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Euroregional
Priorities
Panorama talks with Marian Wietrak,
Mayor of Bartoszyce
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- Bartoszyce is an active
member of the Baltic Euroregion. What benefits
does it bring to the municipality?
- The town of Bartoszyce strongly believes in
cooperation with the Baltic Euroregion (we have
been a member of the Euro- region since 1998).
Thanks to our Euroregion membership we have been
able to acquire funds, which were obviously subject
to the stringent requirements of PHARE. Last year,
the celebrations of the town festival were held
under the banner of "The International Festival
of the Bartoszyce Region - an Opportunity for
Furthering Euroregion Cooperation", which
was also the title of a project submitted to the
PHARE Fund and awarded a subsidy. During this
years Bartoszyce Festival we held an international
conference chaired by Małgorzata Samusjew, the
head of Baltic Euroregion, and attended by a delegation
from Nienburg, a partner town of Bartoszyce. The
town actively cooperates with Euroregions, and
this has already brought positive results.
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Urząd Miasta/
Town Office in Bartoszyce
ul. Monte Cassino 1,
11-200 Bartoszyce
tel. 089 762-98-04,
fax 089 762-98-05
www.bartoszyce.pl
e-mail: burmistrz@bartoszyce.pl
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- Being a transit center located close to
Kaliningrad and the border crossing in Bezledy,
local authorities must receive dozens of investment
offers?
- We have noted increased investor activity and
a number of businesses have either placed investments
or opened headquarters in our town. They mainly
provide services related to transit traffic, customs
houses, for example. The close proximity to our
eastern border, or rather, the vicinity of Russia,
constitutes one of the major reasons why investors
come to our town. What is more, they benefit from
the income tax breaks offered in the Warmia-Mazury
Special Economic Zone.
- A state-of-the-art sewage treatment plant,
which is the most innovative in the province,
has been built in the town. Traditional heating
has been replaced with environment-friendly methods.
Is the environment a top priority in your policies?
- For decades, Bartoszyce has been an environment-friendly
town. In 1997, our old mechanical sewage treatment
plant was replaced with a new facility, where
the sewage treatment standards applied are the
ones envisaged for the year 2000 and later. This
helped us ensure that the plant would not have
to be modernized soon after its start-up. In addition,
we have a very modern municipal landfill and the
waste selection system in place will extend its
service life to another 15 years. Rational landfill
management have helped us successfully solve issues
related to waste management in the town and county
for decades to come. Our pro-ecological activities
have also included air protection. In the late
1970s, we built a central boiler house with a
capacity of 35 Gcal/h and a natural gas supply
network. As a result, we were able to close small
local boiler houses powered with solid fuel and
introduce new ones. We also hooked up a number
of individual houses to the municipal heating
network. Bartoszyce is a town with sustainable
development and available urbanized areas connected
to all indispensable media.
- Thank you for your time.
Interviewer: Anna Zatorska
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