Polland Foreing Policy about Eu

POLAND FOREIGN POLICY

Poland Foreign Policy toward EU

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Background

European Communities policies towards its neighbors have been a vital supplement to the integration process especially with the end of bipolarity in Europe and with the rising political ambitions of the European project . In the 1990s , much of the policies toward the aspiring countries from Central Eastern Europe resembled enlargement policy , with the goal of making them ready for European membership . These policies so much affected the eastern countries that aspired to join , among

them being Poland . However , the integration of other countries into the European Community also required that the aspiring countries model their foreign policies to correlate with that of the EU . This was however not a simple exercise consideri9ng the history of Europe

The east-west division of Europe predated the rise of communism , a fact that seems to have been in the post communist euphoria . This division was unlikely to disappear within a short span of time . Consequently there were hurdles for all parties concerned with the admission of nations such as Poland to the then European Community . The danger was that the process of reform was unlikely to deliver the promised gains for the former communist countries and as this became clear to the public , there would be a renewed and deeper crisis . Even though such a crisis has not occurred save for Yugoslavia and Albania , there existed awareness within Western European governments that failure on their part to reach out to East...