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Poland has earned this. Reputation of Poland is amazing. And the people I've had the luck of meeting at a very early age during a student exchange lived up to
by moritzwarhier 1mo ago
Poland has earned this. Reputation of Poland is amazing.
And the people I've had the luck of meeting at a very early age during a student exchange lived up to that.
Poland is an indispensable pillar of the EU, and integrates countries such as UK, Italy, Germany, Greece, Austria, Romania, and many more countries in the east (I just don't want to list all of them here, because it's a slippery slope).
And Poland as a society has gone through a hard struggle to earn their very own power, stance and leverage.
- Levitz 1mo agoNot to remove any merit from Poland, but I think the EU deserves a bit of recognition here.
- everfrustrated 1mo agoBest thing Poland did was not join the Euro
- moritzwarhier 1mo agoI think you're onto something here.
- moritzwarhier 1mo agoDefinitely. I don't know what was the umbrella term, but I did participate in a student exchange program in the early 2000s, as a teeanger myself. I doubt I'd have gotten to visit Poland without the EU so far (I'm not a frequent traveler...). And Poland has, even when they had a government being at odds with the EU, never acted in some openly destructive way inside the EU. They always made clear what they want to be a part of, and what they don't want, and then, honestly followed through. Not having the Euro or being more conservative is completely fine, as long as basic human rights aren't violated in a comparatively excessive way, and my impression of Poland and Polish people has always been a very friendly one. I was in Łódź at the time, and there was a well thought-out program to connect the students, who were quite disconnected in the early 2000s, and had wildly different living situations + language barriers between each pair of students were also very diverse. Credit to the EU for funding such a program is very much appropriate.