Until recently Poland was heralded in the EU as a remarkable success story. It joined the club in 2004 and since then its status and importance were growing till 2015, as testified by the election of Poland’s former Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the post of President of European Council in 2014. When joining the EU Poland’s GDP was below 40% of the EU average, it currently nears 75% and Poland was the only EU member state that avoided the recession that followed the 2008 global economic crisis whilst its economy expanded by 25% since then. Under the former government …read more
Source: Visegrad Insight