Irish builder claims €300m compensation from Polish authority

Poland’s state road operator has been hit with a 1.2bn zloty (€299m) compensation claim by Irish builder SRB Civil Engineering, the latest fallout from a troubled construction spree ahead of the Euro 2012 football tournament.

SRB said it was forced to walk away from a contract to build stretches of a key Polish highway because of failures by roads operator GDDKiA, and wants to be compensated for losses it said it incurred.

However, GDDKiA claims that SRB was at fault and that it had to withdraw from the contract, not the other way round.