Nearly 1⁄4 Poles supports already PolExit, while in the most professionally and possibly politically active age group 30-49 this percent increases to nearly 38% of respondents. Just watch how the increasingly sober look of our fellow countrymen on the European Union will provoke akin lamentations of the alleged elites as insufficient love shown by Poles in Ukraine or an increase in support of the Grzegorz Braun movement.
Well, obviously, we're not precisely increasing up to our enlightened leaders, and that's most likely why they want to trade us for immigrants, not just those from the Dnieper.
The story of the West
However, in order to realize the attitude of Poles towards the European Union, it is essential to go back to the early 1990s, erstwhile the full systemic transformation took place under the motto "return to Europe". A powerful propaganda apparatus skillfully exploited Polish complexes, the belief that the West betrayed Poland in Yalta, agreeing to russian dominance, and that Poland should be compensated for not participating in Marshall's plan (which was never thought of as a program of economical dependence on the US in Poland). Poles of the 1990s truly thought that something was due to them from the West and that the repayment of this debt was primarily the beginning of borders. After 2004 and the accession of Poland to the European Union, more than 3.5 million Poles left for permanent work in the West, which effectively discharged the problem of unemployment for many years. Politicians could thus pretend that the Polish economy was developing, and the money sent by immigrants allowed to cover holes in home budgets. Returners from emigration brought money which they naively tried to invest, hoping that something had changed in Poland.
But it's been over 20 years. Although there are “financed by the European Union” signs on all Polish road today, there are already the first losses. Maintenance aquaparks, built of money that Poles first sent to Brussels and then got back from there little the cost of EU bureaucracy – simply not adequate money. Poland's Union is getting short of breath in terms of investment, and its costs are becoming increasingly obvious, mainly with those related to the energy market, the transformation towards renewable sources only and a extremist simplification in consumption.
End of complexes
20 years ago, Poles aspirated Europe on the basis of many years of complexes. The better Europe knows this generation, the little complex it shows, the better knowing of the negative effects of both the EU's immigration and climate policy. The seemingly beautiful and yearning EU shows its actual face, proving to be an old whore from which the powder has fallen and more and more Poles see it. The fact that the majority of the political elite of the 3rd Republic ignores this change only means that the earthquake on the Polish political scene is closer than it seems.
Even more so, the attractiveness of the EU falls in many fields. Labour migration in Germany or the Netherlands may inactive seem attractive, but Poles in the West are increasingly analyzing their situation, at 1 hazard putting better wages and housing conditions – and on the other, the security, the environment in which their children grow up, as well as the ideological oppression of the state expressed through education. These Polish immigrants who decide to return, apart from household and sentimental considerations, in many cases point to their economical concerns: “Europe is coming to an end!” – it is frequently heard due to the fact that the slowdown in improvement dynamics and the increase in the cost of surviving are already widely felt even in the case of leading EU economies. However, the almost equally common presumption of return migration is the desire to live among its own, or not to live around strangers, increasingly alien civilization and culturally. This group of returnees hits the faster and faster adaptation of the Polish environment to the 1 from which they escaped from the West. The returnees are not, therefore, ambassadors of Europeanism in its current form, but – on the contrary – many return, having established views on which mistakes of the Western EU Poland should not repeat at all. Of course, many in returning Poles of naivety and excessive belief that “in Poland they have improved” just due to the fact that the sidewalks are somewhat more equal than erstwhile they left and said even the ladies in the treasury smile. No, in the 3rd Poland it is not as much better as they think it is, but people come back to a large degree from the complexes accompanying “the entry of Poland into Europe” 21 years ago. People who have taken a close look at modern Europeanism and know its black sides are much easier to get up from their knees.
Ukraine enters – Poland exits
However, it is not just Western experience. At least equally crucial for building Polish strength for PolExit is the Ukrainian issue. Even before the formal accession of Ukraine to the EU, funds coming from existing associate States, including Poland, flow to Kiev. Whatever Ukraine will be after the war is to be incorporated into the Union, which means even more spending and spending on adaptation and infrastructure programmes. Ukraine will become the main recipient of the measures for the Common Agricultural Policy. In fact, even those who believe that the EU is giving us something will gotta see that we have become a donor, sending even more money to Kiev than today, only doing so more through Brussels as a criminal associate of the European Union. The clock measuring time for Ukrainian accession is the most crucial argument behind PolExit. Poland must leave the Union before the remainder of Ukraine joins it. It's so simple.
EFTA, which is Poland like Norway and Switzerland?
What's next? If the increasing Polish criticism of the EU were to be translated into a political decision, a mechanics to reduce cognitive dissonance would be necessary. After all, it would be adequate for the 3rd Polish Republic to be outside the region of close centralisation of the Union, organised by Germany and France. This would already trigger the hysteria of the elite, expressed by slogans of opposition to "Europe of Second Speed" and "Membership of the Second Category". Meanwhile, evading the trap of a Eurocratic German-French superstate would be a good start, after which continuing in the EU would make little sense, for example, erstwhile it could be replaced by a slower but institutionalised cooperation, for example, within the European Free Trade Association, EFTA.
BREXIT Lesson
The loosening of ties with the EU would so should be decisive adequate to avoid the problems experienced by the United Kingdom. Contrary to what the pro-eurocratic media are triumphantly announcing, it was not BREXIT that proved to be a mistake, but the fact that the divorce with the Union was apparent, the British economy is inactive bound by the same regulations as Eurosoyusz, and the only applicable consequence of migration policy was replacing Polish plumbers with African accountants coming to the dishwasher. -EXIT to work – it must be full and true, specified a lesson is given us by the UK and so much smarter can and should be our exit from the Union. The exit to which more and more Poles are convinced and which may become 1 of the main slogans of a real political debate, in addition to the demands of deukrainization of Poland and keeping as far distant from the West-Russia War as possible. Politicians who think in Polish must halt being afraid of PolExit, as something unimaginable, beyond the Polish political perception and so impossible.
On the contrary. PolExit is present the request of Polish realism and the request of Polish national interest.
Konrad Hand
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