Poland - symbol of regional stability, resolve
It's the only European nation to see growth in every quarter since 2008, with its GDP now 25% above levels then
Rzgow, Poland
TO the east, Russian aggression has paralysed Ukraine's hope for faster economic development. To the south, Hungary flirts with authoritarianism and still struggles to climb out of the last recession. To the north, Lithuania and the other Baltic States are being squeezed by the cycle of escalating trade sanctions between Moscow and the European Union.
Poland, meanwhile, has managed to navigate safely around the latest strains on Eastern Europe, just as it managed to sail through the 2008 financial crisis with barely a bruise, maintaining solid growth rates, attracting considerable new investment and industry and using its relative economic strength to build clout within the European Union (EU).
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