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Becoming non-EUnuch -> giving up your share of handouts. [36]
You do realise that countless people in Poland are dependent upon EU cash for their livelihoods? The EU has allowed the insane small peasant farmholdings to be viable, for a start.
Poland should break out the checkbook. Polish welfare is the responsibility of the Polish Government (actually the Polish people). This is bad precedent for Poland as they think they're not responsible for the social conditions in Poland. You can't solve social problems in Poland or Greece from Belgium.
Currency is meaningless, the painful measures (and the point blank refusal to pay for some of what they did) is what helped them. Greece could have perfectly well told the banks to get lost too, but there's a world of difference between owning a few billion and the massive amount that the Greeks owe.
Currency isn't meaningless, it should reflect the goods and services of your country. Iceland was able to devalue the currency. I traveled to Greece within the past year, it was just as expensive as Germany. Ridiculous, it should have been a lot cheaper but the Euro keeps prices artificially high thus the Greeks can't get out of their financial predicament and Germany continues to export to Greece and the rest of the peripherally. The Euro's been a boom for the Germans.
Hardly. Greece is in that situation because they've cheated themselves for years, not because of Germany or anyone else. The Netherlands are a comparable size - are they in trouble? No.
It's not about morals it's all about money.
EU money isn't about handouts/charity: it's strictly business. The monies moved by governments is for infrastructure dependent on private business, corporations and individuals investing in Poland or expected to be invested.
Poland needs to invest in Poland