At least 70 cities and municipalities have already launched their participatory budgets. Their number will grow since they are drivers of popularity and the local elections are scheduled as early as this autumn. Therefore, once...
Public-private partnership investment projects are still few and far between in Poland, and most tenders called for projects to be launched under this formula end up in a fiasco. Without incentive from the government and without...
The economic slowdown has inflamed the dispute between the Ministry of Finance (MF), which is responsible for the state budget, and local governments. Mutual accusations are the same: handing out deductions lavishly and in a...
As compared to the current EU budget, Poland is to receive EUR 5 billion more in the budget for 2014-2020, but the funds will be more difficult to use. Local governments will benefit most from it if only they manage to master...
They were still a curiosity not so long ago, and now we hear about civic budgets regularly: 300 proposals for the civic budget in Radom, 1 200 proposals in Chorzów, 700 in Elbląg, more than 240 in Wroclaw. This...
Government advertising campaigns tend to put people to sleep, but a startling exception is the ongoing campaign to boost investment in eastern Poland, with US economics commentator Matt Yglesias calling it the “The Greatest...
Not only the state and extraction companies count on shale gas. Also gminas where drilling started count on higher revenues of local budgets. At the current level of extraction of 4.4 billion cubic metres of gas, gminas gain PLN...
Local governments have abandoned their dreams of the cadastral tax for now, but they are still after higher revenues from land and buildings.They came up with geographical tax progression in order to save the budgets of communes...