Poland recorded the best real GDP growth performance

The OECD Economic Survey of Poland 2010 was presented at the Ministry of Economy of Poland. The main massage of the report is the fact that Poland was the best from OECD countries tackling the economic crisis thus Poland is the only country in the European Union which produced a positive real GDP growth in 2009.
The OECD experts provision a further growth of 2.5% and 3% in 2010 and 2011 respectively. The Head of the OECD Economics Department highlighted the stable domestic demand and the solid foundations of the financial system as the best features of the Polish economy.

Mr. Waldemar Pawlak - the Deputy Prime Minister of Poland - emphasized that the country counts on the foreign investors in developing the whole country. "Polish special economic zones will be operating till 2020 - he remainded. - The SEZs offer great opportunities for the development of direct investments." (Source: Ministry of Economy of Poland)

Additional fund to the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia

Poland, The Czech Republic and Slovakia will share extra EUR 1 billion from Structural Funds in 2011-2013. Poland will receive an extra EUR 633 million, the Czech Republic EUR 237 million and Slovakia EUR 138 million in structural funds. The top-up is a direct consequence of stronger economic growth than forecast in these countries. The Interinstitutional Agreement on the 2007-2013 financial framework between Parliament, Council and Commission foresaw automatic adjustments for countries whose GDP had varied by more than 5% cumulatively over 2007-2009 compared to the forecasts when drawing up the framework. Economic growth in Poland during this period reached 10.8% more than expected in the EC prognosis. Slovakia and the Czech Republic experienced respectively a growth higher by 10.8 % and 7.5% than expected. (Excerpt from the European Commission’s communiqué from April 19th, 2010.)