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Poland's Underground Economy

Episode 5 of 5

Lucy Ash is in south east Poland, where high unemployment is encouraging young people to go down the area's reopened coal mines, and where young entrepreneurs try to avoid taxes.

As the economic crisis deepens and schisms emerge, Lucy Ash travels across Europe to meet the continent's next generation, who face an uncertain future. She explores the challenges they face and the ways in which they are meeting them.

In the final programme of the series, Lucy Ash visits Katowice, in south east Poland, where young people are going underground, literally down re-opened coal mines because there are few other jobs available, and legally, as Lucy discovers when she speaks to young entrepreneurs who are resorting to illicit means because they say the country's taxes are crippling them.

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15 minutes

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Fri 17 Aug 2012 13:45

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  • Fri 17 Aug 2012 13:45

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