Poland - champ or chump?

Dingo · Mar 7, 2014

When it comes to economic growth they appear to be a European star as they privatize and invite in foreign investment.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_Poland

The Economy of Poland is a high income economy[10] and is the sixth largest in the EU, and one of the fastest growing economies in Europe, with a yearly growth rate of over 3.0% before the late-2000s recession.[11] It is the only member country of the European Union to have avoided a decline in GDP, meaning that in 2009 Poland has created the most GDP growth in the EU.[citation needed] As of December 2009 the Polish economy had not entered recession nor contracted. According to the Central Statistical Office of Poland, in 2010 the Polish economic growth rate was 3.9%, which was one of the best results in Europe.
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But when it comes to pollution and contributing to global warming they are a mess.

http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/10/15/2780631/poland-bulgaria-polluted-air/

To pin it down to dry statistics there is this.

http://www.eia.gov/countries/country-data.cfm?fips=pl

n 2012, Poland's total primary energy consumption was 3.9 quadrillion Btu. Coal constituted 55% of consumption, with the remainder represented by oil (26%), natural gas (15%), and renewable energy sources (4%), according to the BP 2013 Statistical Review.

Poland produced 158 million short tons of coal in 2012, which typically accounts for around 20% of total coal production in Europe. Poland consumes almost all of the coal it produces, while exporting a small amount. The country's electricity sector is heavily reliant on coal, as coal-fired power plants represented more than 75% of installed capacity in 2010, according to IHS Cera.
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waltky · Nov 14, 2015

Poland adopts prudent policy...

Poland won't accept refugees after Paris attacks: Minister
Nov 14, 2015 : Poland will not take in refugees under a hotly contested EU programme to distribute them among member states because of the Paris attacks, the country's incoming European affairs minister said today. "The European Council's decisions, which we criticised, on the relocation of refugees and immigrants to all EU countries are part of European law," Konrad Szymanski wrote on right-leaning website wPolityce.pl.

But "after the tragic events of Paris we do not see the political possibility of respecting them," he said. "Poland must retain complete control of its borders, as well as its asylum and migration policy," Szymanski insisted. Szymanski, who is to take the European affairs portfolio in conservative Prime Minister-designate Beata Szydlo's new government, said yesterday's attacks in Paris were "directly" connected both to the migrant crisis as well as French involvement in air strikes on Islamic State positions. He said Warsaw wanted to see the "revisiting of European policy in response to the migration crisis."

Incoming foreign minister Witold Waszczykowski added his voice to Polish concerns, saying Europe needed to "approach in a different fashion the Muslim community living in Europe which hates this continent and wishes to destroy it." PAP news agency quoted Waszczykowski as criticising the European Union's attempts to open its door to migrants fleeing the conflict in Syria as "a cul de sac." Szydlo's eurosceptic Law and Justice (PiS) party won the October 25 election on a platform that included refusing migrants entry into Poland.

Under the EU relocation plan, 160,000 refugees registered in frontline states Greece and Italy are to be relocated around the 28-member bloc. Many eastern European countries have staunchly resisted taking a share of the burden. Speaking to reporters as he laid a wreath outside the French embassy in Warsaw for the Paris victims, Szymanski said Poland would only take in immigrants "if we have security guarantees." Poland, a country of 38 million, has to date taken in some 200 Syrian Christian migrants under the auspices of a private foundation.

The outgoing liberal government had declared readiness to take in more migrants than the 9,287 assigned to it under EU proposals without saying how far it would go beyond that figure. PiS chairman Jaroslaw Kaczynski has repeatedly voiced opposition to Poland taking in migrants, instead proposing financial aid for the countries they first reach. Last month, Kaczynski warned migrants could spread diseases such as cholera, dysentery and "all sorts of parasites" which could "endanger local populations".

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ris-attacks-Minister/articleshow/49783648.cms
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Paris attacks a 'violation of all religions': Saudi Arabia
Nov 14, 2015: The "heinous" Paris attacks are a violation of all religions and underline the need to intensify efforts against "terrorism", Saudi Arabia's foreign minister said today as he arrived in Vienna for talks on ending Syria's civil war.

"I wanted to express our condolences to the government and people of France for the heinous terrorist attacks that took place yesterday which are in violation and contravention of all ethics, morals and religions," Adel al-Jubeir told reporters in Vienna. "The kingdom of Saudi Arabia has long called for more intensified international efforts to combat the scourge of terrorism in all its forms and shapes," he said.

The talks in Vienna involving some 20 countries and international organisations -- but no Syrian representatives -- are aimed at working out a roadmap to end the country's bloody civil war after almost five years of combat. But there are deep divisions, notably between Iran and Russia on one side and Western and Arab nations on the other, on the future of President Bashar al-Assad and which opposition groups to back.

Witnesses said that the gunmen who killed at least 120 people in the attacks late Friday in Paris shouted "Allahu akbar" ("God is greatest") and blamed France's military intervention in Syria against Islamic State (IS) extremists.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ligions-Saudi-Arabia/articleshow/49781493.cms
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