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Poland has been a member state of the European Union since 1 May 2004, with the Treaty of Accession 2003 signed on 16 April 2003 in Athens as the legal basis for Poland's accession to the EU. The actual process of integrating Poland into the EU began with Poland's application for membership in Athens on 8 April 1994, and then the confirmation ...
In 1994, Poland became an associate member of the European Union (EU) and its defensive arm, the Western European Union (WEU). In 1996, Poland achieved full OECD membership and submitted preliminary documentation for full EU membership. Poland formally joined the European Union in May 2004, along with the other members of the Visegrád Group.
Poland, measured by the purchasing power parity index, is the sixth-largest economy in the European Union and the eighth-largest economy in Europe, slightly ahead of the Netherlands. Poland recorded GDP growth even during the 2008–09 financial crisis. [88] The unemployment rate in the country remains very low and amounted to 5% in September 2023.
The European Union (EU) is a political and economic union of 27 member states that are party to the EU's founding treaties, and thereby subject to the privileges and obligations of membership. They have agreed by the treaties to share their own sovereignty through the institutions of the European Union in certain aspects of government.
Values are shown in euros in the original source. All values are rounded to the nearest hundred. Except Warsaw metropolitan area, which is within Mazowieckie, all areas below are Voivodeships of Poland. Regions of Poland by GDP (2021). Map key: > €100 bil. > €50 bil. > €25 bil. > €10 bil.
The EU has a long-term budget, named Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), of €1,082.5 billion for the period 2014–2020, representing 1.02% of the EU-28's GNI. [51]The overall budget for the period 2021-2027 is of €1.8 trillion combining the MFF of €1,074.3 billion with an extraordinary recovery fund of €750 billion, known as Next Generation EU, to support member states hit by the ...
WARSAW (Reuters) -Poland is on track to access 5.1 billion euros ($5.56 billion) in advance payments as part of an European Union programme to encourage a shift from Russian fossil fuels, the bloc ...
The European Union and the Philippines shares diplomatic, economic, cultural and political relations. The European Union has provided €3 million to the Philippines to fight poverty and €6 million for counter-terrorism against terrorist groups in the Southern Philippines. The European Union is also the third largest trading partner of the ...