Poland can go suck on a goat
It’s sad, isn’t it, how so many member states view the EU as something from which their own country can gain, and nothing else; how their only consideration is their immediate personal gain, and their power and influence, rather than the good of Europe in general.
In this case, I’m obviously talking about Poland. They already have a disproportionally large number of votes in the European Parliament (going by population; if you want to go by economic influence, as some idiots are proposing, it’s considerably worse), and they blocked talks on the new treaty recently because they want even more influence, especially compared to Germany (the current president of the EU, and easily the largest and wealthiest (by GDP) country in it).
When a compromise was finally reached, it gave in to Poland’s fucktarded demands so much six other countries (Belgium among them) wanted to block it.
Eventually an acceptable compromise was reached (after Germany threatened to just move on without Poland), and the new treaty should greatly reduce the ability of individual countries to suck so hard, but fuck.
Poland’s accession in 2004 was, by all accounts, an act of charity on the part of the EU. EU membership brought relaxed immigration agreements with it, so now other EU countries are having to deal with tons of Polish immigrants fleeing its collapsed economy (at least we had the sense not to allow them into the Eurozone until they clean that up; it’s expected they’ll be able to do that by somewhere between 2009 and 2013).
Poland’s self-centered assholery is an abuse of that generosity, and it’s harming the EU as a whole.
(The UK, incidentally, also threatened to stop talks unless they got opt-out clauses on essentially everything that matter, but we’re used to that. At least they aren’t a drain on the EU’s resources.)
It’s one thing to disagree on what the EU is supposed to be (Belgium, for example, wants it to evolve to a kind of United States of Europe, with an overarching constitution and a single European army, while the Netherlands, on the whole, just want a basic economic union), but treating the EU like a cash cow to be milked for your own benefit isn’t something we should put up with. If Poland keeps this shit up, I say we kick them out.
(Maybe we should kick them out anyway. The Kaczyński brothers are making a mockery of democracy and free society.)
WolfMoon said,
June 25th, 2007 at 12:45 pm
ROTFL… how silly this post is. It’s a shame, how ignorant you are about Europe, EU and how poor you are in reading with understanding. “Poland’s accession in 2004 was, by all accounts, an act of charity on the part of the EU” - yes… 40 million of customers doesn’t count. Sending products, selling it in Poland and earning shit load of many is a pure charity. “[...] deal with tons of Polish immigrants fleeing its collapsed economy [...]” - ask any UK company owners that have polish employees, if they think that way. Wait till 2012 Olimpic event in London, go check those stadiums, infrastructure… and as your self a simple, yet significant question: who builded this ? No… not Brits… yes! POLES! Go, look around, google some informations… read some more and than get back to write something that has anything to do with truth.
Cairnarvon said,
June 25th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
40 million customers don’t particularly matter if they’re dirt poor, and it’s not like Poland was a closed market before.
There also isn’t exactly a shortage of labor in the UK, which still has a 5.5% unemployment rate. Polish workers can’t work cheaper than UK workers (not legally, anyway; and for illegal labor, we already have plenty of people willing to do that), so that argument is bullshit as well.
And all of this is completely irrelevant in the matter of Poland’s self-serving attitude towards the EU.