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Since joining the EU Poland has made major improvements to it economy, legals system, and political system. Reducing corruption and inefficiency that had been in place during 80’s and replacing them with stable institutions. These changes ushered in the ability for successful FDI, local investment and tourism. However, Poland is still a developing economy and has some weakness that it need to address in order to continue to grow. There are a number of issue that could arise for the rapid growth that Poland has experienced. Assuming growth continues, there could be conflict between the Polish economy and the overall EU economy. This discrepancy in growth between the nations of the EU could lead to unstable trade relations for Poland. As well as call into question the funding Poland's receives for the EU. Poland has plans to increase spending on many different social welfare programs, if the Polish economy were to weaken it could leave the government with large debts and obligations that they can not afford. Poland is currently already sitting at the EU limit for debt to GDP Ratio. Poland is also currently dealing with social unrest do to the recent increase in nationalistic tendencies by the current government. This unrest will continue to have issue for Poland both politically and economically. They need to works on continuing to

The economy continues to improve despite the last couple of years, by having an increased number of government budgets, increases number of efforts to reduce the public debt levels, and an export oriented growth

Out of the 28 members of the EU, there is ought to be a country with a weaker economy. Based off of Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio and Luigi Moretti’s research, countries that recently joined (2004) the EU like Portugal, Czech Republic and Hungary now has an economy much higher than their synthetic GDP. Which is the predicted GDP if they didn’t join the EU (Doc B). This information proves that the EU does actually work economically as countries in the organization by improving their economy and supporting them. Another example of this economic growth is Poland. According to Mitchell A. Orenstein, the Polish economy had been growing “rapidly” for 20 years. At more than 4% a year. He also stated that some German industries are able to produce goods in Poland for cheaper than China. These examples show how the EU is able to support its members economically and still benefit the stronger members at the same time. Benefiting both sides brings peace in between the countries, which brings me to this last

The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political partnership between 28 different countries. It consists of about half a billion citizens, and its combined economy represents about 20 percent of the world’s total economy (Briney, 2015). Today The European Union works as a single market, with free movement of people, goods and services from one country to another. There is a standard system of laws to be followed, and since 1999 many countries share a single currency called the Euro (Europa.eu, 2015). This essay will explore the background history of the European Union and the benefits and drawbacks of the European Union.

Since 1950 European Union (EU) was created it has promoted peace, prosperity and values among the member nations and its neighbouring countries. EU’s influential tools, has helped transform many European states into functioning democracies and prosperous countries. EU’s membership has grown from 6 to 28 countries (Enlargement, 2014), satisfying a historic vow to integrate the continent bringing in most states of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) by peaceful ideals.EU has anticipated the enlargement as an extraordinary opportunity to endorse political strength and economic success in Europe. EU’s extension policy is open to any European state that fulfils the EU’s political and financial criteria for membership; still the political process of inclusion of new state requires a unanimous agreement from all the existing 28 member states. Europe is considered to be more flourishing and safer place due to the promotion of democracy, anti-corruption policy and the single market policy.

Economic development was high from (1950-1973) but ‘The Golden age’ in Europe then came to an end. The first major reason for the slowdown in economic growth was the closure of the technological gap between the US and Europe. Europe had now stabilised its growth by reaching a

Furthermore, we can see evidence of the increase in popularity for the right-wing party as a result of the A8 countries entering the EU. Although this is not a sole causality for the increase votes, there is a positive correlation between the two variables.

Poland is known worldwide for its delicious food and pristine green landscape. Today, Poland has the sixth largest economy in the European union. The GDP in poland is 1.051 trillion dollars and has been remained relatively steady since 2010. There is a fairly low unemployment rate at 6.2% in Poland compared to Canada's 6.9%. Positive aspects of their economy include their steady rate of growth for the last 25 years, their efficient use of resources from the European Structural funds and lastly the strong domestic demand for their exports. On the other hand, unfortunately Poland’s economy also suffers from many many negatives. The first negative is their political uncertainty. Poland’s political uncertainty falls mainly on the presidential

In terms of measuring success it was also necessary to compare and contrast other European countries economic

The country faced terrible economic problems early on in their transition, but from 2000-2007, “…the Romanian economy grew in absolute terms, and the government achieved a level of fiscal stability.”(Brett 395). The World Bank attributed the growth to high foreign investment and its willingness to exploit its comparative advantages in certain services (Brett 295).

Bulgaria’s annual rate of inflation from 1990-2012 is 34%, whereas Poland’s is at a much less distressing 9% over that same span (Statistics). According to Max Rivlin-Nadler of newrepublic.com, Bulgaria is the least affluent of all the EU countries, and is a burden and hindrance to the other countries rather than a legitimate help to them. As such, there are many who wondered at the time of its inclusion as to the wisdom of adding Bulgaria to the EU. In hindsight, it seems it would have been much more prudent to waylay its entry until it had gained its own economic stability, rather than adding it to the EU in hopes of giving it that stability. As is clearly visible, membership to the EU did not give Bulgaria much (if any) economic strength, and has thus far only contributed to the EU by straining the economies of other member countries in a case of the many suffering for the few. Despite its hardship, Bulgaria is undoubtedly doing better than it would be without the aid of the EU, and perhaps more importantly, better than it would be if it were not accepting huge loans from the IMF. According to the website jubileedebt.com, Bulgaria has an overall international debt burden of 64% of its annual GDP, its governmental foreign debt is equal to 9% of its GDP, and its private sectors foreign debt is equal to a staggering 85% of its GDP. Despite these potentially crippling debts, Bulgaria only makes annual payments on foreign debt equal to 2.4% of its

Poland by IMF standards will become developed country this year 2011 after Slovakia and Czech Republic in years 2008 and 2008. Poland unlike others countries of EU Poland experienced growth of GDP in 2009 by 1.8% and thus were only country in the EU to avoided GDP decline thanks its industry competitiveness, pool of skilled

The other side of the EU financial coin presents a global outlook on the percentage growth. The EU would benefit from the enlargement by promoting investment, trade, comparative advantage based production focus and competitiveness (Grabbe, 2001). So even if individual MS do not benefit directly from the enlargement the overwhelming fact remains that the EU as a whole will see an added rise in GDP around 1-2 %( Nugent 2004: 5). The candidate states have even more to gain then the EU-15 through membership; with the Commission estimated the added rise in CEECs GDP to be around 1.3% to 2.1% in the initial years alone (European Commission, 2001). And it is not just the percentage growth that supports the economic side of the Enlargement. With the development of the CEECs infrastructure and trade their ability to consume more products rises and in return creates a demand growth that benefits the countries that produce the most (Nugent: 2004). In the long run the EU-15 would see an added rise in overall GDP following the development of the CEECs which is facilitated and empowered by their membership in the EU.

„Critically Discuss the Economic and Political Impact of the 2004 and 2007 Enlargements on the European Union"

Lithuania has had a very prosperous couple of decades after gaining its independence from Russia in 1990. In the year of 2004 alone, it gained membership in both NATO and the European Union. Lithuania has always been under watch from Russia and that grew further when Lithuania joined both NATO and the EU. Lithuania is a total of 25,212 square miles with a population of 3.3 million. Languages include Lithuanian, Russian, Polish, and Belarusian. This background information is important when looking at two different leaders within the Lithuanian government that play critical roles involving the European Union. Those leaders are Prime Minister Saulius Skvernelis and Minister of Economy Mindaugas Sinkevičius. The background information is