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The Polish billionaire, who advises the government in the field of deregulation, has distanced himself from comparing with Elon Musk and refused claims that he is interested in a political career, or that he is trying to imitate the American tycoon in his efforts to drastically reduce the number of work places in the public sector.
Rafał Brzoska, CEO of InPost, which operates a network of package mailboxes, told the Financial Times that he admires Musk’s business skills, but comparing the so -called US government office (DOGE) – a project that leads Musk – is disproportionate.
Tusk sets the cats
“Elon Musk as an entrepreneur, and how he built one company after another, I really admire, but our activities cannot be compared to Doga,” Brzoska said. He said that Musk was directly subject to the US President, while he could only give recommendations to the Polish legislators. In February, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk appointed Brzoska as the head of the advisory team for streamlining business regulation.
Tusk promised to take “cats” and prepare about 120 draft laws to eliminate “barriers and unnecessary regulations” inspired by the designs of the brake working group. “Polish business is our national treasure,” Tusk said on Thursday. “It is high time to free him from a tangle of absurd regulations.”
The recommendations of the Brzosk include simplifying the requirements for filing tax returns for businesses and streamlining the approval of regulations in the defense sector so that domestic weapons manufacturers can easier to win public tenders of the armed forces. Further measures focus on improving public services, such as a reservation of medical examinations or access to courtrooms.
Brzoska has been built by InPost by using the expansion of e -commerce and offered consumers more flexibility of delivery through automated parcel boxes. He said that Polish public services must now catch up with digitization and deregulation.
Polish patients regularly encounter delays in congested public health. According to Brzosk, the centralized online reservation system would significantly improve its efficiency, as doctors would simply move the term if the patient did not occur. “In our health care, billions could save,” he said.
Voice of private business
Compared to the United States, Poland already has a ‘thin’ bureaucracy that struggles with outdated regulations and a significant amount of unexpected applications. “I can imagine how frustrating it is to ask someone who asks for permission to present five or ten different documents, all printed, just because they are the rules,” he said.
The Brzosko Working Group consisted of other entrepreneurs, academics and former officials and will end its activities in June. His statements came at a time when Musk promised to devote “significantly” less time of Doga and instead “much more” to drive Tesla, after his car manufacturer announced the lowest quarterly profits since the end of 2020.
While Musk’s recent political activities have spread to Europe, and including the support of the German extreme right, Brzoska denied that it would have political ambitions. He said he accepted this task because he perceived it as an opportunity to be a “voice of private business” and not as a permanent job for the Tusk government.
However, the reduction of bureaucracy has become the topic of the campaign in the Polish presidential election, which will be held next month. The candidate of Tusk’s Party Rafał Trzaskowski leads in the surveys and has included a promise in his program that two Polish regulations will cancels every article transposed into national law for each EU legislation.
National interests before profit
“If we want to seriously fight the excessive regulation of the economy, we should only accept what is necessary,” said Trzaskowski last month at a meeting. If Trzaskowski wins the two -wheel elections, which will take place on May 18 and 1, June, Tusk should finally be able to enforce the legislative changes blocked by the resigning President Andrzej Duda, the right -wing opposition party candidate Law and Justice (PIS).
Tusk recently turned away from his protrh’s views. He responded to the US President Donald Trump’s customs war by challenging the “repolonization” of the economy. He said that the state -controlled energy companies should prefer national interests over profit, which was reflected in their shares.
Trzaskowski’s right -wing rival Karol Nawrocki welcomed Tusk’s turn of 180 degrees on economic nationalism, but indicated that it was an oportunism. “First Poland! Always, not just before the elections,” he wrote on the social network X.
Brzoska said that his efforts to deregulate was not motivated by any political calculations before the elections. “For me, the real measure is how many of our proposals will reach parliament and how many of them the president will sign [ako zákony].“
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