1995 - President Lech Walesa: "We want Poland to be like Japan."
2001 - President Aleksander Kwasniewski: "We want Poland to experience the economic growth like Greece."
2004 - Prime Minister Leszek Miller: "Poland will grow like Spain."
2006 - Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski: "We want Poles to be able to afford vacations in Egypt. It's a safe, stable country."
2007 - Prime Minister Donald Tusk: "Poland: the new European tiger, like Ireland."
2011 - Ex-Prime Minister (runner up) Jaroslaw Kaczynski: "We lose today, but don't despair: one day Poland will be like Hungary."
:whistle: :homestar: :outback:
:lol: Poland, the touch of death :(
When the financial crisis hit iceland the 8000 polish migrant workers there mostly left.
Does the polish vote of no confidence have the opposite effect of the polish vote of confidence?
Quote from: Viking on November 28, 2011, 07:23:38 AM
Does the polish vote of no confidence have the opposite effect of the polish vote of confidence?
Well they don't seem to have left the UK yet, it is making Cameron and Osborne anxious :P
Poland wasn't the only one used Ireland as a model of growth. Many conservatives in the US pointed to their low corporate taxes as good example for the US.