Donald Tusk, Poland’s new prime minister, has said that future of the Central Transportation Hub (CPK), the former government’s flagship project, will be determined in a transparent way.
The financing of the CPK, a plan for a new airport with road and rail links to be located in the centre of the country, worth PLN 155 billion (EUR 35.72 billion), is under scrutiny after concerns were raised over the transparency of the cooperation with private investors.
Last year, Poland’s state audit office, NIK, also warned that the project lacked a full business justification and had been prepared through “unreliable planning” with “impossible deadlines” to be met.
On December 12, Tusk announced in the Sejm, the lower house of Poland’s parliament, the fate of the project “will be resolved in a transparent manner,” and that no investment in Poland would lead to tragedy and despair for Polish families.
He added that Dariusz Klimczak, the new infrastructure minister and the government’s commissioner for the CPK, “will decide in an open, clear way, before all Polish women and men, what the future of CPK will be.”
Tusk also said that “outstanding and impartial experts” would take part in the process. “It will be a project that will serve Poland in the most rational way in the same way that Polish regional airports currently serve.” (PAP/Business World Magazine)
