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February 25, 2021 Budget revenues remain stable despite pandemic and we have a surplus, Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński has told PAP. Rafał Guz/PAP
Budget revenues remain stable despite pandemic and we have a surplus, Finance Minister Tadeusz Kościński has told PAP.
According to the finance ministry data, January budget revenues reached PLN 40.7 billion (EUR 9.0 bln), up 1 percent year on year including PLN 39.2 bln (EUR 8.69 bln) in tax receipts, up by 5 percent in annual terms.
The budget surplus is PLN 6.6 billion (EUR 1.46 bln).
Value added tax (VAT) revenues reached ca. PLN 23.3 billion (EUR 5.16 bln) in January, up by 6.5 percent year on year.
Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Lithuanian who changed the course of US history
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Monument to Tadeusz Kościuszko in Krakow / Vida Press
What do we know about the Lithuanian general – known as Thaddeus Kosciuszko in America, Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland and Tadas Kosciuška in Lithuania – who changed the course of history in the United States?
The life story of Kościuszko was marked by love affairs as much as battlefield victories.
Kościuszko has the highest peak in Australia named after him and more than dozen of monuments in various US cities, but is relatively unknown at home.
“Several monographs dedicated to Kościuszko have been written in Poland, Ukraine and even Belarus, while our historians have not yet prepared such a synthesis,” says Juozas Skirius, a historian at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. “There have been some attempts, but so far without any tangible results.”
The Polish government will spend 30 percent of its allotment of EU post-pandemic recovery funds on Green Deal projects and 25 percent on a digital agenda, in line with EU recommendations, the finance minister has said.
Secrets of Polish Freemasons at the National Museum, Warsaw
cyrkiel 15 Sep 2014 #1
From now until January 11, the National Museum in Warsaw has a large exhibition about Freemasonry, focusing on its history in Poland. Freemasonry has been part of Poland s history for almost 300 years (some say longer). It has been a part of the lives of such amazing Poles as: Ignacy Jan Paderewski, Gabriel Narutowicz, general BolesÅaw Wieniawa-DÅugoszowski, Tadeusz KoÅciuszko, Jan Henryk DÄ browski, Józef Poniatowski, general Edward ÅmigÅy-Rydz, general MichaÅ Tokarzewski-Karaszewicz, Janusz Korczak, Cardinal Gabriel Podoski, Archbishop MichaÅ Poniatowski, Zygmunt KrasiÅski, Julian Ursyn Niemcewicz, Józef Ksawery Elsner, and possibly Adam Mickiewicz and general WÅadysÅaw Sikorski,, plus many other men (and women since most Polish lodges are mixed and there are also female lodges) to whom our society owes so much.