Poland will never catch up with the West

According to estimates by the Polish government, Poland will have caught up with the standard of living in the West in 20 to 30 years. Nonsense, writes the conservative daily Rzeczpospolita: "Practically every former cabinet has raised this process to the level of a dogma, with the result that the idea has become firmly lodged in our heads. The average Pole is sure that sooner or later his living standard will be on a par with that of the British, Germans and French. Nevertheless it has become clear that this belief that we will gradually catch up with the rich countries of the West has little to do with reality. On the contrary, there is a distinct danger that we will even grow far poorer than our neighbours on the other side of the Oder and on the Seine. The reason: drastic demographic changes, a lack of jobs and the unwillingness to implement necessary reforms."

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