Polands vast amounts of EU aid11 Nov 2018 23:12
The political divide is buttressed by economic disparity, despite the EU pumping eye-watering amounts of aid into the former Eastern bloc. Poland, the biggest eastern economy, gets more money on a net basis than anywhere else, yet its gross domestic product per head of population, at $13,800 based on World Bank figures, is less than half the EU average and is still way behind Greece, whose financial meltdown wiped out a quarter of its economy. No former communist state has got close to the EU average three decades after the fall of the Berlin Wall.
The European Court of Justice last month ordered Poland to halt its overhaul of the Supreme Court, part of the government’s power grab.