An absurd Polish law is banishing fully qualified people to retirement, headlines Dziennik Gazeta Prawna.

The law is a loss to the budget, costing Poland 20 billion zloty in income tax annually.

Prosecutors, soldiers, policemen, professors and attorneys have to retire early. As a result the percentage of working people in the age bracket 55-64 is 32% in Poland, compared to 70% in Sweden and a general EU 46%.

Attorneys and professors are in the worst situation. Once 70 years old they must retire. Policemen are forced to retire after 30 years of service, while soldiers upon reaching 60 years of age. This is a paradox writes the daily, Poles retire when reaching 59.3 years of age whereas in the whole EU the average is 61 and four years more in Sweden.

Gazeta Wyborcza publishes a recent poll by the PBS DGA  showing that support for the opposition Law and Justice is falling below 30% while the junior coalition party, the Polish Peasant Party is still below the parliamentary threshold.

And Polska The Times writes that diabetes can be cured through surgery. A team of doctors from a hospital in Gdansk conducted an operation on a patient with diabetes. They applied a method used in bariatric operations, that is surgical treatment of obesity. It was the first surgery of that kind in Poland, and its effects showed that the level of sugar in the patient’s blood never exceed the norm. The doctors still research how this rather simple surgery liquidates diabetes but for million people suffering from the illness it is a light in the tunnel. To undergo such a surgery the patient has to fulfill certain requirements. His illness cannot be longer than10 years, he cannot be obese and over 65 winds Polska The Times.  (ab)