Polish-German Relations and European Integration
Polish-German Relations and European Integration

Summary/Abstract: Introduction 1. The Beginnings of Poland’s Road to European Integration 1.1. Polish Expectations from the FRG 1.2. The FRG and EC’s Association Agreement with Poland 1.3. The FRG and Polish Accession Aspirations 2. The FRG as the Advocate of Poland’s Accession to the European Union. Myths and Reality 3. The FRG and the Accession of East-Central- European Countries to the Community. Identical Aims and Different Interests 4. Accession Negotiations and the Polish-German Community of Interests 4.1. The Problem of the Free Flow of Labor 4.2. Problems of the Common Agricultural Policy 4.3. Budget Proposals 4.4. Problems of Acquiring Land in Poland by Foreigners 5. The Accession Process’s Polish-German Balance-Sheet 6. The Polish-German Community of Interests in the Process of Preparing the Constitutional Treaty for Europe 7. Tensions Related to the Implementation of the Polish-German Community of Interests 8. The Polish-German Community of Interests and the EU Common Foreign and Security Policy 8.1. The Problem of Relations with Russia 8.2. The Problem of Relations with Ukraine and Other CIS States 9. Controversies Surrounding Contribution to the EU Budget Final Remarks Tadeusz Mazowiecki’s government was sworn in on 12 September 1989 and its first international legal act was to sign, a week later, an agreement on trade and economic cooperation between Poland and the European Economic Community. Even though this agreement, which had been negotiated by the last Polish government of the “real socialist” era, was the first understanding between Poland and the EEC, in practice it constituted not so much the initiation of a new stage in relations as the closing of the previous stage. It was a non-preferential agreement, calling for a very limited liberalization of mutual trade, and was ill-adapted to the new political situation.

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