The Polish government is working on a new economic plan to cut red tape, reform the public sector and restart privatisations, with growth forecast to hit 6 per cent this year.

The government hopes its programme will sow the seeds for the return of a million Poles who have emigrated in recent years, and improve the administration's reputation in European business circles.

"We are trying to change the way we are perceived in Europe by focusing more on the economy," said Pawel Krupinski, undersecretary of state at the ministry of the treasury.

The government plans to reform the court system, cut taxes and simplify business bureaucracy.

"We have a great interest in business but we are less involved in business," Mr Krupinski said.

Since taking office in 2005, the national conservative Law and Justice (PiS) party has broken ties between officials and the business world that it said lead to corrupt privatisation of state assets in the 1990s.

An internal treasury investigation says companies secured artificially low price tags by bribing former communist officials.

As a result, the report says the treasury is still owed about €77 billion in privatisation revenue.

The treasury ministry says it hopes to avoid similar problems with the upcoming privatisation of Poland's energy sector by holding an open auction.

The economic proposals come after months of negative business headlines for the Polish government. It clashed with the European Commission last April over Italian bank Unicredito's takeover of a second Polish bank. Meanwhile, the planned privatisation of the Polish stock exchange caused concern last week after the treasury minister suggested that shares be offered exclusively to Polish investors.

Mr Krupinski brushed off the plan of his boss, which would breach EU guidelines, as "just one option". "We respect EU law doesn't give preference to one state," he said.

The 26-year-old Krupinski, apparently destined for higher political office in Warsaw, is just one of many bright young things from Poland's baby-boom generation to be hired by Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the prime minister.

Too young to have been involved in the communist system so despised by Mr Kaczynski, these young recruits are willing soldiers in his war on those he believes benefited unfairly from Poland's transformation process.

The economic plan is an indication that Mr Kaczynski's party wants to end the political crises of the last few months, when it clashed regularly with its two political partners, an extreme-right Catholic party and a left-wing populist farmers' party.

The Polish economy has remained immune to the recent political tribulations. Although unemployment remains the highest in the EU at 15 per cent, growth hit a nine-year high of 5.8 per cent last year as the EU structural funds began to flow.

"We don't want to just spend the structural funds, but invest in know-how. Ireland is our model for how it built technical universities and invested in education," said Mr Krupinski who, like many Poles, knows people who have moved to Ireland to work.

"A former employee of my father is in Ireland, and she told me, 'Ireland is a country for young ambitious people'. I would like to hope that in a couple of years when they come back, people will see here a more fair country where they can achieve their objectives."