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See Poland–Spain relations. Poland has an embassy in Madrid and a consulate-general in Barcelona. Spain has an embassy in Warsaw. Both countries are full members of the European Union and NATO. Sweden: 1919-6-3 [209] See Poland–Sweden relations. Poland and Sweden formed the Polish–Swedish union in the late 16th century.
Poland, [d] officially the Republic of Poland, [e] is a country in Central Europe.It extends from the Baltic Sea in the north to the Sudetes and Carpathian Mountains in the south, bordered by Lithuania and Russia [f] to the northeast, Belarus and Ukraine to the east, Slovakia and the Czech Republic to the south, and Germany to the west.
The partitions of Poland erased Poland from the map in 1795 and long prevented the establishment of official diplomatic relations between Poland and the new United States. However, Poland, which enacted the world's second-oldest constitution in 1791, always considered the United States a positive influence.
Poland, together with other Eastern Bloc countries, participated in the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. Relations between the two countries were nonetheless rather amicable, but became somewhat strained in the aftermath of the rise of the Solidarity movement in Poland in 1980 and 1981, improving again afterwards.
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Poland in 996 under the rule of Mieszko I, whose acceptance of Christianity and the Baptism of Poland marked the beginning of statehood in 966.. In the 10th century, the West Slavic Polan tribe under the Piast prince Mieszko I about 960 were able to consolidate Lechitic tribes and establish a sovereign state around Poznań and Gniezno in an area later called Greater Poland.
Since then, the relationship between them has undergone significant progress, as Austria supported Poland to join NATO and European Union, which Poland occurred in 1999 and 2004 respectively. Both countries are full members of the OECD, OSCE, European Union, Three Seas Initiative, Council of Europe, United Nations and World Trade Organization.
Both countries are full members of the OECD, but modern relations are limited to mostly trade and cultural activities, although both countries see each other as vital partners in global commerce. In 2017, Japan became the second largest foreign investor in Poland in terms of total investment value, only behind the United States.