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00:00:00I think that with this story, we have opened up further, I would like to
00:00:04continue working on this story, precisely to go to rural
00:00:07areas, mhm, to talk to those
00:00:10women, I was, I didn't have
00:00:14a woman from a rural area, I had humanitarians who
00:00:17go to those villages and who talk to those
00:00:21women, and they just mentioned that
00:00:24those, that those points are the most terrible in Bosnia and
00:00:27Herzegovina, where there is no... "actually no one and where they are alone in
00:00:31villages, where they can't go to the
00:00:34store, where they don't have a clinic nearby, where they don't have a pharmacy,
00:00:38where they don't have those basic things that would mean
00:00:41life to them, they don't have company, each of
00:00:45them told me that when
00:00:47they bring them that warm meal, that those women usually
00:00:51leave that warm meal, but that they most like
00:00:54to sit with them, to hug them, to
00:00:57talk, that's something that also..." uh
00:01:01absolutely what we need to work on, for me the solution,
00:01:04the solution is social pensions, there is nothing, that's the
00:01:07solution, so we can make and
00:01:10we have a lot of things, centers for healthy aging
00:01:14work excellently, people socialize there, that's a great
00:01:17aspect that we need, but we need the possibility for people to live
00:01:22Poland. Witcher 3 was a independently, those are social pensions, that's the recognition
00:01:25of work that has been unrecognized so far,
00:01:28uh, we now have... according to the new law, pensioners and
00:01:32We're here on the outskirts of krakov in female pensioners who enter into that relationship who
00:01:36will, according to the new valuation, have the lowest pension
00:01:39of 400 convertible marks, so
00:01:42we talked about some minimal increases recently, so now
00:01:45that minimum has come to 600 something convertible marks, but
00:01:49to talk about a pension of 400 convertible
00:01:52marks, regardless of who it concerns, is really something that does
00:01:56not contribute to that dignity you are talking about, of course.
00:02:00Uh, I don't know how we will solve this situation,
00:02:04but it is a fact that we as a society continue
00:02:07to consciously produce
00:02:10uh, future elderly women who will be in an even worse
00:02:13situation. The European Commission in its latest report on Bosnia and
00:02:17Herzegovina very clearly emphasized that we, or
00:02:20Bosnia and Herzegovina, have not even started
00:02:24with the harmonization of the Declaration on
00:02:27equal pay. That is something we must do,
00:02:31and that is something that the countries in the European Union did first before
00:02:35they even solved this problem, or rather, the problem
00:02:38of social pensions, we still have not
00:02:41harmonized that law, we are not doing anything
00:02:45about it, which of course means that we continue to
00:02:48produce, here are old women who will
00:02:52tomorrow be even poorer than
00:02:55women are today, yes, how much does that need have to come from society, how much are we
00:02:59as a society today... insensitive to the elderly,
00:03:02if you say that those people don't even ask for that meal which
00:03:06they don't have or desperately need, but they ask for conversation, they ask for a kind word, they ask to sit
00:03:09with someone, we, on the other hand, very often when we see
00:03:13an older woman or man in public
00:03:16transport or somewhere where they are standing in line and have taken up, oh dear, that place
00:03:20where we should have arrived faster, we like
00:03:24political ideology of the of to say that somehow we comment on where they are going now, they have all day, so
00:03:28actually, uh, often we forget to say
00:03:31something nice compared to what comes out impulsively,
00:03:35and it's not nice, yes, that is precisely that
00:03:38multi-dimensionality of poverty that older people face,
00:03:42so in addition to that material deprivation, we can still
00:03:45add access to healthcare, if you don't have
00:03:48enough material resources, your access to
00:03:52healthcare will be difficult, and on the other hand, if you don't have
00:03:56enough money, you will probably have worse
00:03:59health. On the other hand, there is precisely that social aspect, so
00:04:03that social, yes, social control, that psychological
00:04:06deprivation, so very often older people,
00:04:10and generally people who live in poverty, somehow
00:04:13self-sacrifice, so they have that forced altruism,
00:04:17on the other hand, their social
00:04:20network becomes narrower and narrower, so narrower probably
00:04:24than it was in some active working period of their
00:04:27lives, and then that is actually. "And the first thing that
00:04:31older people tell us is that it's important for them to have someone who
00:04:35will just listen to them at the end of the day, so they must not
00:04:38depend on acts of good will from individual people, but on a systemic
00:04:42arrangement, yes, especially because that systemic arrangement and
00:04:45systemic implementation gives a certain dose
00:04:49of security, there must always be some multi-sectoral
00:04:52approach, so always in that team that will work on those systemic
00:04:56solutions, we need to have decision-makers, but also lawyers."
00:05:00economists, social workers, but ultimately also the voice
00:05:04of older people, exactly, well, I would like to
00:05:07talk a little more about these examples, because somehow we are closed in
00:05:10our homes, we worry about our own existence, it seems to me that
00:05:14we don't see much of what is happening around us, here and
00:05:18there we comment when we go to the market or
00:05:21marketplace how pensioners and female pensioners mostly
00:05:25buy one product, it's not products by the
00:05:28kilogram anymore, somehow our
00:05:32surprise lasts an hour or two or maybe a few minutes until we
00:05:36come home, how important it is, right now,
00:05:39to realize that the situation is much... worse than
00:05:42what we want to see at this moment, that maybe, because
00:05:46of this current conversation, someone turns to
00:05:49their neighbor who is alone, knows that
00:05:52she is alone, and offers, if nothing else, the opportunity to
00:05:55talk. Uh, I think that
00:05:59it is indeed most important that we, uh, first and foremost, as
00:06:02individuals in society, become aware of this matter, if we individually
00:06:06become aware, somehow it will cyclically perhaps reach
00:06:10where it needs to go. Uh, yes, precisely, when
00:06:14we arrive at our, I don't know, where we live,
00:06:18apartment buildings, we really need to look around us to
00:06:20see uh, who lives next
00:06:24to us, can we help in some
00:06:26way, uh, I believe that each of us in
00:06:30an apartment building has at least one single woman, I really
00:06:33believe that, I mean, and I think that we can help at least
00:06:36one when we go to the store, to
00:06:40knock, ask what she needs. That for her
00:06:43certainly means a lot, and for us, it won't cost us
00:06:46anything, and it will
00:06:48also mean something to us. I also somehow
00:06:52want to say that this is not
00:06:55only an economic issue of a society and when we talk about
00:06:58social pensions, there
00:07:01was earlier talk about pension fund reform where
00:07:05social pensions were mentioned, a calculation was made, it was
00:07:08determined
00:07:12that it would cost between 150 and
00:07:16300 million convertible marks, that
00:07:19we do not have the ability to bear
00:07:23such a thing as a society, that's where it
00:07:27stopped. I think this is not
00:07:30an economic issue, I really think it's not an economic issue,
00:07:34I think this is a highly moral
00:07:38issue of a society and
00:07:40I think that... which allows
00:07:44war heroines, women who survived terrible
00:07:47things during the war, women who
00:07:51raised families, who were pillars
00:07:54of society, today and still are today,
00:07:58if uh, if we don't
00:08:01recognize these women, if we leave them in
00:08:03poverty, then we truly
00:08:07have no right to call ourselves humane or
00:08:11civilized. society and I think
00:08:14that all the time for declarative
00:08:17empathy has passed, absolutely, that it's time for this
00:08:21society to show
00:08:25the strength it must have for these women
00:08:27and uh we simply
00:08:31have to solve these things, because
00:08:35really, we can't anymore, I mean, I would
00:08:38say a lot, I don't have much time, but for...
00:08:42we really must take care of this
00:08:46population, to recognize them, exactly, individually
00:08:49then as a society, here come elections, so it's good to realize
00:08:52such stories when expectations of those who can change them
00:08:56are in question, finally, what message do we as a society
00:08:59send to our citizens, if women after
00:09:03a lifetime of work, worry,
00:09:06sacrifice end up in a food line, yes, well somehow
00:09:10throughout this conversation we keep coming back to... dignity, we
00:09:14send a message that dignity has an expiration date, so
00:09:17when we are economically viable, when
00:09:20we contribute to the budget, then we have dignity,
00:09:24on the other hand, when we are in those older
00:09:27years, when we are not perhaps so, in quotation marks,
00:09:30economical, somehow everyone turns
00:09:33their back on us, which is somewhat ironic, considering that the constitution of our state
00:09:37begins with the sentence based on respect for
00:09:41human dignity, equality, freedom, that is somewhat
00:09:44paradoxical and I think that this is a message that should
00:09:48alarm most of all, actually, uh,
00:09:51people who are currently in the labor
00:09:54market, because what message are we sending, we are sending a message that work doesn't pay off,
00:09:58because pensions serve as a shortcut
00:10:01to poverty that we already have and that change is already being felt
00:10:05now, we are sending a message that caring for others is invisible, it is
00:10:09very important to us because by caring for others, we produce the greatest good. Those
00:10:12are people, that's right, so I hope we will all put
00:10:16our hand on our forehead and think a little about this
00:10:19story, Dragana, thank you very much for bringing it into focus,
00:10:23it has generated many reactions as... you said yourself, so this appearance
00:10:27in our studio, a promise that we will follow you on your journey
00:10:30of producing such stories will further contribute,
00:10:34thank you, thank you very much for appearing
00:10:37and for recognizing the importance of this topic,
00:10:41I think it's very important and I'm glad that it's
00:10:44N1, of course, thank you, stay with us
00:10:48for the continuation of N1 goes global, meaning Esmir Milović is coming to
00:10:52talk about what is happening there.
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00:14:49Over the past 30 years, Poland has pulled off one of the most dramatic
00:14:52economic transformations of modern. Here in Poland they've
00:14:56seen a remarkable era of almost unbroken growth, having
00:15:00gone virtually overnight from communism to capitalism after the
00:15:03fall of the iron curtains, state ownership giving way to
00:15:07private enterprise. But is Poland still Europe's green
00:15:11island of economic growth, and if so, how long can it keep it
00:15:15up? I'm Clir Sebastian in Krakov, Poland, and
00:15:18this is marketplace
00:15:19Europe.
00:15:30Since the end of communist rule in 1989, Poland has
00:15:34quietly pulled up a chair at the top table of European. in
00:15:37business. In the early 1990s, the initial panic at the
00:15:41dramatic turn to capitalism caused near hyperinflation
00:15:45of almost 600%, and high unemployment, but
00:15:49the dust soon settled and by the mid 2s, the golden
00:15:52era of the Polish economy began. The year
00:15:552004, possibly, I would
00:15:59say one of the most important years in the Polish history,
00:16:03in particular first of May 2024 when the Poland joined
00:16:06the EU. the i think the best decisions this country has ever
00:16:09made and from this point onwards we see
00:16:13almost a continuous um very strong growth happening
00:16:17in the country at the beginning of our EU accession Poland was still around
00:16:2150-60% poor on the west so basically there was no
00:16:24convergence in the 90s but in the period
00:16:28from 2004 until 2024
00:16:31so over the 20 years we we basically managed to close the g by
00:16:35half. "the European Commission projects that
00:16:39Poland's real GDP will grow by 3.3% this
00:16:43year and 3% in 2026.
00:16:46With a strong domestic market and low labor costs, the eastern European
00:16:50country has become an attractive destination for foreign direct
00:16:53investment. Poland is the example of the country which is
00:16:56reindustrializing, so we see actually things being produced here, which
00:17:00are not only giving jobs to poles, but also attracting lot of talents from from
00:17:04the neighborhood countries."
00:17:09a neighborhood called Nova Huta, built in the 1950s
00:17:13as a model socialist utopia based around this, what was
00:17:17back then, the Vladimir Lenin steel works, later renamed
00:17:21after the fall of communism to the Tadeus Senjamir Steelwks
00:17:24after a Polish
00:17:25engineer.
00:17:34Now it's transformed into what the owner. little mitile
00:17:38says is one of the most advanced steel rolling mills in all of
00:17:42Europe. this is the fidiness okay
00:17:461,400 degrees and it goes
00:17:49up. wow, very, very
00:17:51hot.
00:17:55well, it's absolutely boiling hot in here, and every time
00:17:58slab goes fast, you can literally feel the temperature
00:18:02rise. from slab to coil in 5
00:18:05minutes. this ultra... automated facility turns out freshly
00:18:09rolled steel ready to be transformed into paint drums,
00:18:12fridges and
00:18:13dishwashers.
00:18:18not for the faint-hearted, but then neither is today's steel
00:18:22industry.
00:18:24its peak in the 1970s, this plant employed 40,000
00:18:28people and turned out 7 million tons of steal a
00:18:31year. it should be noted that the craco steel
00:18:35works, which today is an important branch of armital
00:18:39Poland in the 1970s was
00:18:41huge plant covering a gigantic area with
00:18:45hundreds of buildings, facilities and
00:18:48installations. It was all part of Poland's then rapid
00:18:52state-lead industrialization drive under communist
00:18:54rule. It was not just the factory, it was basically
00:18:58the industrial ambition and
00:19:02the party. In the early 2000s, Poland joined the EU in
00:19:05the multinational Asselon Mital. acquired the steel works all day, all
00:19:09night, three shots, eight hours each and then there
00:19:12is yes in 2020, the last blast
00:19:16furnace was closed, turning this sprawling industrial campus into
00:19:19a smaller, more high-tech finishing plant with just 200
00:19:23workers, so we have to adopt the plant to the
00:19:27current needs, same as poland did, so this plant
00:19:30from the from the monument of industry is moving to
00:19:34towards the model of sustainability and innovation.
00:19:38so a bit the journey of this plant is similar to poland
00:19:41transformation uh
00:19:43to adaptive, resilient
00:19:47and forward looking approach. Europe's
00:19:50steel industry is caught in pincer grip, crushing
00:19:54global competition on one side and the high cost, high stakes
00:19:57demands of the green transition on the other. That's why
00:20:01the European commission has launched a steel and metals action plan to
00:20:05tackle these major challenges.
00:20:08"we lack the level playing field in Europe, so we have to
00:20:11compete with import which plays with completely different
00:20:14rules, to produce one ton of steel we
00:20:18need two tons of co2 emission, this cost around 160
00:20:22euro, this is the price, and we have
00:20:26to add top of our products and the the products that are
00:20:29coming from outside the European Union, they they don't have to pay
00:20:33that, so we are at very big disadvantages, that's why
00:20:36this..." business in Europe is shrinking, old and
00:20:40new co-exist here at Nova Huta. In this
00:20:431970s building, Soviet era health and safety science hang
00:20:47over giant magnets as they lift freshly heat. coils
00:20:51out of brand new hydrogen furnaces, and despite the
00:20:54urgent challenges, this is still a place with grand
00:20:58ambitions. I hope that the krakov
00:21:01also and all this area will look completely different, that we will
00:21:05have uh all this new investments
00:21:08around, and if you come in five years you will, you will hardly recognize
00:21:12the
00:21:12place.
00:21:22Welcome back to Marketplace Europe. Now Poland's economic
00:21:25ambitions go way beyond the traditional drivers of mining,
00:21:29heavy industry and agriculture. It also has
00:21:32a growing tech sector. You are
00:21:35witture,
00:21:38that monster slayer they's talking about in the village. Cd project
00:21:41red is a warsaw-based video game development studio behind the
00:21:45wildly successful and critically acclaimed the Witcher
00:21:48Series and Cyberpunk.
00:21:502077.
00:21:53The firm started as a company importing and translating American
00:21:57games into Polish in the 1990s and selling them
00:22:00on CD ROM, it got its name. But just in the
00:22:04last two decades, it's grown into a major player in global
00:22:07gaming and source of national pride in
00:22:12crowning achievement, and actually that was the pivotal moment
00:22:15for the company. The Witcher 3 back when we launched it, was probably
00:22:19the... most awarded game uh back then on the planet, right
00:22:23now we can say that we sold over 60 million copies of the witcher
00:22:273, which makes it one of the top 10 best
00:22:30selling games of all time. back in
00:22:332011 the polish prime minister Donald Tusk gifted then US president
00:22:37Barack Obama a copy of the game when he visited
00:22:39Poland. In fact last time I was here uh
00:22:43Donald gave me a gift uh the video game developed here in Poland that's
00:22:47one fans uh the world over uh the witcher. but after the runaway
00:22:50success of Witcher 3, CD Project hit a major bump in
00:22:54the road. its second big title, cyberpunk
00:22:57207, a futuristic urban universe set in the
00:23:00US, was beset by delays and then hit by
00:23:03multiple glitches after launch.
00:23:07after the launch of Cyberpunk, which was bumpy launch, we got a
00:23:10big kick from gamers, we decided to change the
00:23:13company, uh, we name it to the project 2.0
00:23:16transformation, we changed the way we work on games, we ch
00:23:20the way we communicate and we change many, many other things within the
00:23:23company. they also decided for the first time to
00:23:27tackle multiple big projects at once. so we have a
00:23:31sort of visual representation here of what you're attempting, the challenge
00:23:34of doing these two franchises at the same time, the cyberpunk and the
00:23:38witcher franchises, it's a it's a big challenge that you're facing
00:23:42in the moment. it is a big challenge, each of the universes is different, it also
00:23:46requires a bit different technology to run them in cyber.
00:23:50you have cars, you have shooting, all this, in the witcher, you fight swords, you also
00:23:54ride horse, so things are a bit different. there's a lot of
00:23:57hype around which are four, and i know that it's a there are a lot of closely
00:24:01guarded secrets around it, but is there anything more you can tell us about when fans could
00:24:05expect it anymore about the game itself, when it
00:24:09will be ready, no spoilers today, but the company's
00:24:12future plans are clearly visible on their fast growing
00:24:16warsaw campus, what's happening here, this
00:24:20be probably the most modern motion capture
00:24:23studio, actually performance capture studio where we will be able to
00:24:27record animations of actors, but also animals so
00:24:31that they look and play natural within the games.
00:24:34how much additional pressure do you feel around the
00:24:38release of witcher four given what happened with
00:24:41cyberpunk? that pressure is huge, we are
00:24:45aware that gamers uh expect this to us
00:24:47and uh you have to learn from your past
00:24:51mistakes, so uh, this
00:24:53time uh, we have to do as good as
00:24:57possible. we tell stories within our game, stories that
00:25:01are supposed to enreach you uh after you play the game,
00:25:05stories that are different, that are intriguing, that are also
00:25:08immersive, and that make you, you want to play the game and
00:25:12finish it. that passion is what is fueling the growth of the
00:25:15company as well as its
00:25:33that of the Polish economy, rapid growth, rising status,
00:25:37ever greater ambition. And in terms of
00:25:40Poland, if we look out in five years time, where would you like to see the
00:25:43country? That good question, um,
00:25:47more and more integrated with the European Union. more and more
00:25:50integrated with the whole world and
00:25:53continually growing as it was growing over the last 30
00:25:57years. That's it for this edition of
00:26:01marketplace Europe. Here in Poland, you can find more from us online at
00:26:05CNN.com/mpe, but for now we'll see you next time.
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