First president of free Poland since WW2, Lech Walesa, famously promised to 'build second Japan in Poland' during his 1990 election campaign. Took only 35 years :)
"Between 2010 and 2016, Poland received European Union funds equalling 2.7 percent of its GDP; during the same period 4.7 percent of GDP was drained from Poland, according to French economist Thomas Piketty in his book “Capital and Ideology”."
Is it? It depends on what are you trying to convey exactly. You are right: EU is provides a great environment for counties to thrive, and indeed one of the most important reasons why Poland grew so much.
But you make it sound like Poland is in some kind of a parasitic relation with the rest of the EU, sucking away money to artificially grow. Which is definitely not true.
If you want to define having a larger expenditure than contributing to the budget[1] as parasitic relation, then no, you'll have to own that to yourself.
The point is as Poland gets developed enough to be a net contributer will Poland be a country that has smart financial policies that can continue to outpace the rest.
For instance Estonia is way ahead of the EU members in how digitalized their country is, which has made it an attractive startup hub, due to the efficiency the digitalization has brought.
This question gets a good treatment in the article, and the graphs therein. (Poland net receipts per capita are similar to other post soviet states, they just have a big population)
Which means mandatory and misinformed playing down a success of an post-Eastern-Bloc CEE country, especially when being better at something than any of the post-Western-Bloc countries.
In economic subjects, it's most often expressed by comments such as yours here.
The concern I got with poland isn't oh no untermenschen izt über mein, but instead if Poland becomes a net contributer, will Poland be able to retain it's success or will it still be plagued with systemic undermining of its own democratic order to the point of enabling corruption.
Since I want all European countries to be great, and especially Eastern eu if western eu keeps shooting themselves in the foot.
Well, I meant that your comment was even worse than the previous one, in terms of being an r/europe moment. Apparently I was too vague. Sorry for that.
First they try "shock terapy" in Venezuela if I remember corectly, then Poland then Russia - and it was dissaster, at least in Poland and Russia. Flash news: looks like plan was to dismantle sell and buyout all national industry. Now, after 35 years we even do not own our own sugar factories (Germany owns it) or yeast factories (France almoust monopoly). National phones ? -> France (Orange). Internet portals, small and big ? Germany. Vodka brands ? Russia. Etc, etc. We are subcontractors nation.
And that "plan" is why russians are still poor, corupted, agressive and hates everyone. Great job Mr. US-Advisor-to-EU ! (But, yes, war with Russia _is_ idiotic idea and will destroy smallest continent)
