WARSAW: Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydło announced on Wednesday that a Polish National Foundation will be established to promote Poland abroad. PGNiG Management Board President Piotr Woźniak, PM Beata Szydło, Treasury Minister Dawid Jackiewicz. Photo: PAP/Radek Pietruszka
“The Polish National Foundation will be building the brand named Poland,” said the Polish PM at a press conference at the Warsaw Stock Exchange on Wednesday. According to her, the Foundation will aim to show abroad “A beautiful, friendly Poland, a Poland that’s worth visiting, an ambitious Poland. A Poland with immense opportunities, great people and great ideas.”
Treasury Minister Dawid Jackiewicz stressed that the idea for the foundation is not only to react when bad, unfair or stereotypical information appears about Poland, but to reach out with a positive message.
The Foundation, with a planned annual budget amounting to PLN 100 million (EUR 22.7 mln/USD 25 mln), will be funded by state-owned companies and by public donations. A letter of intent to establish the Foundation was signed on Wednesday by 17 of the largest Polish state-owned companies. The authorities plan to begin the registration process of the foundation this summer.
