Today, i.e. On 22 January, the first debate about our metropolis took place in Olivia Business Centre. The meeting was attended by: Paweł Chorąży – Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Development, Kazimierz Kleina – Senator (PO); Marcin Horała – Member of the Sejm (Law and Justice); Paweł Adamowicz – Mayor of Gdansk; Wojciech Szczurek – Mayor of Gdynia; Jacek Karnowski – Mayor of Sopot; Zbigniew Canowiecki – President of Pomeranian Employers and Patryk Demski – Mayor of Pelplin.

The debate was opened by: Maciej Grabski , President of Olivia Business Centre and Mariusz Szmidka, Editor-in-Chief of Dziennik Bałtycki.

Watch the full transcript of the debate

At Olivia, we have been trying to talk about things that are important for our city, agglomeration, and region for a long time. We want to be a place of reliable, open discussions on important issues, those whose conclusions can be translated into real actions that serve all of us, the inhabitants of Pomerania. This time together with ” Dziennik Bałtycki”; The organizer of the “Metropolitan Debates in Olivia” and the substantive partner of the project, the Gdańsk-Gdynia-Sopot Metropolitan Area Association , decided to initiate discussions on how to build a strong metropolis. Throughout the year, we will invite representatives of local governments, universities, cultural and art institutions, entrepreneurs and politicians to Olivia Sky Club, raising the issues that are most important to the residents of our agglomeration.

The panelists of the first meeting spoke m.in. about how to create a metropolitan area in Pomerania and what can be achieved through cooperation. They wondered whether the development of a metropolis in Poland requires special legal acts, whether the creation of a metropolis will solve our everyday problems and whether the tasks should be fulfilled by the future metropolis. What can residents gain from it? What are the opportunities and threats of metropolises?

The debate ended with the signing of the “Declaration for the establishment of a metropolitan union in the Pomeranian Voivodeship” by the participants of the meeting and representatives of the municipalities and districts of the Pomeranian Voivodeship.

Go to the website dedicated to the Metropolitan Debates in Olivia