EU is building Gdansk

816 billion PLN is the total amount of the city’s EU subsidised projects. They constitute 1813
PLN per inhabitant. The money is the result of Gdansk and Poland’s EU membership.

816 billion PLN is the total amount of the city’s EU subsidised projects. They constitute 1813
PLN per inhabitant. The money is the result of Gdansk and Poland’s EU membership.

Paweł Adamowicz, President of Gdansk, argues there has not been a greater sum for investment
for the last decades. First of all, the money is being spent on infrastructure projects which, if
subsidised from our own budget, would take 100 years to realize. Jan Kozłowski, Marshall of the
Pomeranian Voivodeship adds that by May this year the province had been granted a total of 2.6
milliard Polish zlotys, from the EU budget. Most of the subsidising funds were grunted to the city
which now is carrying out the biggest EU Cohesion Fund financial project. This namely being
Gdansk water and sewer system project whose cost amounts to 513 million PLN. Both men
deem the allocation of IROP and SOPT funds for the cohesion of Poland and spatial accessibility
of Polish cities biggest success. Gdansk projects involve repair works of the main communication
route (Wały Jagiellońskie, Błędnik) at the expenditure of 32.6 million PLN, W-Z (East-
West) route (Jabłoniowa - Kartuska) at 49 million PLN, and the repair of Marynarki Polskiej
St. at 55 million PLN.