More than 2,000 workers from Poland's Gdynia shipyard have protested against an EU ruling on subsidies for the industry.
The workers fear that the ruling on state aid could bankrupt the Polish shipbuilding industry.
Rallying in front of the headquarters of the yard under banners of the historic Solidarity trade union, the protesters demanded that Poland's President Lech Kaczynski and Prime Minister Donald Tusk 'take strong measures to save Poland's shipyard industry, including the Gdynia yard, to save thousands of jobs.'
The European Commission said on Friday it would study 'very quickly' an update on Polish plans to save the country's shipbuilding industry.
The Commission said Warsaw had provided new information concerning the restructuring of three shipyards hours before a midnight Thursday deadline.
On Wednesday the Commission had given Warsaw 24 hours to produce restructuring plans for Gdynia and two other Baltic yards in Gdansk and Szczecin.
The Commission warned that Warsaw could be ordered as soon as 16 July to recover state aid the yards have received but which did not conform with EU competition regulations.
