What I saw was a country still trying to recover after the fall of communism.
Communism has ended here 17 years ago. We were "struggling" somewhere during the early 90s - but this had been a long time ago.
Poland on the other hand is run by privatization. Everything that is flourishing is private or invested by some rich foreigner.Everything that is flourishing is private or invested by some rich foreigner.
We aren`t a leftie-communist state like Canada.
Also the foreign owned companies are a minority here, and actually some of the more succesfull corporations are partly state owned.
Two of my cousins have left for England to work because they say there is no money to be made in Poland. My mom's side of the family owns their own business and they keep complaining they have work but no good people to employ.
Yes - and this is how 2/3 of the "unemployment" in Poland looks like.
I think Poland will take a very long time to be just as organized as North America. They don't know better.
Really ? What do you say ? How interesting - please teach me the wonders of the "Canaduuh-organization-skills". I would be very eager to learn more about them.
Everyone who is young is fed up and leaving. No one is staying to fix what could be a great place to start a life. I also think many people just don't know what to do or how to start.
"Everyone" ?
Foreign investors on the other hand know exactly what to do.
Yes.. I understand we don`t have universities and my master degree in management is a fiction.
For example in downtown Szczecin a large beautiful mall called the Galaxy was recently built. Not sure if you are aware but stores on Sunday are completely closed. The downtown core is like a ghost town. However the only store or shopping facility that is open regular North American hours is the Galaxy mall.
Shops in Poland are alowed to be opened on Sunday (unlike i.e. in Germany).. and I`m sure that that particular store isn`t the only one in Szczecin that is being opened on that day.
Now you think to your self this investor, (who I heard is a Greek multimillionaire, saw a need and filled it.)
Well, you know, this is being called - capitalism. I`m also quite sure that he`s a bilionere and not a multimilionaire - we also have many such people living here.
Its obvious to me that polish people have the money and are spending it, but where are the investors to continue putting money into the economy for it to flourish
When it comes to foreign investments we`re receiving more investments than Russia which is many times bigger. We are also one of the worlds fastest growing eonomies.
Anyone had made any similar "discoveries" ?
..Frankly speaking some of the veiws that you are expressing are quite stupid - to say the least and can be very well classified under "entertainment".
Poland is no different than any other European or US economy - with the difference that we have lower taxes than in W.Europe as well as more complicated laws and things like setting up a business or clearing issues in front of a court usually take more time than it is the case in the US. We do not have anything similar to "equal" employment of etchnic groups and other minorities.. (which is a good thing). All of the companies here are working according to the same rules as anywhere else - when it comes to some issues they have more in some other cases less freedom than anywhere else in W. Europe or the US. The state on the other hand has a large influance on companies that deal in sectors that are of strategic value to national security (i.e. the energy sector, mining, railway transport and arms production)
The Financial institutions conected to the stock exchange have also slightly less financial instruments to work with than it`s the case i.e. in London so they use other instruments that they invent - but that is going to change in a year and in general those are only details.
We also follow more regulations than most part of the civilized world, but getting used in following various strict and often strange rules prepears many companies and people to operate in other countries and in the EU in general.
And those are actually the only differences between our economy and any other economy in the "old EU".
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And when it comes to the economic situation in Poland - I can only recommend reading ANY newspaper dealing with international economy and finances instead of writing some nonsense in this topic or as a matter of fact anywhere else.
