On the 1st September 2009, 70 years after the breakout of the Second World War, world leaders will come to Westerplatte in GdaÅ„sk, Poland, where it all began. They will pay tribute to the victims, line the paths of reconcilliation and vow to make sure similar things don’t happen again. But as delegations iron their [...]

A discussion we’ve been having recently on this blog on whether Poland is poor or not, now has a surprising epilogue. This year the income of an average resident of theWarsaw region (the Masovian voivodship) will level to 88% of the EU average – says Eurostat. This is a great achievement: even though EU funding [...]