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Is the E.U. good for Poland?? [180]
What do the Polish people think about the E.U
Most like It but they usually don't really realize what EU is, they think - EU is rich, so It must be good, when obviously there's a difference between rich countries, which are members of EU and all these "Euro" institutions, stupid regulations etc.
Membership in EU is good for Poland in short term but in long term is simply bad.
Poland gets a lot of money from the EU... That's true but It is much less than It seems to be, because we also have to pay, maybe much smaller but serious money and the rules of spending them are so stupid that in practice It's not possible to spend 100% of them, 80% is already a good result. Also a lot of these money are from the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) and Polish farmers gets only a part of the subsidies farmers from old EU member states get, so in this case we "get money from EU" but in practice It is anti-Polish dumping, because western farmers get much more, so for Poland It would be much better If the CAP didn't exist at all.
In 2007-2013 budget we "get" something like 88 billion EUR but netto It probably won't be more than ~25 billion ---> and that's within 7 years in a country with 38 million people - avg ~94 EUR per person a year, so nothing really impressive, I spend more on newspapers . And in the next budget we will probably netto get not much more than we pay into and in long term...
The best exampel of these things is the labor market. At the begining It was great - people were leaving, so unemployment rate went down, so wages have to be better also many of them send money back home... but so many people left that already (and many of them won't come back, so money spent on their education, health care etc. were wasted) in some regions we are running out of people and still some people are leaving and our companies obviosly can't offer similar money here, so what will happen ? We already have to import people from poorer, often non European countries. I've got nothing against a singel person from India or China but large influx of foreign people (especially with different culture, religion) always create problems.
All in all EU is good project, and it is chance of European countries to be world player and equal partner for USA, China, Russia ...
How big influence let's say Slovakia will have on relations of EU with China ? Yes, It's a great chane... for medium size countries like Germany and France to play a global superpower.
