Poland has dropped the first Chinese firm to win a major public works deal in the EU for a contract to build a stretch of highway over funding disputes, Poland's highway authority said Monday.
"COVEC will not complete two sections of the A2 highway. Now we are analysing the legal aspects of two possible ways forward: one is a tender and the other is negotiations," Andrzej Maciejewski, deputy director of the Polish highways authority (GDDKiA) told reporters in Warsaw. "We've already spoken with 16 companies. Others are coming forward and we will be reviewing their bids," he added. According to Maciejewski the GDDKiA wants COVEC to pay 741 million zloty (188 million euros, $271 million) in damages for having failed to fulfil the terms of the contract.