The objective of the project was to strengthen civic control over the public finance sector. As part of the project we collected, organized, shared and analysed statistical data on public finance in Poland over 2004-2016. We have also created an interactive web application showing public spending on various categories. Data gathered within the project and the application were disseminated among NGOs and citizens to support watchdog activities. Public administration was given an information how to share data on public finance in more transparent way. The product of the project was a set of five publications on the situation of public finance in Poland with specific areas of interest such as: transparency and accessibility of data on public finance, the evolution of public sector’s revenues and expenditures since Poland’s accession to the EU, the comparison of public finance situation in Poland and other EU member states, and the detailed analysis of the state budget for 2016.
The project was a part of the Citizens for Democracy program, which was funded from the EEA Funds.
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The draft Polish budget for 2016 was prepared in unusual conditions. It was originally adopted in September 2015 by the coalition government of the Civic Platform (PO) and the Polish People’s Party (PSL). When Law and Justice (PiS) seized power, a new draft budget was prepared, yet in many respects it was similar to the draft made by the previous coalition government.
The growth dynamics of foreign debt and the share of foreign investors in sovereign Polish debt has been unusually high in recent years. According to Eurostat data, at the end of 2014 Poland was ranked 11th in the EU in terms of the share of non-residents’ holdings of government debt.
On 24th of November 2015 at the Institute for Structural Research took place a seminar about the fiscal transparency. The meeting was organized by Centre for Eastern Studies within the project „V4 Civil Servants Mobility Program – Focus Ukraine”.
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