Poland’s 20 years in EU ‘a great success for each of us’: president

https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7784/Artykul/3372279,polands-20-years-in-eu-a-great-success-for-each-of-us-president

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  1. >**The Polish president has hailed his country’s 20 years of EU membership as “a great success” for all citizens, highlighting in a nationwide address the transformative impact of investment and European funds.Polish President Andrzej Duda.**

    >”Twenty years ago, we joined the European Union,” President Andrzej Duda said in a televised message on Tuesday as Poland marks the anniversary.

    >”May 1, 2004 was a very good day for Poland,” he declared, adding that “several generations of Poles dreamed of returning to the political community of the Western world and a united Europe.”

    >He stated: “Twenty years of our presence in the EU is a great success for each of us. Thousands of investments, excellent use of European funds, expansion of Polish companies across Europe. Just look around to see how our country has changed during this time. We have made great use of this period.”

    >He added: “But we are ambitious and want to develop further. We need large, strategic investment projects, such as the [Central Transport Hub](https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7786/Artykul/3267161,poland-picks-investor-to-help-build-eur-18-bn-air-hub-near-warsaw), so that we can join the wealthiest countries in Europe even faster.”

    >Duda also addressed security and economic challenges facing Poland and the EU, stating: “Our future depends on how we handle them. Being in the EU, we can influence its shape and set key directions. Our voice matters.”

    >He described his country’s EU membership as a strategic national interest.

    >Seventy-seven percent of Poles are happy with their country’s membership of the European Union, according to a recent [survey](https://www.polskieradio.pl/395/7789/Artykul/3370419,nearly-eight-in-10-poles-happy-with-eu-membership-survey).

    >Poland became part of the EU on May 1, 2004, a historic step that underlined the country’s realignment with the West after decades of communist rule.

    >(gs)

    >Source: IAR, [PAP](https://www.pap.pl/aktualnosci/prezydent-duda-obecnosc-w-unii-europejskiej-polska-racja-stanu)

  2. It was indeed ,great success that I could move out from dysfunctional hellhole and work and live in normal country

    Maybe future generations of brits with weird surname will debate the founding story and wonder did my words:” teraz mnie pocalujcie w dupe ,bando zlodziei” was some old family call or maybe some traditional verse from some long forgotten poet?

  5. Yeah, the poles are a great example of good use of EU opportunities and funds. Lets hope they keep on the pro EU course.

  6. I’d wager to say that my relatives in Poland would agree. I visited them a couple of years ago and hearing/seeing how life was for them in the 90s to present day seemed like night and day. Nowadays, some of us in the family who ended up in Canada/US due to WWII are looking to move to Poland for a better QOL*. How the turntables.

    **Obviously there are some trade-offs being made and it’s not by any means saying that there’s no improvements needed to be made in Poland.*

  8. On the contrary, Croatia wasted ten years thanks to the ruling HDZ mafia

  12. „That’s why my party actively fought the EU for 8 years”

  15. the eu gets someone who takes defense seriously and poland gets to boost its economy

  17. That’s actually true, Poland has progressed greatly in the last decades. But the party of this dude has criticised EU since day one and in every election, they made EU enemy number one of Poland in the eyes of their voters…

    And now he comes with this crap…

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