Poland's ruling party risks defeat as economic miracle disappoints


  • World
  • Monday, 03 Aug 2015

RYBNIK, Poland (Reuters) - In the past few years the Polish city of Rybnik has acquired a new shopping mall and its tenement blocks have been spruced up with European money, yet residents are no longer prepared to give their government credit for the changes.

Opinion polls suggest that in an election later this year, voters across Poland are preparing to dump the centre-right government in office since 2007 and install a conservative party sceptical about ceding more powers to the European Union.

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