Poland-EU: Positive and negative features?

Centrally planned economy.

5. Access to EU funds helping development of new EU members.

No, thank you! Enough is enough. You don't have to pay 48% income tax, do you? By the time you do, you will say the same thing.

2. ...Enforcing quite stupid laws, such as smoking ban, for example

Best law ever!

Smoking ban is an EU-law now?

Enforcing quite stupid laws, such as smoking ban, for example

It's better to have smoking out of public places, though :)

I'm an ex-smoker but I have some sympathy for the poor sods send out to freeze for a fag....

Prime Ministers in Katowice: How to heal the EU? Follow the pattern of Cicero
For us, the EU is a guarantee that millions of people from our region will be able to live in prosperity and peace - said Prime Minister Donald Tusk at the opening of the European Economic Congress, Katowice, Poland . The Heads of Governments agreed that the EU needs reforms but differed on recipes to remedy the situation.
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Antonio Tajani, Vice-President European Commission, Commissioner for Enterprise and Industry has also his own vision of the EU repair. - Our policy must be based on fiscal consolidation and repair of public finances - renewal of confidence in our markets and the development of our competitiveness, which will heal the entire European economic system - he said. He added that the focus of the European Commission is the development of industry and businesses, particularly small firms. - Poland may be an example for us. She grows much faster in comparison to the EU average. It is a model country, which should be looked upon by the whole of Europe - praise us the EU Commissioner.

I don't. If smoking becomes a necessary physiological activity for you, you are the one who screwed yourself, not anyone else. You should not make others suffer because of that.

Aha...a fanatic anti-smoker! ;)

Not really. I don't care if you smoke at home, as long as I don't have to breathe the smoke.

Smoking ban is an EU-law now?

The de facto ban on little people having foreign bank accounts (this came in supposedly to encourage competition in banking).

so including babies and the elderly, pays about €2.500 a year in taxes to the EU!!

What about the economies of the economically-weaker states? Are they simply taken over and reduced to the resourses-base while the markets are flooded with the produce of the few?

Last year, Polish companies made 50 foreign acquisitions (up from 38 the year before), worth a total of €912 million, daily Rzeczpospolita reports.

The daily says that this year could see that amount smashed, as Polish companies' investment plans indicate record levels of Polish FDI could be achieved this year.

"We are used to foreign companies investing in Poland. Now, however, we are entering a new era, in which Polish state or private capital begins to buy foreign assets on a large scale. This trend will fully develop in this decade," Piotr Kwiatkowski, general director of Credit Agricole in Poland, told the newspaper.

in which Polish state or private capital begins to buy foreign assets on a large scale. This trend will fully develop in this decade,"

imported from EU dropped down immensely

Did people start drinking more? Or it was like a forbidden fruit, when produced in abundance, everyone stopped paying attention? ;)

Antek_Stalich: imported from EU dropped down immensely
Did people start drinking more? Or it was like a forbidden fruit, when produced in abundance, everyone stopped paying attention? ;)

well, following the logic: if you don't want to breathe the smoke, just avoid places where people smoke... smokers have to adjust and non-smokers not?

Quite simple - if that my hobby or other activity causes discomfort or may cause discomfort to other people, at least I should ask if it's OK to do it in their presence or wait until I'm alone altogether.

Honestly I find alcoholism much worse than smoking...there are rarely brawls because of to many cigaretts, nor beating of wives, nor driving under smoke with killing many innocents on the streets...nor any other criminal acts because of smoking contrary to alcohol.

Smoking is not half as bad and desastreous....(I'm an ex-smoker but I'm tolerant enough).

Banning smoking is to patronizing for me

and I don't know why you flipped it into an alcohol vs smoking discussion.