Article: View from Warsaw: fuelled by foreign investment, the battered Polish capital of Warsaw is experiencing a building boom, with often mixed results.(view)

Last May, Poland, together with nine other former Eastern Bloc countries, joined the European Community. So ended a more than fifty year long period of enforced segregation from Western Europe. The Polish capital Warsaw with its 1.7m inhabitants has now fully regained its rightful place as one of central Europe's leading cities. However, even before this historic event, Warsaw had become the focal point of foreign investment into Poland. A city that was more or less completely destroyed during the Second World War and then painstakingly rebuilt in parts, Warsaw attracted a first wave of international investment soon after the collapse of the Communist regime in 1989. The ...

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