Planned Euro
2012 Stadium
Small Polish Traders Resist Changing Jarmark Poland
Warsaw, Poland May 7, 2007 Small Polish businesses to be displaced by the planned Euro 2012 soccer stadium in Warsaw, Poland are ready to fight its construction. They do not want to move their businesses to a new location.
The businesses at the Jarmark are for the most part small traders who sell off tables and from small booths. The traders are not only from Poland. They are from Poland and many other counties including Russia, Korea, Vietnam and other countries around the world.
For the most part the foreign traders are content have a business in Poland and are willing to move to a location that the Polish Government will provide. But the Polish traders are determined to stay in the Jarmark.
There have been a couple locations on the outskirts of Warsaw have been proposed to the traders. The foreign traders, for the most part, are willing to move. But the Polish traders are not. They want a location that is effectively in the center of Warsaw.
They claim that they provide the elderly and poor a place to get goods that they can only look at in the shopping malls. They say that moving their businesses away from the Centrum will move them away from their client base.
Trading at the Jarmark is big business for these small businesses. The official numbers for the turnover at the Jarmark are 600 million zloty. The estimated numbers, however, are 12 billion zloty.
Residents around the are marked are happy that it is being closed down. To them it is nothing more than a nest for criminals and criminal activity. And there are very few in Warsaw, or Poland for that matter, who would disagree with their assessment.
This is the first time a real effort has been made to clean up the Jarmark and the criminal activity associated with it.
The Ministry of Finance has known for years of the illicit trade and avoidance of taxes and has done little or nothing to shut it down.
Many presidents of Warsaw have effectively ignored what has gone on there.
One of the Presidents of Warsaw, a great proponent of Law and Justice, who ignored the Jarmark was even the Minister of Justice. He went on to be the President of Poland.
The unofficial reason that it has been ignored is that the Jarmark has been generating jobs for about 60,000 people.
But now the need for a stadium outweighs the necessity to tolerate tax avoidance and criminal activity in order to provide jobs.
The small traders will fight, get some concessions and move elsewhere. They may have been able to intimidate the Polish authorities, but the will not be able to intimidate the Polish soccer fans.
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