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once upon a time had been encircled with years of bloody warfare and a distinct lack of hope.


From there, we visited associates in Katowice and spent a little time there mixing with local culture. It was charming and charismatic, and unlike


Warsaw acts as the economic hub with a


Images - Left: The mermaid Syrena - a symbol of the city in Warsaw’s market square, Top: Traditional Warsaw with original architecture, Second Top: Today’s Warsaw - the centre of business. Image credit: artur bogacki, marcin- linfernum and Tomacz Bidernam at Shutterstock.com


population that would dwarf its city neighbours


the country’s capital, it left any idea of being a super metropolis well alone. We met a number of young developers


here, and all of them cutting their teeth on some exciting projects from world sport to developing various apps and web portals intended to take advantage of the ever-growing boom of “social content”. They put a mockery to anyone who claimed the city was “sleepy”, like many of Poland’s


bigger city


inhabitants like to believe. Interestingly enough, Aleksander, a young designer whom we met, told us about the European Economic Congress that arrived in Katowice in May last year. Here they brought together the richest single Hungarian, Czech and Pole, and together with the rest of the event panellists, they collectively bashed


heads on Europe’s fortunes and passed advice on where growth could occur from strengths, and where dips could spread from where weaknesses lied. Now, I don’t want to bust anyone’s melons, but we’re now one year on from that congress and knowing what we know about the European Union’s recent financial fall of late, you have to question the actions taken from that summit onwards. Perhaps there were weaknesses and realities that even the most successful, bounty-rich men couldn’t see. A subject for another day, I think.


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