Polish visit EU backed projects

A HIGH-POWERED political delegation from Poland is on a fact-finding mission to east Cork to see how an EU-backed rural investment programme has created jobs and industry.

Ironically, the tour to see the positive effects of the LEADER programme comes just weeks after An Bórd Snip Nua recommended that it is axed. The group is from the Mazovia region, which has a population of more than five million, and includes Radoslaw Rybicki, the director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, Edward Trojanowski, president of the Zegrzynski Lake Partnership, and secretary of the National Union of Rural Communes in Poland.

Two regional town mayors, Mariusz Bieniek and Jozef Zajac, are also visiting.