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This article is rather Anti British in its overtone with no reasons given for that at all. Whether you like it or not the whole of Europe is undergoing austerity. The EU budget can be cut by 15% easily by cutting the expenses and wages of its meps, councillors and parliaments. . Moreover the cutting of excessive grants for ridiculous projects and massive costs would easily make a 15% cut possible. But Poland has to realise the massive money the EU is giving freely yes giving from taxpayers in countries where people face losing their jobs isn't a god given right for Poland. Poland's inability to find people to fill out forms quickly enough or sufficiently enough to get grants coupled with the governments inability to fund the remaining 10% of projects is why Poland hasn't had as much EU money as it could have. Farm subsidies should be ended full stop we are forcing farmers in third world countries in to bankruptcy via these subsidies and no one offers a shop owner a grant because he insists on running an unprofitable inefficient business so why should farmers be immune to market forces, the eu has so much food we destroy it to keep up prices which is clearly immoral. If Poland wants to be so madralinski about Britain's EU stance, perhaps our treasury should send the bill for NHS free treatment, free housing , social welfare and benefits currently enjoyed and given freely by Britain to Poles living in England ? Poland still hasnt changed any of the laws its was demanded to do so when it joined the EU, can't even produce voting papers in any EU language, a case of give us the money don't ask any questions but don't ask us to abide by the rules . Poland doesn't abide by EU laws , regarding rights of immigrants, disabled people or other minority groups or in the case of languages. Britain isn't in the Euro and neither is Poland. Articles like yours don't do much do they for two countries which have a long history of co-operation and business. Britian gave homes to 500,000 Polish soldiers after world war 2 and passports to every one, ensuring there will always be a Poland in England. Personally I would prefer we wrote about Anglo Polish success and co-operation .
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Piotr Maciej Kaczyński has been with the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS) since 2007, where he deals with the political and institutional developments of the EU. He also manages the CEPS-led European Policy Institutes Network (EPIN). Previously he was an analyst at the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA) in Warsaw (2004-7). His research interests include political integration of the EU as well as the foreign and external policies of the EU and its member countries.

He frequently comments on European politics and foreign policy issues for the media with appearances, among others, in BBC (UK), RTE (Ireland), TVP, Polsat News and TVN24 (Poland), ORF (Austria), CTV (Czech Rep.), STV (Slovakia), France24 and ARTE (France), SVT (Sweden) and Euronews.

He has published in leading European papers, such as Le Monde (France), Gazeta Wyborcza and Rzeczpospolita (Poland), The Irish Times, Hospodarske noviny and The Prague Post (Czech Rep.), European Voice and Europe\'s World.

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