Is your country better or worse off because of the EU?

Worse. But the only party with a chance of winning the presidential & legislative elections that wants out of it has a strong racist history and it's former leader mentionned wanting to put LGBTs in "camps". + it's a satellite of Putin.

it's not in it thank God cause it would be worse

who's in your avi dante

Way better off. There's actually no country worse off in the EU.

Worse off. I expressed my opinion in the other thread.

My country joined in 2004 of course we are better off.

I'd say better off because EU protects more LGBT rights

better

Poland's per capita GDP in comparison to the rest of the EU in 2005: 50%
Poland's per capita GDP in comparison to the rest of the EU in 2014: 68%

but I guess not.

How about you challenge the other points I made in your thread?

The GDP increased not because of EU donations.

No not just. Thanks to the open borders Poland can trade freely, Polish people can go and work elsewhere. Open borders mean more income for tourism. All these and more contribute to a bigger more prosperous economy.

I can't challenge some of your statements that I never heard of before and tbh I don't find them of credible source.

Those numbers though are 100% credible.

http://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/tgm/tab...00114&plugin=1

I'm in the UK so we're worse off, of course.

The biggest beneficiary of the EU as a project is Germany, and the fact that the far right is rising in your country is your own government's fault.

Well The Netherlands pays wayyyy more than we get.
I wish the Union would consist of The NLs - Belgium - Ireland - UK - Germany - Denmark - Sweden - Finland - Austria - France.

It's the southern + eastern european countries with their weak ass economies that ruin everything
Like no shade to them but when they're economically strong enough they should join now it's just a charity project of western europeans sending free money to the east/ south.

Sure honey that's why the East of the EU has been the fastest growing region in the past decade.

That's if you look at financial contributions only. Yeah, for the government it costs a little bit (like 0.5% of GDP) more (just purely looking at financial contributions to the EU minus financial contributions from the EU to the Netherlands). But if you look at the bigger picture the Netherlands benefits greatly. More power in the world, bigger economy (and with that comes tax revenue) due to Schengen, free trade zone, infrastructure projects, free movement, etc.
The only downside has been the Eurocrisis, but in the long run, if the Eurozone integrates more (eventually into a political union), all problems concerning the Euro will be solved.

Open borders are Schengen, which isn't a EU institution.

And if you believe that funds sent from foreign countries is a good way of improving the GDP then
What industry btw? Most large industrial firms in my country were bought by Western corporations which not only largely moved the production to their own countries but also pay taxes there, effectively making my country a neocolony.

And as I said, entering the EU didn't really affect the GDP growth rate. And well, if you don't find my other claims credible, then this discussion makes absolutely no sense.

See you when EU crumbles to dust and mess ensues.

On the contrary god save the Brits from all those polish shops that opened in their country in the past decade.

Let me list the large corporations who brought jobs and money to my country.

Audi is the largest employer in my countries 4th biggest city Györ.
BT has one of it's largest shared service centre in Budapest.
Mercedes-Benz employs hundreds of people in Kecskemét and gives even more jobs to small business in the region.
Bosch brought basically the life back to the largest city in the north east of Hungary, Miskolc which was technically broke after the system change.

No I won't list all, but there are plenty of examples that foreign firms actually bring jobs and prosperity so RIP right back to ya my Polish friend.