Poland Needs Action at Home to Match Influence in E.U. - by Judy Dempsey

Not far from Warsaw’s bustling city center is an oasis where cars are few and lawns are deep green. It is here, on Zbyszka Cybulskiego Street, that the stately headquarters of Lewiatan, the Polish Confederation of Private Employers, is based.

After the decades of Poland’s isolation from Western Europe during Communist rule, one would imagine that the president of Lewiatan would be delighted with the influence Polish foreign and security policy now has in the European Union.

But Henryka Bochniarz does not pull her punches. “The Polish economy is out of sync with Poland’s foreign policy,” Ms. Bochniarz said in an interview in Lewiatan’s handsome villa. “Polish foreign policy could hit a wall unless there are big changes made to the economy.”

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