Increasing Poland's improvement opportunities in the coming years requires fresh reasoning about power. It should make it possible to realize the online nature of the governance and governance of today's world. Cooperation networks of various global actors – countries, organisations, institutions – make the most crucial decisions (from Introduction).
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Façade power
– It is hard to disagree with the increasingly expressed opinion that in order to overcome the improvement difficulties of Poland, a state's sanctions are needed. It is precisely from the position of a well-functioning country that long-term opportunities and threats of the country should be visible.
– A fundamental state improvement is needed to destruct the gap between the rationality of micro and macro scale. We have 550 000 officials today, which means there are far more of them than in communist times. Many structures are unnecessary, specified as districts that artificially complicate the decision-making process to justify their existence. Above all, the structures of the Polish top-level administration are not tailored to the EU structures, which makes it hard to effectively represent our interest in the European Union. Polish officials must become part of the EU information cycle. They will then be able to respond rapidly to signals from there and safe national interests in the process of building different Community solutions there. They must be able to shoot at our point of view before a given proposal becomes a decision, that is, erstwhile politicians are allowed to make final decisions.
Only our officials, being inside the pillars of EU policies, can control their EU counterparts on an ongoing basis from below. They can besides negociate the procedures prepared in the EU administration sufficiently early and professionally. For us, the full decision-making process “is going” by politicians. In the grey area between the EU and our administration, the Office of the European Integration Committee is working, which administratively allocates to the ministries the tasks of Brussels. We're wasting our time. We're wasting our powers. The Europeanisation of government administration requires designation that present an authoritative has the power of independent decisions and that the function of politics is shrinking. It must besides be understood that our interests are harmed by the chaotic way we interact with the Union, specified as putting directives in the modes of our parliament – like a bill, which creates illegal, chaotic, internally contradictory law. There's a jungle in which law firms are quarterbacks.
We so request a very urgent improvement of the state, which would at the same time make a multi-layered and truly professional administration. In the meantime, we can inactive see the stubborn state.
This besides happened during the regulation of Mark Belka, and the way was to manipulate during competitions for top positions in civilian service in ministries and state offices. The SLD installed its people wherever it could, and their qualifications are often, unfortunately, very low.
– Mistakes made during the construction of the state after 1990 made, as you say: there is no power in Poland anymore.
Technically, we inactive have her, but she's out of control. All he cares about is his business and his own survival. But we don't have a strategy of governance. Power is incapable to solve the most serious problems. Hence drifting and cumulative problems, not solving them.
– Our power is façade in the sense that we see to the bare eye that it does not manage in key areas: the public sphere, administration, justice. Does this pose a threat to a certain denationalisation of our territory in a globalised world?
– A country losing power and influence in its area possibly poses a large threat. In order not to fall apart, he must be able to keep any sense of the full for people and act as a mention point for them. However, it must appear in any symbolic discourse, including democratic discourse, but with awareness of its limits. The state dimension must no longer be confined solely to conventional rituals and juggling electoral slogans. Today, the state is primarily the art of "penetration", that is, the ability to bring the interest of the community represented into the mechanisms of decisions taken in its territory and, increasingly, beyond, for example, in the EU.
National countries are facing immense challenges today. They request to change their structures to keep a certain degree of power in an era of expanding global business influence on governance. First of all, they are no longer a compact political entity, but a very complex network of structures with professionals and professionals. In addition, the countries besides combine isolated fragments and make cross-state webs or correspondence and co-operating systems. In particular, countries specified as Poland must be able to fit effectively into the webs of transnational structures, in order to find ways to accomplish their interests.
In our case, the strategical analysis centre should play a key role, which would be able to coordinate the process of Poland's entry into broader European policies. Our civilian service, which, working in the national competence bands, should become part of the EU administration. Thanks to this, the state can be able, through its officials, to constantly control whether Polish interests are respected in the webs of European power. You should be careful in them. EU bureaucrats are trying to make a new, supra-state model of loyalty understood as a counterweight to national "self-isms". For example, they usage the argument of ‘professionality’ of their decisions. However, our country should be consolidated adequate so that it can itself establish the boundary conditions of its national interest in EU structures. This will depend on the quality of our staff and the effectiveness of monitoring what is happening in the Union. So it is essential to make a professional, transparent, honest state capable of Europeanised public governance...
- ...Yeah, but it's not working.
– It doesn't come out due to the fact that there's inactive no awareness of the means we can use, or even the goals we want to accomplish as a collective. 1 cannot see the key elements of the state that give it its strength.
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State incapacity
– Why was there no strong, self-conscious state after 1990?
– As I mentioned earlier, politicians were reluctant to admit the boundaries of their direct power, and in addition they did not have a imagination of the country's improvement for respective years ahead. Most of them do not know the categories of reasoning and knowing that elude common concepts. The thing is, today, governance and related economical and organization issues are besides complicated to be understood by common concepts. Here we request to operate in deeper formulas, have cognition of the experiences of different countries, economical history, so as not to make the same mistakes.
It must besides be understood that the same solutions and institutions can have different consequences in different countries and at different times. A distance to proposals coming from abroad is besides necessary, due to the fact that they are usually motivated by peculiar interests.
At the same time, we request to realize the logic of organization forms, the fresh European Union network, and to look at transformation as a transition from 1 structure to another alternatively than as a decision from 1 point symbolically to another. Today, first of all, steering is important. The aim is to make specified institutions and associations between them, so that the strategy as a full develops without unduly burdening certain social groups with the optimal usage of its own assets.
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Human Power or Structure Power
– You have already mentioned that we are having difficulty knowing today's Union. It seems to me that we have real problems, at least, with the assessment of the meaning of this full EU bureaucratic device that we hate, and the people in the West are arrogant of it.
– Today's Europe is primarily a set of abstract policies, procedures and mechanisms of power, understood as the regular negotiation of pragmatic solutions that guarantee the Community's ongoing functioning.
On the another hand, we see different EU procedures, directives as a nuisance, boring thing. We do not realize that they bring a certain value, that they are actually a way of solving real social problems in specified a complex structure as the Union.
We have problems knowing even the crises in the EU's typical network structures. We usage hierarchical reasoning with a linear concept of causality. The sign of the crisis is not presently exceeding the critical value for 1 indicator (e.g. inflation). The crisis occurs erstwhile our webs of management at besides many points are approaching the boundaries set by their shore conditions. In addition, the crisis occurs in the absence of compensatory interconnections, due to the fact that they then multiply and are transmitted into another management systems.
Furthermore, our politicians do not realize that civilian service is essential to the success of our presence in the EU and so do not change its structures. It could implement EU law, but it could besides better defend our interests in the Union than politicians themselves.
– Recently, any parties have already talked about the request for changes in civilian service.
"The proposals of the Citizens' Platform or the Law and Justice should go further. They are moving towards concentration, or regrouping elements of power, but mainly in the sphere of politics. On the another hand, they do not talk adequate about the request to bring our administration into line with EU bureaucracy. I am afraid that they are incapable to realize and accept the autonomous function of professional civilian service – mainly the top-level administration – in building a viable state that could decision more effectively in the EU space. I feel they have a problem determining how much real power is already in the hands of the administration and how much in politics. I believe that the most "revolutionary" group here is civilian service. She's the 1 who knows how much we lose in the current outdated governance structures. But the officials don't ask.
