Over half of Polish entrepreneurs cite bureaucracy as the biggest barrier.
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- Omissions
- The EY survey frames bureaucracy as 'among the biggest barriers' (wśród największych barier), not necessarily as the single biggest barrier — the claim's wording 'as the biggest barrier' (jako największą barierę) overstates this.
- The EY survey category is 'bureaucracy and regulations' (biurokracja i regulacje), which is broader than 'bureaucracy' alone.
- The Polish subsample in the EY survey comprised only 179 firms out of over 1,000 surveyed across 16 countries, limiting representativeness.
- Other surveys from the same period (Grant Thornton 2025, ZPP) identify labor costs and legal instability, respectively, as the top barriers for Polish entrepreneurs — not bureaucracy.
- No primary government statistical source (e.g., GUS, Eurostat) was found corroborating the claim; the evidence relies on a single consulting-firm survey.