Special Report - Poland's roads to ruin


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Oct 2013

A logo of Alpine Bau is pictured through raindrops on a window in Vienna in this June 24, 2013 file photo REUTERS/Heinz-Peter Bader/Files

MSZANA, Poland (Reuters) - When Poland started handing out billions of euros worth of contracts for a wave of road-building five years ago, everyone was meant to benefit.

Poland would bring its decrepit transport system into the 21st century, European construction firms would win contracts at a time of recession, and the European Union, whose cash helped fund the work, could point to how it was helping.

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