Polish PM Donald Tusk says his country doesn’t want to be sidelined when it comes to rebuilding Ukraine after the war is over. And he also sees an opportunity for his country to make money from it.
“It is not wrong to say: we want to earn big money for Poland on the reconstruction of Ukraine,” he told reporters while visiting the Euroterminal Slawkow railway facility in southern Poland.
The railway facility is situated at the junction of the broad-gauge (1520mm) railway line and the European standard-gauge (1435mm) line, connecting Western Europe with the East. It’s currently a junction for connections between Poland, Lithuania, Germany, Italy, and Ukraine, and Tusk sees it as a potential future key transportation hub for materials headed for Ukraine.
Referring to the reconstruction after World War II, Tusk said, “It cannot be like it used to be … where everyone got involved, including Poland, and then the bigger players made money on the reconstruction, and Poland was left out in the cold.”
According to the World Bank, rebuilding Ukraine could cost more than $500 billion over the next decade.
