Polish shipyards not treated unfairly

Writing in the daily Gazeta Wyborcza, Witold Gadomski joins in the debate about the restructuring of Poland's shipyards. "The EU has ruled that in the past few years two Polish shipyards received public funding for which they were not eligible, and is now demanding that the money be repaid. This would leave the shipyards insolvent and cause serious problems for hundreds of firms with which they have cooperated. At the same time the Commission has put aid amounting to hundreds of billions of euros for banks and other financial institutions on its agenda. This has provoked surprise and suspicion - particularly in Poland - that our country is not being treated equally within the EU. I don't agree with these views. The Polish shipyards have lost out not because the EU is overly stringent but through the incompetence of the various governments that failed to reach an agreement with the EU in the past. Moreover, we should not forget that the economy does not grow through subsidies but through the good work of employees and managers."

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