In 2017, the Polish government set out to build one of the largest airports in Europe on the outskirts of Warsaw. The project, known as the Central Communication Port, or CPK, was meant to combine a new international airport with a high speed railway network, connecting the Polish capital and the country’s peripheral regions. With the austerity of the communist era fading from memory, the CPK has come to symbolise the rapid development of Poland, a nation which has risen from political obscurity to become the EU’s sixth largest economy and one of Nato’s strongest military powers. Following last year’s parliamentary elections, and the subsequent change of government, conflicting visions for Poland’s future have brought the entire project to a standstill.
On 29 April, Maciej Lasek, a liberal politician who oversees the CPK on behalf of the government, announced a new investment in Warsaw’s Chopin airport worth 2.4 billion złoty (£500 million).
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