Tuesday 6 September marks the beginning of the ‘Polish Davos’ in Karpacz, i.e. the 31st Economic Forum, the largest economic conference in Central and Eastern Europe. The event will be attended by more than 5,000 participants from Europe, North America and Asia. It will include members of the Polish government: prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki, deputy prime ministers Piotr Gliński and Henryk Kowalczyk, and the heads of the ministry of health Adam Niedzielski, ministry of finance Magdalena Rzeczkowska, family and social policy Marlena Maląg, infrastructure Andrzej Adamczyk and education and science ministry- Przemysław Czarnek.

The Forum will feature over 300 debates, many thematic conferences and accompanying events. The motto of the three-day Forum is ‘Europe facing new challenges’.

The 31st Economic Forum will begin with the presentation of a report by the Warsaw School of Economics and the Economic Forum. As the organisers point out, the report “is intended to enable business leaders, representatives of government, local administration and the third sector to make more effective decisions in times of enormous global turbulence caused first by the COVID-19 pandemic and, from February 2022, by the war in Ukraine and related crises”.

The report will be discussed in a special session by Zygmunt Berdychowski, Chairman of the Programme Council of the Economic Forum, Paweł Borys, Chairman of the Board of the Polish Development Forum, and Piotr Wachowiak, Rector of the Warsaw School of Economics.

The Forum will also be attended by the Chairman of the Law and Justice Party, Jarosław Kaczyński, who will participate in a panel discussion on ‘Realism and values in politics’.

Also, a former Croatian President Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Ukraine’s Minister of Agricultural Policy and Food Mykola Solskyi and Ukraine’s Verkhovna Rada MP Kira Rudyk are expected to visit Karpacz forum.

Adrian Andrzejewski