Poland has some enviable numbers to support its claim of being Europe’s economic success story of the past decade. It has doubled its gross domestic product to $526 billion, it is the only EU member state to avoid a recession after the financial crisis and its growth for the rest of the decade should be better than the eurozone and the OECD group of rich countries.
Financial Times: Poland’s one-way traffic
Cars queu at the Shegyni checkpoint on the border with Ukraine and Poland some 100kms from the western Ukrainian city of Lviv on June 6, 2012.