Marek Belka Quotes

The Holocaust committed by the Nazis turned this country, where most of the European Jews used to live and where their culture used to flourish, into a massive grave. This is why initiatives to revive Jewish culture in Poland is so important.
Marek Belka

Live, Important, Country

I would not go so far as to say that we are completely changing our outlook.
Marek Belka

Far, Changing, Outlook

Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.
Marek Belka

Whether, Situation, Economic

Should that worse scenario materialize, then most probably our propensity to increase interest rates will be weaker.
Marek Belka

Interest, Worse, Increase

We continue to be vigilant.
Marek Belka

Continue, Vigilant

We do see significant signs of a slowdown, in the economy worldwide.
Marek Belka

Economy, Signs, Worldwide

And in the last sentence I would like also to mention that Poland is one of the countries with which the United States has run strategic dialogues since last year.
Marek Belka

Last, Year, Since

As far as the international issues are concerned, the most important thing is the state of the transatlantic relationships, Euro-Atlantic relationships: how to develop them and how to strengthen them further.
Marek Belka

Important, Far, State

I still have five years to the end of my term. There are many candidates. There'll be a problem if it's supposed to be a European or someone from the emerging countries, the so-called BRICS. This will be decided, but please don't think Poland has anything to say about it.
Marek Belka

End, Someone, Problem

It's not about the pace, it's about the direction we've set. The pace is of course a function of many factors, including the magnitude of the supply shock. But what's probably more important is the probability of the supply shock translating into sustainable embedded inflation.
Marek Belka

Important, Direction, Function

No matter who becomes chancellor, Poland and Germany will remain neighbours, strategic partners, not only within the European Union, but also world partners, and I don't believe anything could change in our relations.
Marek Belka

Change, Matter, Union

Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
Marek Belka

Against, Means, Few

To the contrary, when you look at projections, both Polish and international, we can expect some slowing down of the rate of growth in the coming year, 2012. But of course these are projections.
Marek Belka

Down, Year, Both

We take our international responsibilities very seriously and will not withdraw our troops from Iraq... Otherwise, the victims of terror in Madrid will have died in vain.
Marek Belka

Seriously, Died, Iraq

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically.
Marek Belka

Down, Reason, Growing

With the sugar market hysteria, the people are obviously worried and expect higher inflation. When this hysteria subsides, which we're probably observing, then I hope that people will also get less worried about the future of inflation.
Marek Belka

Hope, Future, Less

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Nationality: Polish

Type: Economist

Born: January 9, 1952

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