No unemployment in four of Poland's major cities

"In large cities we have come to the state of economic balance, there is no real unemployment. Unemployment at the level of 4% is regarded as natural, in other words, only those who do not want to work, do not do so. This is the situation observed in real Polish metropolis," said Michał Boni, an expert at the Center for Social and Economic Analyses. Cities like Kraków, Katowice and Gdańsk have an unemployment of below 5%. The data reveals that the unemployment rate has fallen from 20.6% in August of 2004 to 12% in the same month of this year. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, B1) A.K.