Poland’s soaring economy sets stage for tight presidential race as US, EU watch closely

By SIMON CONSTABLE 

Poland is going to vote in a presidential runoff Sunday. The country is one of the few economic success stories in Europe. 

Its economy is growing far faster than some of the larger economies. It grew 2.9% last year, eclipsing 2.8% growth in the U.S. And it slammed Europe’s three largest economies with minus 0.2% growth for Germany and plus 1.1% for both in France and the U.K. 

Poland's economy has grown 11 times larger since 1986, almost twice as fast as the U.S. did over the same period.

"The last year or two has seen a boom, and it's getting publicity," Mateusz Urban, a senior economist at Oxford Economics in Warsaw, Poland, told FOX Business earlier this year. "There really is a European tiger right at Germany’s door." Read more here.

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