Following are news stories, press reports and events to watch that may affect Poland's financial markets on Friday. ALL TIMES GMT (Poland: GMT + 1 hour):
TAXES
Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo, economy minister Mateusz Morawiecki and finance minister Pawel Szalamacha will hold a debate on Poland's planned supermarket tax at 1000 GMT.
EURO
Starting from Jan 1, the Polish government no longer includes a post of a euro plenipotentiary and will not publish the monthly convergence reports, daily Rzeczpospolita reported.
ORANGE OPL.WA
The Polish unit of the French telecoms group Orange ORAN.PA expects charges related to its labour agreements to cut its fourth-quarter gross profit by 92 million zlotys ($23.1 million), the unit said on Thursday. will spend over 10 billion zlotys ($2.50 billion) on military investments, but plans to verify the spending's efficiency, daily Rzeczpospolita reported.
Poland's foreign affairs minister Witold Waszczykowski told daily Nasz Dziennik that the planned NATO bases in Poland would be of a rotary character.
COAL MINING
Polish mining gear producer Kopex KPX.WA , as well as Australian miner Prairie Mining PDZ.AX and the unit of its German rival HMS Bergbau HMUG.DE plan to invest in new coal mines in Poland, daily Rzeczpospolita reported.
PZU PZU.WA
Former deputy treasury minister as well as director at the World Bank and Bank of America Merrill Lynch (N:BAC), Michal Krupinski will probably be the new chief executive at Eastern Europe's largest insurer, the state-controlled PZU PZU.WA , daily Gazeta Wyborcza reported.
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