Poland is considered as the best example of how positive can be the effects of being part of European Union.
European Funds, investments of the world most important corporations, political stability, German support and polish industriousness changed radically the country. Poland today is the most developed Eastern country, one of the world center for outsourcing and one of the most dynamic market in Europe.
European Funds, investments of the world most important corporations, political stability, German support and polish industriousness changed radically the country. Poland today is the most developed Eastern country, one of the world center for outsourcing and one of the most dynamic market in Europe.
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| The new Polish Government |
Analyzing the last political elections in another post, I highlighted two main reasons for the victory of Law and Justice party. From one side, a large part of the Country is still poor: there is a huge discrepancy between the rich west and the rest of Poland. On the other, the development has been so quick that generated fear and confusion in a quite homogeneous society.
Now the new government needs to prove that a real change is in progress. But they started modifying the composition of the Constitutional Tribunal, and introducing new rules in the public media sector and in the judiciary power.
The relation with Eu is becoming more complex, also after the opposition of Poland to receive refugees arrived in Greece and Italy.
Two considerations must be done.
The first one regards Poland itself. Which country does she want to become? A solid member of Eu that contributes to the integration process, or a member that wants just to take profit from Europe without paying any price?
If Poland is a two-speed country, this is not a fault of Europe, but the result of internal policies. If the salaries are still low and the costs are increasing, the new government should work to help people, not to limit the controls on his activities.
The second consideration affects directly Europe. As we wrote already many times, the idea of Europe is too weak to be able to go on with the integration. Too many countries don't want to pay any cost to be in Europe. And till European Union won't be able to have her own communication, everybody will unload their faults on Brussels.
Poland is the best example of European investments. But it can turn out as the worst surprise.
It's true that Poland used well it's chances after 1989, although few things could have been done better. Like 10 years of protection for domestic companies and smarter use of EU funds. EU funds created a huge dept as Poland was to poor to have even required 20% of own capital for projects in public sector. In regards to immigrants, we need to remeber that Poland accepted many tousends of war imigrants from Ukrine.Finally although many are very sceptic towards new government, we need to wait one more year to see where it is going.
ReplyDeleteI can agree, but if Poland didn't use Eu funds in the correct way, it is a fault of Polish leadership not of Europe. For sure also Europe took profit from Poland and from the other former communist countries. But it is difficult to understand this antieuropeist feeling.
DeleteRegarding the immigration, it is true that Poland accepted people from Ukraine. But the crisis in Syria is becoming worse and worse and I guess all Europe should or accept the refugees or support financiary Turkey for that.