Alexander Markus, leader of the 105-member association, said that he sees similarities between today’s Ukraine and Poland as it was in 2001 — three years before Ukraine’s smaller but richer western neighbor joined the European Union and NATO. Germany didn’t take the competitive threat of Poland seriously back then, but has since learned that Polish business “is very competitive, especially in the food processing area,” Markus said, and that Poland is also ahead of Germany in some ways. “Germans only noticed the Polish boom afterwards,” he said. “Ukraine is undergoing a situation like Poland did 15–20 years ago. It’s very...
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