“From today on I will be working remotely. However, Duda retained his office, narrowly besting his Civic Platform challenger, Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s liberal mayor. [39] The opposition demanded Morawiecki's resignation.[40]. Jeff Wallenfeldt, manager of Geography and History, has worked as an editor at Encyclopaedia Britannica since 1992. We shall do everything to make Poland safe for everyone. The law had been passed by the Law and Justice party with Morawiecki's support. This opinion piece is published first on EURACTIV. It is no secret that Ziobro is at odds with Mateusz Morawiecki, the prime minister appointed in 2017 by the real head of PiS, Jaroslaw Kaczynski. [10] In 2019, he was awarded the title Man of the Year at the annual Krynica Economic Forum. Update vom 14. In 2001 he became managing director and a member of the board. "[38], Od 15 September 2020, Wojewódzki sąd administracyjny (administrative court) (pl:Wojewódzki sąd administracyjny) in Warsaw ruled that the decision of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki to hold the elections only by postal vote on 10 May 2020 was a "gross violation of the law and was issued without [legal] grounds" and violated article 7 of the Polish Constitution, article 157, paragraph 1 and article 187, paragraph 1 and 2 of the Electoral Code. He was sworn in as Prime Minister of Poland on 11 December, immediately appointing Szydło as his deputy. Yet, even as Poland moved increasingly in the direction of the autocratic “illiberal” democracy established by Viktor Orbán in Hungary, the Polish economy continued to hum admirably. Das Kabinett Morawiecki II bildet seit der Vereidigung am 15. While pursuing his education, Morawiecki also began his professional career in 1991. [23], At the Munich Security Conference on 17 February that year, Morawiecki said "it is not going to be seen as criminal to say that there were Polish perpetrators, as there were Jewish perpetrators, as there were Russian perpetrators, as there were Ukrainian perpetrators, not only German perpetrators. Mateusz Morawiecki was born 20 June 1968 in Wrocław, southwest Poland, to Kornel Morawiecki, physicist and Fighting Solidarity leader, and his wife Jadwiga. Get a Britannica Premium subscription and gain access to exclusive content. [30][31][32][33], As other Visegrád Group leaders, Morawiecki opposes any compulsory EU long-term quota on redistribution of migrants. His career up until 2015 was centred on the world of banking. Mateusz Jakub Morawiecki [maˈtɛuʃ jakub mɔraˈvjɛt͡ski] (* 20. From November 1998, Morawiecki worked for Bank Zachodni WBK from the Santander Group, where he was promoted to the position of managing director and eventually chairman. 90,353 talking about this. Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was reacting to five days of massive protests across Poland against a ruling Thursday by the country's top court that declared abortions due to … In that capacity he helped negotiate conditions for Poland’s accession to the European Union (EU). In the meantime, Morawiecki served as deputy director of the Accession Negotiations Department in the Committee for European Integration in 1998. In March 2016, Mateusz Morawiecki announced that he had joined the Law and Justice party. [10], On 16 November 2015, President Andrzej Duda appointed Mateusz Morawiecki as both Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Development in the Cabinet led by Prime Minister Beata Szydło. Nationwide protests have been held in Poland since the country’s top court ruled that abortions due to fetal congenital defects are unconstitutional ... Polish PM Mateusz Morawiecki … Poland Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki (File | AP) By AFP. [8] In 1998, as deputy director of the Accession Negotiations Department in the Committee for European Integration, he oversaw and participated in numerous areas, including finance, of the negotiations for Polish accession to the European Union. "Rażąco narusza prawo, wydana bezpodstawnie, "Forum Ekonomiczne w Krynicy-Zdroju. From 1998 to 2001 he was a member of the supervisory boards of the Wałbrzych Power Company, Dialog (a local telephone-service provider), and the Industrial Development Agency. Finance Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, a former bank chairman in the Santander Group, was tapped Thursday to take charge of the Polish government as it gears up … [43] He has also received other distinctions from economic clubs, universities, publishing houses, and cultural institutions. Juni 1968 in Breslau) ist ein polnischer Politiker (PiS) und seit dem 11. In 2015, he became the recipient of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta. Ring in the new year with a Britannica Membership, https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mateusz-Morawiecki. On 11 December 2017, Morawiecki was nominated as Prime Minister of Poland (premier) by the chief staff of the ruling Law and Justice party. Zuvor war er stellvertretender Ministerpräsident sowie Wirtschafts- und Finanzminister im Kabinett von Beata Szydło. Many pundits believed that Kaczyński was convinced that the polished, cosmopolitan Morawiecki was better equipped to win favour with the EU than Szydło, who remained in the cabinet as deputy prime minister. [44][45], Two of his aunts married Jewish men and converted to Judaism. Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article. Polens Ministerpräsident Mateusz Morawiecki bekräftigt das Veto gegen den EU-Haushalt. A crisis like this can happen once every hundred years. November 2019 unter der Leitung von Mateusz Morawiecki die Regierung der Republik Polen.. Regierungsparteien He has been Prime Minister of Poland, since 11 December, 2017. In 2001 Morawiecki became a member of the management board of Bank Zachodni WBK, and in 2007 he was named the bank’s CEO. In the process, Morawiecki became fluent in German and English. Moreover, unemployment registered at an impressively low 7 percent. The interview was published on December 3, 2020. From 1998 to 2001 he sat on the supervisory boards of the Industrial Development Agency and the Electricity Board in Wrocław. WARSAW (Reuters) - Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said on Thursday he intends to take the European Union’s rule of law budgetary conditionality mechanism to the … Mateusz Morawiecki is the son of the recently deceased veteran anti-communist activist Kornel Morawiecki. In 1991 Morawiecki began work at Cogito Company and co-created two publishing firms, Reverentia and Enter Marketing-Publishing. [15][16], In December 2017, Jarosław Kaczyński, the Chairman of the Law and Justice party, declared that he no longer had confidence in Beata Szydło to be the party's prime ministerial candidate, in part due to perceived conflict between her and other European Union leaders. ", Poland appoints ex-banker with Jewish roots as prime minister, Ministers of Sport and Tourism of the Republic of Poland, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mateusz_Morawiecki&oldid=997576620, Knights of the Order of Polonia Restituta, Recipients of Cross of Freedom and Solidarity, Short description is different from Wikidata, Wikipedia articles with PLWABN identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Economist, historian, magazine editor, politician, This page was last edited on 1 January 2021, at 05:50. Born in Wrocław, Morawiecki became heavily engaged in anti-communist movements in his youth. With Frank Emmert, he co-authored the first textbook on The Law of the European Union published in Poland. [5], Morawiecki is an alumnus of the University of Wrocław (history, 1992), Wrocław University of Technology (1993), Wrocław University of Economics (Business Administration, 1995), the University of Hamburg (European Law and Economic Integration, 1995–97), and the University of Basel (European Studies, 1995–97). Mateusz Morawiecki z nagrodą Człowieka Roku", "Oto rodzina Morawieckiego. Dezember 2017 Ministerpräsident der Republik Polen (Kabinett Morawiecki I und II). [11] (This took place soon after Mateusz Morawiecki's father, Kornel Morawiecki, was elected to Poland's lower chamber of the parliament[12] and the Law and Justice party won the 2015 parliamentary elections.). [2], Morawiecki was active in the Polish anti-communist movement since age 12[3] when he helped in copying underground political literature. The Times of Israel also reported in 2017 that Morawiecki has "Jewish roots", however this claim has not been confirmed. His political activism resulted not only in his arrest but also in him being beaten by communist security officers. [13], As Finance Minister, Morawiecki outlined an ambitious "Plan for Responsible Development", known colloquially as the "Morawiecki Plan", aimed at stimulating economic growth and raising revenues for generous government plans, including “Family 500+” child benefits for all families with two or more children. [29], In March 2018 a new Polish law took effect, banning nearly all commerce on Sundays, with supermarkets and most other retailers closed Sundays for the first time since liberal shopping laws were introduced in the 1990s. In 2013 he was awarded the Cross of Freedom and Solidarity. Andrzej Duda stalled judicial reform, but revised legislation that had been framed by Duda was adopted by the Sejm in December 2017. Poland is already under an EU investigative procedure over … In 1998 he began his career as banker, working from that year until 2015 for Bank Zachodni WBK, a Polish bank owned by the Spanish financial group Banco Santander, SA. In 1995 he completed an internship at Deutsche Bundesbank in credit analysis, financial restructuring, banking supervision, and financial market supervision. As prime minister Morawiecki strove to advance his party’s advocacy of traditional family-oriented Roman Catholic values, but he continued to meld that conservative agenda for Polish society with a more typically leftist approach to the economy that further expanded social welfare programs that particularly benefited the PiS’s rural and small-town base. From 1996 to 2004 Morawiecki lectured at the Wrocław University of Economics, and from 1996 to 1998 also at the Wrocław University of Technology. In 1996–97 he conducted banking and macroeconomic research at the University of Frankfurt. Its attempts to reform the judiciary by removing standing judges and bringing the appointment of new judges under legislative control were criticized at home (with large street protests) and abroad. Mateusz Morawiecki was born 20 June 1968 in Wrocław, southwest Poland, to Kornel Morawiecki, physicist and Fighting Solidarity leader, and his wife Jadwiga. Mateusz Morawiecki, (born June 20, 1968, Wrocław, Poland), Polish banker, economist, and politician who became prime minister of Poland in December 2017. Owing at least partly to the efforts of Morawiecki, who became the finance minister and who joined the PiS in 2016, the Polish economy thrived during the two years of the government led by Szydło, growing at an annual rate of 4 percent in 2017. Last month, Poland’s Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki attacked the bloc, arguing other countries, could be affected by the “mechanism” set up by the EU. He sat on policy committees at many institutions of higher education.