According to Klaus Bachmann – a Polish-German publicist and political scientist – Poland is recording economic growth and increasing military spending, but these things are financed largely on credit. “Both economic growth and military spending are financed by loans and are sustainable only because Poland is also the largest recipient of transfers in the EU in absolute terms,” we read in Berliner Zeitung. The author also accuses Poles of xenophobia, which means that not well-educated migrants come to us, but only those from the “lowest levels of the labor market.” However, he points to digitalization as something in which Poland is superior to Germany.
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Digitization and “transparency” of citizens. In this we surpass Germany
The author of the analysis also drew attention to what the British daily “The Telegraph” wrote about Poland. “He noted that Poland would soon catch up with Great Britain in terms of GDP per capita adjusted for inflation, but his editors forgot to take into account the consequences of Brexit,” we read in “BZ.” In his opinion, it was the fact that the standard of living in Great Britain fell after Brexit that contributed to the mass return of Poles, and not Poland's sudden enrichment.
Debunking the “myths” about Poland as a “superpower”, Klaus Bachmann pointed out one area in which Poland has surpassed Germany. It is about the digitization of many areas of everyday life, which results in, among others: “transparency” of citizens.
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“Today, every Polish citizen can have a digital ID card, which not only serves for identification, but also allows you to check in your digital portfolio how many penalty points a driver has, how long his car is insured, what history his car has and what history he has as a driver. Isn't it terrible?” – writes the author of the analysis. He adds that from the point of view of the comfort of life and dealing with everyday matters, this is an advantage. In many cases, “just click” and the problem is solved. “Berliner Zeitung” lists here, among others: mObywatel application, e-prescriptions, ability to handle official matters online, electronic tickets.
Bachmann draws attention to the fact that this digital “power” of Poland was created under the conservative and by no means progressive PiS government. He mentions Jarosław Kaczyński. “The greatest paradox of this whole story, however, is that all these innovations were created under the rule of two ultra-conservative, populist, hostile to progress governments, led by a man who for years did not even have a bank account, let alone a profile on X or Facebook (and still does not), knows no foreign languages and is as analog as if he were a German extremely hostile to technology.”
