary Fund. The first two heads of the EBRD came the turn of France. In 1991-1993 he held the position of French economist and longtime adviser to French President Francois Mitterrand, Jacques Attali, who was replaced by lawyer and former head of the IMF and the French central bank, Jacques de Larosiere.
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Marek Belka replaces Slawomir Skrzypek, NBP
The beam was replaced in the chair head of the National Bank of Poland Slawomir Skrzypek, who died in the Smolensk plane crash. Was mentioned as a candidate for the post by the acting President Bronislaw Komorowski.
For the past six years, economists respected academic preparation beams to act as head of the central bank. They appreciated that as president of the NBP has never declared or closer to a hawkish or pigeon wings MPC – tries in a balanced way to look at monetary policy. Also appreciated the efforts of beams to the messages give advice as consistent message. Last beam avoided bold comments to the economic ideas of the new government of Law and Justice (eg. Bank tax, the program 500 plus). Cabinet Beaty Szydło reciprocated him to support his candidacy for the head of the EBRD.
Premier in 2004-2005
The highest position pełnionym by Belka was a function of the prime minister, which he held between May 2004 and October 2005 years. He was the head of the government having the support already divided the left-wing parties, escaping primarily for government supported by President Aleksander Kwasniewski. It’s then president pushed Belka as prime minister, even if his government for the first time did not receive a vote of confidence in Parliament.
As Prime Minister Belka wrote, among others, resignation in mid-2005, which would lead to early elections. Few, however, then came out of it. It’s his time created the Ministry of Sport, and the beam was first minister, linking him to hold this office with the function of prime minister. This beam Autumn 2004, filed on behalf of the Polish signature of the EU Constitution, which ultimately never entered into force, challenged the referendum in France and the Netherlands (replaced it with the Lisbon Treaty of 2007).
a member Belka government was already much earlier
In 1997. He was – after Gregory Kołodce – for a few months, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in the government of Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz. Both of these portfolios also included after winning the SLD-UP elections in 2001. When he was in the government of Leszek Miller.
It was then introduced a 19 percent tax on capital gains, called – his name – Belka tax. It was a part of the cuts carried out by the Government Miller in connection with the Polish economic problems (ie. Budget gap finance minister Jaroslaw Bauc).
Belka resigned from the positions of Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance in July 2002. Resignation justified personal reasons, also said that “he did not want to dig the horse.”
He was replaced by Grzegorz Kolodko. After some time it turned out that the then Commissioner of Public Interest Boguslaw Nizienski had time to consider the accusation Beams lustration lie.
The case broke out again when the beam was prime minister. The lie before parliamentary investigation committee for. Scandals in PKN Orlen accused him, among others, then a member of the committee, Roman Giertych. Belka denied that worked, admitted only that before leaving for the United States in 1984 signed a “user exit” PRL intelligence.
Head of International Coordination Council of the coalition in Iraq
In 2003., After the overthrow of Saddam Hussein’s regime, Belka served as head of the International Coordination Council of the coalition in Iraq, where he was responsible for the creation of a provisional government in this country. Then there was the Director. Economic policy in the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq. His competence belonged currency reform, the creation from scratch of a new banking system and the overall supervision of the country’s economy.
UN Secretary
in December 2005. Was executive secretary of the UN Economic Commission. Europe, and from January 2009. May 27, 2010. Prof. Belka was the director of the European Department of the International Monetary Fund. He resigned from his post after he became an official candidate for head of the National Bank of Poland.
Belka was born on January 9, 1952 in Lodz. He is a graduate of the Faculty of Economics and Sociology. In 1972. Was master of economics and economics of foreign trade in 1978. Received a doctorate in economics at the University of Lodz in 1994. – The title of professor of economic sciences.
In 1990. He was an adviser and consultant in the Ministry of Finance, then the Ministry of Privatization and the Central Planning Office. In 1994-96 he was deputy chairman of the Socio-Economic Strategy at the Council of Ministers and then economic adviser to President Aleksander Kwasniewski.
Man SLD
He was a member of the SLD 2005. When he endorsed for forming then the Democratic Party. Opened list demokratów.pl in parliamentary elections in the district of Lodz, but the party did not exceed the election threshold.
In the same 2005. The beam was intrigued by the public statements concerning its relationship with American actress and singer Jennifer Lopez. During questioning by a parliamentary committee of inquiry into the privatization of PZU, the question of Mr Zygmunt Wrzodak if he knew the boss Eureko Joao Talone, said that he also knows Jennifer Lopez, “but in another capacity.” Previously, the name of the star fell in beams interview with Radio ZET, when he spoke of the knowledge of the deputy Andrzej hulled barley. “Pęczak just know me as I know Jennifer Lopez,” – he said.
By contrast, asked during a television test knowledge economic question of how NBP strives to teach this knowledge he replied that “every economist is trying to be the least understandable, because then his social prestige grow. “
Do not always words beams confer him good fame
In 2014. On its image zaciążyło publication by “Wprost” illegally overheard a year before his conversation with then-Interior Minister Bartlomiej Sienkiewicz about hypothetical supported by NBP state budget a few months before the election, which can win the PiS.
Belka in exchange for the support he had put a condition resignation of the then finance Minister Jacek Rostowski and the Act on the central bank. Public opinion greatly angered not only about the conversation, but also the language that was written by the participants of the meeting and comments beams at the Monetary Policy Council and Board member Jerzy Hausner.
There were even voices about the need to set up a committee of inquiry, finally with great clouds dropped little rain. Consternation was short, I ended up on the fact that the President Belka apologized Council have been used during a call to formulate and asserted that it respects the body.
Affair Band
In the eyes of many economists NBP president but lost as a result of the scandal tape. In conversations with PAP pointed out that the wording, which die during the recorded conversations not tiled surface is flush with the seriousness professor, much less the president of the central bank.
After winning by Andrzej Duda presidential election Marek Belka again had to explain. Earlier, he said in fact that young people in presidential election voted for “comedian”. Belka said that looking towards the candidates in the first round, that “some of them could lay claim to this honorable title of”. He assured, however, that he is indignant that anyone could believe that his words could apply to the president Andrzej Duda. – It is absolute nonsense – he said. He stressed that he meant “different candidates, let’s call it exotic.”
“Red card” for the elite
After the elections, unexpectedly won by the candidate Law and Justice he said that young people in recent weeks showed elite “red card”. “I have to disagree, but I understand” – pointed. I argued: “Our highly successful transformation, it is also 40 per cent. Of young people working in unconventional employment contracts in the past 15 years, labor productivity in Poland grew much faster than in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia. Wages grew two and a half times slower “.
What about the euro zone?
Belka has repeatedly said that he was a supporter of joining the euro zone, but never tried to set a deadline, because this would entail the risk that it can not keep. He pointed out that the main benefit of joining the euro would be the rapid development of civilization and shortening the distance to the richest countries. According to Belka, when we get to it, the more will depend on the state of the euro zone itself, than the condition of the Polish economy. “We did not have in itself a weakness, but the euro zone is not very appetizing to to her to hurry,” – he said.
The beam supported a concept repolonizacji banks operating in Poland, calling the process “domestication” of the banks . – If there are situations that foreign investors from Polish wish to withdraw, I believe that the Polish entities should participate in this process and make use of such opportunities – he argued.
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