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Rafał Ostrowski, ‘Eurobuild CEE’: Your firm generates CAD 4.5 bln (EUR 3 bln) in revenue per year. It is large global company with modest presence in the CEE region. Do you have plans to increase that? Tom Smith, WSP: Yes, we have an ambition to increase our presence in the CEE region and in particular Poland. It is very much a part of our European strategy. We have 3,100 staff in Scandinavia, 5,000 in the UK, but in mainland Europe we have only approximately 560 people: 300 in Germany, 150 in France, 80 in Poland and 30 in Romania. If you combine all these offices our presence in mainland Europe is still sub-scale compared to what we have, for example, in the UK or Sweden. Does this involve opening new offices? If we have a certain number of projects in a particular city, this might act as a catalyst to open offices there. But there is also the question of the economies of scale, because sometimes I am not sure how would it work if we opened five or six offices in P