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New EU economic plan to disadvantage of Poland?UPDATE - The Europe 2020 strategy, announced by the European Commission today, raised concerns in Poland.
Jose Manuel Barroso has revealed that the 10-year EU plan for jobs and growth is meant to lead Europe away from financial crisis. In order to make the EU the world's leading and "competitive knowledge-based economy", the member states needed to work harder on coordinating economic policy, Barroso said, Wednesday.
"It is difficult to find a place for Poland in this strategy because it is written for the needs of the older member states," a high-ranking official at the Commission is quoted by Polish Radio's IAR agency as saying.
The strategy, to the dissatisfaction of the Polish government, is primarily focused on a knowledge-based, environmentally friendly economy. However, little space is devoted to EU cohesion policy - smoothing out the differences between rich and poor regions in the EU.
There is concern in Warsaw that the assumptions of the strategy will affect discussion on the shape of a new EU budget after 2013 and will be grounds for a reduction of expenditures - for example, for the construction of highways, something badly needed in Poland.
Hungary's PM Gordon Bajnai met with Prime Minister Tusk, Tuesday, to discuss the EU's new economic strategy.
Poland wants the new "EU 2020" plan to encompass the continuing needs of the EU's new member states and demands completion of internal EU market construction and infrastructure funds envisaged in the EU's budget after 2013. The issue of further enlargement of the euro zone is also to be on the agenda.
The strategy which will be presented at the EU summit this month. The new plan will replace the Lisbon Strategy, which some say suffered spectacular failure. In 2000, the European Union assumed that within a decade it would become the most competitive economy in the world, a goal so far not achieved. (pg)
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"Things went wrong wen the original 6 started admitting other, usually poor countries like Greece, Portugal, Ireland, the entire former East Bloc and so on. It should've stayed the core of 6 states, all rich and not burdened by these poor suckers who only drag things down. It's my personal opinion that the EU should go back to the original six and leave the golddiggers to fix their own mess. These poor bastards get billions each year from Brussels, hence only cost us, the rich countries, money and yet they are always complaining the hardest. Ungrateful buggers."- Very stupid quote and extremely ignorant. What country are you from? Don't forget that the German as'sholes received billions of dollars from the United States after WWII so they could get back on their feet. What did Poland get? Europe owes Poland.
