In a 4-hour meeting held yesterday, prime minister Donald Tusk, Poland’s Finance Minister Jacek Rostkowski and the government’s junior coalition partner’s leader, Waldemar Pawlak, again failed to reach agreement on pension reform. Pawlak said before the meeting that they would focus on “parameters of possible agreements,” but he said these would boil down the right to choose an early retirement that would make possible an acceptable standard of living. “These are the foundations of a sound compromise,” he said. The talks are set to continue.
