WiseEuropa contributed to the analysis of current and projected rates of change taking place in the European energy systems by providing long-term decarbonisation scenarios for Poland.
After Brexit, Germany and Poland will remain the only proponents of the liberal approach to the Single Market among the largest EU economies.
It seems that the only way to save the principle of cohesion and take full advantage of the single market is to encourage all the Member States to join the core in deepening European integration.
Outside the eurozone we will see a more and more fragmented Single Market, shaped according to the needs and wishes of the eurozone members, who, thanks to their dominance in the EU institutions, will be free to pass any legislation they wish to.
Poland perceives – especially after the Russian aggression against Ukraine – Russia as a serious threat to its own security and the US as its the main guarantee.
Trump’s understanding of the West is actually very Polish – or rather, PiS-ish. PiS, like Trump, came to power by promising to fight the liberal, globalist ruling classes who are supposedly aiming at transforming their societies.
President Trump’s Warsaw speech was so important: he declared the willingness to defend the Western world, but did not present any dangerous concepts such as the division between the new and the old Europe.
For longer than a decade Poland was a ‘poster child’ of democratic transition and European enlargement.
While in the past the EU was seen in Poland as above all a source of opportunities, it is now ever more frequently being defined as a threat by the current government’ assessed experts of WiseEuropa
