POLAND Business environment and Investment opportunities Prepared By: Fotios Psaltidis (email: fopsalt@less.gr) MAP 535 Dr. Gupta Fall 2006 Table of contents 1. Abstract 2. General Information 3. Infrastructure 4. Economy Overview 5. Human Capital 6. Business Climate 7. Establishing Business Presence 8. Real Estate 9. Investment Opportunities 10. Conclusions 1. Abstract After the fall of communism in 1999‚ Poland has made remarkable progress in an effort to reform its economy pursuing
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the number of departures that people make from their country of usual residence to any other country for any purpose other than an activity remunerated in the country visited (World tourism organization‚ 2012). 3.1. Outbound tourism of Poland The 21st century began in many regions with the rising spatial mobility of both individuals and goods‚ and with opening borders. The rising spatial mobility of individuals is connected to the diversity of motivations such as leisure‚ shopping‚ work
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Poland and the Role of Solidarity Marisa Saldana and Sofia Venegas Overview What is Solidarity? (August 14‚ 1980) ● Independent self-governing trading union ● It was a broad anti-communist social movement ● Used the methods of civil resistance to advance the causes of workers’ rights and create social change. ● Contributed to the fall of communism and sparked the later Revolutions of 1989 Critical figures Lech Walesa ● ● ● ● ● Most prominent leader of the Solidarity movement Persistent activism
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Do’s and taboos in Poland. Culture is an important part in people’s lives because it provides the messages that tend to shape their perceptions‚ judgments‚ attributions and various ideas of self and other. The cultures around the world are very different and very much the alike at the same time. The way people live around the world depends on the norms internalized by their societies. As I’m studying in Poland‚ I would like to tell about polish culture: its do’s and don’ts.
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The Solidarity movement in Poland was one of the most dramatic developments in Eastern Europe during the Cold War. It was not a movement that began in 1980‚ but rather a continuation of a working class and Polish intelligentsia movement that began in 1956‚ and continued in two other risings‚ in 1970 and 1976. The most significant of these risings began in the shipyards of the ’Triple City’‚ Gdansk‚ Sopot and Gdynia in 1970. The first and by far the most violent and bloody of the workers revolts came
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I. History of Poland After the Partitions of Poland (1772-1795)‚ which had decreased the size of the country‚ giving most of the land to Russia‚ Prussia‚ and Austria-Hungary. The First World War provided a practical chance for Poland to restore its independence. The powers‚ which had separated the country more than one hundred years earlier‚ were fighting on opposite sides. Germany with the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the Central Powers) fought Imperial Russia allied with France and Great Britain
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in the future. I love to learn about my own family history and for the two trips im going to go on are going to be from my maternal and paternal sides of the family. First my maternal side of the family is from Poland and I will plan a ten-day trip to the many various places to see in Poland. I also have family still there and would plan a side trip one of my days to go visit them. My paternal side of the family s Irish and I will visit Ireland. I will start my travel of a lifetime on July 1st in
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Germany 1918 – 1939 1. The Weimer Republic * Emergence of the Democratic republic and the Impact of the Treaty of Versailles * REVOLUTION AND THE BIRTH OF THE WEIMER REPUBLIC * October 2nd 1918: Reichstag (parliament) informed GR couldn’t win war * Prince Max von Baden: became chancellor‚ brought Social Democratic Party (SDP) majority socialists into his cabinet hoped to maintain monarchy * Allies wouldn’t sign Armistice until Kaiser no longer ruled. * October 28 1918:
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In November of 1943 a young German girl name Elizabeth moves to Northern Poland after her father is put in charge of a concentration camp. The first night in Poland a huge ball is held honoring him. It is at this party that her father introduces her to a young soldier nicknamed Spike. While Elizabeth and Spike are dancing he tell Elizabeth that just days ago he smashed a Jew baby head in with his boot. Elizabeth is repulsed and punches Spike in the face. Elizabeth father punishes her by making her
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along and start it all was the British Invasion. The British Invasion was a musical movement of the mid-1960s composed of British rock-and-roll (“beat”) groups whose popularity spread rapidly to the United States.The Beatles’ triumphant arrival in New York City on February 7‚ 1964‚ opened America’s doors to a wealth of British musical talent. What followed would be called—with historical condescension by the willingly reconquered colony—the British Invasion. Like their transatlantic counterparts
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