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Gdansk Shipyard has a well known history, with 1980 as a milestone, which can be said. The shipyard is a state-owned shipyard, and is now in financial problems by misspending aid of $69m. from the EU).
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The shipyard is not state owned any more. It was privatised towards the end of 2007. It is owned by ISD Polska - Polish subsidiary of Ukrainian industrial groub Donbas.
The aid was not from the EU.
The problem with EU is that it steals independence and sovreignity from member countries - the fact that was unfortunately overlooked by those people, who were voting for joining EU in referenda in various countries...
The matter relates to Polish government aid (Polish taxpayers' money) to shipyards, not the "EU money"...
The problem is that Brussels dictates / imposes whether the country may help (support) its shipyards with public funds or not...
Maybe it would be good (to protect fair competition, etc..).
However in one instance EU does not allow Polish government (Polish taxpayers) to support Polish yards, but in another instance EU allows much more money to be fastly pumped in Belgian or French banks during current crisis... that's certainly inconsistent and not fair, that various countries and various industries are treated much differently...
as far as EU's "caring" for free market and fair competition is concerned - look also at agriculture, heavy subsidized for years (which, paradoxically, brought only increase of food prices, and nothing good)...
get ready for HUGE energy prices increases in the years to come (much higher than actual price rises of energetic raw materials), because of UE policy of insane, exagerated "pro-environmental surcharges" imposed on fuel, cars, airline tickets, etc.