It’s pretty endearing to see intra-european links develop. My European heart is happy.
But if elections are soon, Germany will be the arch-enemy of the ruling party!
I wonder what the imports and exports are specifically.
Yeah, no wonder. A growing economy next to a big economy, with next-to-no trade barriers between them.
Really, there’s only one reason Polish-German relations are anything but stellar these days.
Great news. Poland – Germany cooperation is crucial for EU.
Doubling in *nominal* terms isn’t really doubling, most of the ‘growth’ you are seeing at the end there is because of inflation, which is why it accelerates so sharply in 2021-2022 (when inflation rose to a 30y high).
The correct way to measure trade growth is in volume terms, i.e. price adjusted. This chart does not do that.
One thing that is interesting about Polish-German trade is that even if it’s completely dominating Polish trade overall it is also the most balanced trade with all the countries Poland trades with (about same value of imports from Germany as Polish export to Germany).
For comparison: this is more or less the volume of China’s trade with Russia (in a record year):
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Source: FT
[https://www.ft.com/content/81825290-29a2-48b2-8e69-73e897dafe9d](https://12ft.io/proxy?&q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcontent%2F81825290-29a2-48b2-8e69-73e897dafe9d)
It’s pretty endearing to see intra-european links develop. My European heart is happy.
But if elections are soon, Germany will be the arch-enemy of the ruling party!
I wonder what the imports and exports are specifically.
Yeah, no wonder. A growing economy next to a big economy, with next-to-no trade barriers between them.
Really, there’s only one reason Polish-German relations are anything but stellar these days.
Great news. Poland – Germany cooperation is crucial for EU.
Doubling in *nominal* terms isn’t really doubling, most of the ‘growth’ you are seeing at the end there is because of inflation, which is why it accelerates so sharply in 2021-2022 (when inflation rose to a 30y high).
The correct way to measure trade growth is in volume terms, i.e. price adjusted. This chart does not do that.
One thing that is interesting about Polish-German trade is that even if it’s completely dominating Polish trade overall it is also the most balanced trade with all the countries Poland trades with (about same value of imports from Germany as Polish export to Germany).
For comparison: this is more or less the volume of China’s trade with Russia (in a record year):
[https://www.reuters.com/world/china-customs-says-trade-with-russia-hit-new-high-2022-2023-01-13/](https://www.reuters.com/world/china-customs-says-trade-with-russia-hit-new-high-2022-2023-01-13/)
Crazy.
5 minutes before the next elections in Poland: reparations, evil Germany, they benefit much more from EU than we!
5 minutes after elections: lmao let’s be friends, just forget why I just said ok?