Forty minutes late for his interview, a frazzled Andrzej Kidyba rushes into his office in the eastern Polish city of Lublin and profusely apologises for being late – the 160km drive from Warsaw airport had taken him more than four hours.
“If an investor ever had to go through that hell, they would simply not come here,” says the head of Lublin Development Foundation, an agency dedicated to trying to drum up investments in one of Poland’s poorest regions.
