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peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]

Yawn... I would order a survey to estimate how many fans can give it up because of crap spread by this jerk and then sue him for compensations.

He is the ex-captain of England. You can be certain the words "Nazi, Poland, Dangerous" will be top of the news in every country on the planet.

That will be Poland's image, a Dangerous Nazi country. It currently in 325 newspapers/sites.
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Don't go to Poland ... because you could end up coming back in a coffin [313]

Sol Campbell warns fans to stay away from Euro 2012

Uefa said it was working with both Poland and Ukraine to ensure the safety of travelling teams and their fans.

But Mr Campbell had this advice for fans thinking of travelling to Euro 2012: "Stay at home, watch it on TV. Don't even risk it... because you could end up coming back in a coffin."

Panorama also filmed matches in fellow host-nation Poland, recording a chorus of anti-Semitic chanting and witnessing black football players enduring monkey chants from the terraces.

"Increasingly the positive thing about English football are the number of black and Asian fans that have been travelling and supporting England. I am concerned that they will be targeted by racists and fascists and anti-Semites in Poland and in Ukraine."

In Poland, Jonathan Ornstein of the Jewish Cultural Centre, said football hooligans in the country are stuck in the past.

This deserves its own thread to discuss the nation of Poland in relation to Euro.
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Will EURO 2012 be a proud moment for Poland and its people or set back Poland 20 years? [86]

Alleged problem.

Mud sticks.

From henceforth any complaints about using the term 'Polands Death camps', or reference to Poland's nazi past will fall on deaf ear.

It will be "Poland, a Nazi country in denial about it past".

Poland's football representatives have show the country for what it really is - a nasty bunch of racist animals.

funny though that all examples of racist (famous Roman salute) come from Ukraine.

Which genius decide we wanted to be closely associated with them? Really funny. You think anyone from outside Poland will differentiate?

Brazil have the world cup, to make sure their image was presented right they sent in the army - in tanks - to pacify the Favela's. What did Poland and Ukranie do about this?
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

what kind of business?

Software development

Interesting overview of Poland up to 2022

rabotransact.com/rtpub-etip-portlet/images/SP1107rma%20Poland%20up%20to%202022%20%20Fish%20nor%20Fowl_tcm43-147222_tcm79-147335.pdf
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

My person experience is to always make lots of money, ever since I left university. Hardly a independent position to judge the rest of the world, so I use third party sources.
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Why don't you reply to WB's scenario he put to you

Because its impossible for me to say, I've never had a job where I've worked for someone else. I've only been self employed all my life and thats what I'm doing now, setting up a business in Poland.

The boys had a similar long term bet in the property thread.

Aren't you on the losing side of that as well?

that doesnt make sense, what exactly are you trying saying? I think ive got it, just need conformation.

Yes, it was gibberish.

I meant to say Poland's productivity will increase with its GDP. Spain and UK productivity is falling with its GDP.

These facts confirm that Poland's economy is booming as it reflected in its increasing GDP/productivity
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

List of countries by GDP (PPP) per hour worked

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_hour_worked

The title of this thread, Poland's economy is booming, will be reflected by Poland increasing productivity against countries like the UK, Spain's falling GDP. The chart will reflect Poland's increasing GDP and others relative decline.

why are so many people obviously lying that the economy is booming;

Can prove the Polish Government, the EU, the Polish and international media, the financial industry, the UN and every other international and national body are lying and that you and a couple of other crank pots on these forums are telling the truth?
peterweg   
28 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Don't worry, he just full of bullshit. he's an English troll who is only here to racially abuse Polish people. Doing it in a Forum full of non-Poles is just his way of saying 'I have no clue'. i doubt he has even been to Poland from his inaccurate comments.

Ohh shut up weg, you know absolutely nothing, stick to copying other peoples work with your links cos you really dont have a clue mate.

'Shut up', 'you don't have a clue', 'women of a certain age'

Maybe you should try put a reasoned argument instead of abusing everyone who doesn't agree you.

Description of Ad Hominem

Translated from Latin to English, "Ad Hominem" means "against the man" or "against the person."

The reason why an Ad Hominem (of any kind) is a fallacy is that the character, circumstances, or actions of a person do not (in most cases) have a bearing on the truth or falsity of the claim being made (or the quality of the argument being made).

peterweg   
27 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Funny that....

And everybody else, except for miserable gits who left Poland and is now scared he made a mistake

Still, steeper prices are not stopping Poles from spending - one of the reasons that the economy continues to outperform most of its EU counterparts. The government's statistical agency finds that retail sales grew by 13.7 per cent in Februarycompared to the same period a year earlier. The biggest gains came from non-specialised shops like supermarkets and hypermarkets, which saw sales grow by an annual 33.9 per cent.

The numbers should continue to be fairly solid for April, as Poles show no reluctance to cut back their Easter spending. Andrzej Falinski, head of the Polish Retail and Distribution Organisation, tells Rzeczpospolita that retailers expect an increase of Easter sales of about 5 per cent this year over 2011.

Poland: still defiant in the euro gloom

The Greek storm is buffeting the world's economy, but Poland has not yet fallen victim to the gloom. New industrial production numbers for April show a 2.9 per cent increase over the same period a year earlier.

Particularly strong were exports of things like chemicals, electronic products and machinery, all the sorts of products that are fed into the maw of German industry and which help make Germany the world's second exporter after China.

"Industry is not doing too badly, especially in areas producing for export," said Malgorzata Starczewska-Krzysztoszek, chief economist with Lewiatan, the Polish employers confederation.

The numbers look even better once seasonal factors are stripped out. Economists with Bre Bank calculated that seasonally adjusted industrial production expanded at a 5 per cent annual pace.

"We expect that Germany's strong exports will help sustain Poland's production exports, which could also be helped by the latest weakening of the zloty," wrote Paulina Ziembinska of Bre Bank.

blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/05/21/poland-still-defiant-in-the-euro-gloom
peterweg   
26 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

we should tell that to the people from spain, greece, ireland etc

Poland to sasha, this is about Poland....

those two are basically the same numb nuts.

No they are not. You refused to accept the opinion of someone (hague1cmaeron) because they didn't live in Poland.

You refused to accept the opinion of someone who does live in Poland (me), by declaring that I don't live in Poland.

Actually you are not going to accept anything,are you? this is you shouting your opinion and abusing anyone and anything that doesn't agree as rubbish.

Define a boom industry and answer the other question and i'll address the above.

Its the economy, not just specific businesses, all of them, as a collection.
peterweg   
26 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Its you who refused to accept statical figures and surveys using scientific methods.

Its you who refused to accept the opinions of other because they don't live here,

Its you who attempted to claim that I don't live in Poland and therefore my opinion is worthless

Your experience is what exactly? you have an overseas IT related income, anything else?

And its you who attempt to 'discredit' me (your term) with comments like this

Polands economy is booming, I can see it with my own eyes, so can others who are here.

What exactly is your evidence to disprove this?
peterweg   
26 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

As many have pointed out, if you take housing costs out of the equation, Poland isn't exactly an expensive country.

And many peoples housing costs are trivial due to the gifts of communism.

How does that work, you and your sister both with Poles?

Sorry, missed out 'in-law'

My sisters-in law'sboyfriend (the one who was given the flat) nearly had this done.
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Both your observations or interpretations seem very valid but juxtaposed from eachother (in my mind) and I'm having trouble rationalizing both ideas (the cost of living getting out of hand and the notion that the country is booming).

Each isn't mutually exclusive. UK is a rich country, its also expensive to live there. However, the richer you (i.e. your wages in your local currency) are the less the raw material cost for the things you want to live on and buy. The most important of these is energy- oil, gas , petrol, electricity becuase fundamentally everything is the cost of its energy use in production and delivery.

If your wage is low you have to spend a bigger proportion of your wage on the basics becuase a larger part of the cost is the commodity/energy cost.

If your wages are higher (in relation to dollars) and the cost of living higher you end up better off becuase the money you have left over after paying for basics is more 'powerful', plus the amount you spend on basics should be a smaller part of your wage.

Is it fair to say "Poland is booming?" Maybe it shouldn't be an all or nothing statement to begin with?

You are correct, its not. Milky is being disingenuous becuase he knows damn well Ireland went through the same process and it resulted in them have wages far higher than most of europe plus the ability to aford to buy property all over the world.

They totally ****** it up by joining the euro and the EU bankers didn't control it properly.. Even so the unemployment benift alone is a sign how well they have done from a boom like Poland is now going through.

Milky just wants Poland to stay poor so he can profit on property. Typical Irish (sorry Granma).
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

When you host a factory the wages get paid and the many various suppliers get paid. Overall the input in vastly more than the workers directly employed, often 4 workers outside for each directly employed with cars. Bottom line is the suppliers and resources to factories are usually local and make up the vast majority of the value of the items sold.

In the case of Ford, it injected around 10m billion dollars into Jaguar on top of the sales of billions over many years, p[lus it paid for the business to start with. It never saw any profit. The UK economy (suppliers), employees and tax many got everything Ford invested.

New jobs, tax revenues and general economic recovery - is, according to local authorities, the main benefit of such a large investment, which is the company's new factory in Koszkach Ikea in Orla.

The value of this investment is 140 million euros (627.2 million zł), of which the EU Programme Innovative Economy comes 145.7 million zł. Ultimately - to mid-2012 - has 250 people working here. Investor - Swedspan company which is a subsidiary of Ikea - already noted the work of 100 people. The investment in the evaluation of the Polish Information and Foreign Investment (PAIiIZ) was the largest in 2010, foreign investment in Poland.

Peter Selwesiuk, Mayor Orla, in which the plant is located, told PAP that you've seen the changes related to the investment company. This example. An increase in property prices, but they also have greater turnover. Are also created new jobs. According to him, it really impact of investments on the development of the municipality will be seen in a few years, when the budget will affect not only the property taxes (currently approx. 300 thousand. Zł per year), but also from the buildings. It may even be a few million dollars per year, with a budget of Orli at approx. 8 million zł.

Selwesiuk recalled that initially Ikea take into account seventeen locations in Poland. When asked about the situation in the municipality said that part of the land belonged to the state, the majority of private owners. As he said, the price for the property was excessive state above the real value.
He recalled that the problem was also their odrolnienie. "The state apparatus can not function in this way: the investor, the money, the location, and the state says we first earn on the sale of land (...), and then maybe odrolnimy, maybe not" - he added Selwesiuk. In his opinion, the problems of land decultivation delayed the construction of six months.
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There are local taxes etc for the site use. This factory will also change add straight onto Poland's GDP, reduce its balance of trade and add massive value to the raw materials, in addition to the millions in income taxes.
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Back on topic

DCT Gdańsk expected to join world's top ports

In the next two years DCT Gdańsk will find itself among the world's top 100 seaports, reported Puls Biznesu.

This is a result of the completion of the port's new €250 million cargo terminal, which will enable it to increase the number of containers from 650,000 a year to 900,000.

The port is also preparing a further investment to create a second terminal worth at least €250 million. The new terminal is planned to begin operating by 2015, and once completed DCT Gdańsk will qualify as one of the top 30 ports in the world in terms of the amount of containers passing through it each year.

wbj.pl/article-59226-dct-gdansk-expected-to-join-worlds-top-ports.html

Ikea opens new factory in Poland

The Ikea Group has officially opened a factory in Koszki, Podlaskie voivodship, in northeastern Poland, Rzeczpospolita reported. The new plant includes a shop that produces ultra-thin furniture boards, as well as a sawmill and a foiling shop.

According to the Polish Information and Foreign Investment Agency the factory, which has been partially funded by the EU Innovative Economy Programme, was the largest foreign investment in Poland in 2010. Construction on the scheme lasted for nearly two years and cost €140 million.

Some 250 workers are currently employed in the facility.

Swedspan, an Ikea Group company, plans to build a technological center in Koszyki to design new materials for Ikea. The investment will cost €2.6 million.

wbj.pl/article-59225-ikea-opens-new-factory-in-poland.html
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

I think it's a fair observation and it should encourage us to ask if that is really "booming" and how long it'll last. Interpret that how you will.

75% of the money in a Plasma TV is the manufacturing. The profit that goes to Korea is probably 5%, which makes his comments irrelevant. The UK has a huge manufacturing base and a large amount of it is foreign, Ford lost Billions on Jaguar - Britain still got paid.

When it comes to personal attacks, you are not so innocent.

Almost every you say to me is a personal insult. Read your previous reply. I reply in kind to you.
peterweg   
25 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

If you don't pay, you lose the property. My sisters boyfriend (the one who was given the flat) nearly had this done.

Surely this is normal in apartments? How can you have an apartment block without service/community fees and an administration to enforce it?

This may also be an issue in London, if you read about the Stockwell roof collapse. Maybe a one off, or maybe a sign of the future.
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

^
Under that logic, no one could call into question anyone's opinion on a place unless they lived there.

You got it. The Irony is WB is questioning everyone else's credibility because they don't live in Poland and questioning whether I live in Poland.

His entire argument is that his person experience out weights not only all the scientific evidence but the personal experience of anyone else.

So now he's switched to Ad hominem attacks, the last stand of the desperate.

what kind of idiot chooses a screen name with two conservative leaders and then miss spells one of them?

peterweg   
25 May 2012
Life / Let`s compare prices of services and products in Poland [359]

You are probably correct, I've not seen the inside of more than a dozen blocks in Poland so its obviously given me a skewed impression. has there been any sign of building collapsing in Poland as the 10 years is nearly up, maybe this work is on going. Pre-war buildings are having a lot of major work, post war there is little sign of it so far.

I couldn't understand this though.

In Krakow you have to pay toward the building maintenance fund (3000pln per year in our case) as well as all the other costs, I find it hard to believe this isn't normal.
peterweg   
25 May 2012
News / Poland's Economy Is Booming! The EU's Success Story? [711]

Well thats on topic, given the fact that his opinion on the state of the economy is in direct contrast to others who are living here.

WB said here he returned to the UK a year ago. What is it WB?

Poles in the UK not a problem as far as i can tell

I guess it must suck to spend 5 years struggling in Poland, only to return to a UK that is facing 10 years of depression and falling economy. And they be told the country you have just left is the new tiger economy of the EU.

It would probably make you irrationally aggressive and bitter to the messengers. Maybe rather reluctant to accept any evidence highlighting the issue.