Should Poland join the EU?

Poland is one of five countries from the former Eastern European Communist Block that is preparing for accession to the EU. Although the integration process requires a lot of compromises and many western policies and practices will have to be adopted, most Polish citizens are prepared to go through those changes. The majority of Poles are looking forward to the accession, which is frequently seen as quite a symbolic cut-off from Poland’s communist past. The accession means serious changes of lifestyle in Poland as well as the perception of Poles in the world, and especially in the West. This means that Poland, as a post-communist country will finally get rid of its inferiority complex. Throughout the decades the citizens of this country, trapped between the political and economic powers of East and West, developed a sense of lesser importance and ability to coexist on the international area. Poland’s accession to the EU is the process from which not only the country as a political ...