About a 4th century ago, I was amazed to see workers listing energy poles on my street. Concrete, not at all old, and impressive, specified as have been removed and fresh treatments have been placed in their place. In order to do this, it was essential to disconnect from the insulators and connect the full electrical wire assembly, halt the power supply, engage construction machinery, trucks with poles, booms, etc. There was quite a few costly work with it, due to the fact that as it turned out, hundreds of poles were listed in the area and thousands in the full energy region.
I knew the manager of the energy area, and that's why at the next gathering I asked him about the intent of the operation. It turned out that the wires on these poles were placed 1 and a half inches besides low than the European Union standards required to enter. So I asked if it would be cheaper to send a couple of guys with shovels to lower the ground by 1 and a half centimeters. And so weed grows around each pillar, the difference in the land is invisible, and the required tallness would be achieved. The manager will laughter at it, shake his head and say, “No, that's not the way to play games with the European Union...” Shortly thereafter, I was with my household on vacation in Greece, which was then part of the European Union for over 20 years. Among the fewer standards in the most utmost "non-EU" way, of which all Greece is most likely composed, I have besides noticed energy poles. No, I said wrong. I did not “pay attention” to these poles, but these poles virtually “felt to my eyes.” They “dropped” due to the fact that something like these Greek poles not only have I never seen in my life, but until then I would not even think that there might be specified a thing. First of all – they were all wooden, rather frequently double (so easy that they would have been overturned a long time ago, so they were simply newer as support). The hotel we lived in was adjacent to a square with a pole that I could watch from the balcony all day. It was rotten to specified an degree that it already consisted of 2 separate parts. It seemed as if a second beam stood on a rotten two-metre trunk, which did not fall just due to the fact that the wires attached to it ran in 8 different directions. respective of these wires besides ran so close to the balcony (which is part of the flat we rent) that I could easy scope them with my hand. This besides meant that these wires could be touched even more easy by the veils of our balcony. It was not essential to wait long for the day my household and I witnessed how these installations work in a time of greater wind. The ‘two-part pole’ was wobbly in all directions, causing tensioning and wavering of electrical wires. No doubt, too, as a consequence of the wobbling and abrasion of the de facto 2 ends of the 2 beams, he had to throw his decay in all directions and reduce his dimension (i.e., height). I gave up my attempts to catch a curtain, the ends of which fluttered almost among the wires without wanting to, as a consequence of electrical shock, orphan my wife and children. We all preferred to look through the closed window at the pole “dancing in the wind” and to make bets “turn over or not over.” My concerns about the fact that with the very probable "post tipper" of electrical wires falling into our balcony, interrupted the abrupt interruption of the power supply. We realized that this was due to the fall of any another pole. This “our” as you can see, and as with Greek standards, was rather solid. The next day I asked Nikos (a good guy who owns the hotel), how is the quality of Greek energy networks to the standards required by the European Union. Nikos curved, shruged his arms, and what I heard from him (in the closest connection to his expressed body “body langly”) I understood as something like “Union? And let them fall on bamboo and defender their Brussels nose, here is Greece!” I drew the subject further by saying that Poland will not be in the Union for a good fewer years yet and we have already had to implement countless directives to meet the conditions of acceptance... At that time Nikos looked at me with his eyes so glaringly, as if the most apparent of all explained to the last man: “Norms? What standards? They're in their best interest, not ours! And Germany and the full Union have an interest a 100 times bigger than we should be in this Union! It is their problem, let them worry!”
I remember that before entering the Union we had a group of over 26,000 kilometres of railway lines in Poland. It was with large regret at the time that I accepted the forced elimination, due to unprofitableness, of about 8 1000 kilometres of Polish railways. Today, after the restoration (starting during the regulation of Mateusz Morawiecki) of connections specified as Karpacz, we have 18,680 km in Poland. And what is the profitability of railway lines in specified e.g. Germany? It is actual that there are no viable railway lines in the full area of Germany. Absolutely all – are subsidised by the state. And no 1 always thought of eliminating any of them. due to the fact that this is an invaluable infrastructure, which, even if it requires permanent subsidies, in the future, especially in the case of any crisis events, may prove very necessary. For this reason, erstwhile I worked in agriculture in Rhineland-Palatinate, I saw dozens of times almost an empty train rolling through the tracks among fields drawn from Ludwigshafen in all possible directions. And I found out that no 1 in Germany would mind. How different the Czech Republic has been in its accession process, with more than twice as dense a network of railway lines, no of which are profitable. Thus, our confederate neighbours had and have a larger problem of profitability. Thus, even more force was exerted on them. And they didn't get a mile! Anyone who knows the Czech Republic and knows the Lubuska Land knows how poorly Czech tracks look compared to those of ours that are no longer there. The Czech Republic is simply teeming with rail crossings, and not only those with dams (until late demanding work of a difference, i.e. costs), but besides those without dams. And on our Lubuska Land, a immense part of the tracks ran on railway embankments, uncollisedly "hopping" over the roads thanks to countless viaducts. Since the unfortunate “accession process”, most of these tracks and the majority of viaducts have no longer existed. Trains did not ride them, there were no Railway Guards and after the liquidation of the PGR – these and another jobs swarmed with spoilers...
As part of the “accession process”, Lower Silesia was besides cleared from almost all dairy farms. I remember that erstwhile we had milk in Wrocław from Wisznia Mała or from Trzebnica. Now the closest milk mills are most likely in the Blade and the Bone. These liquidated ones did not meet the ‘Union standards’. However, I know from the experts that each of them was better than any Czech. but the Czechs didn't let one...
The European Union was painted as a “world of fair competition”. However, it shortly turned out that our energy would should be mostly liquidated. Bo — ‘bad coal’. So – mine must be eliminated as well. For example, the French do not endure due to the fact that they have almost all the energy based on the atom. And that we had the most and coal mines and power plants nobody in the Union cared. But alternatively different – it just cared and very much. due to the fact that it was a way to destruct the full foundations of the Polish economy with appropriate regulations. This was late demonstrated by Germany, who, in the process of building Europe's largest discovery mines, could not only destruct immense areas of protected old tree, but on a colossal scale start a fresh mining of brown coal. As we know – for the environment a full hell worse than our stone. But we should already realize that if it is German coal – it is always good. And if there are 7 discovery mines nearby, including six German mines and 1 Polish mine, then of course the Polish mine must be liquidated by the verdict of the “EU court”.
Poland devastated by half a century of totalitarianism and then decades of post-circular looting was hard to compete with the economies of the West. However, there were respective areas where Poland competed. For example, battery production. A directive was so introduced, according to which batteries produced by the Polish method are not good. And the German and French ones – good. Poles created the largest fleet of trucks, Polish freight forwarding companies took over a large part of the European market. A “directive on posted workers” has been invented. The successes of Polish transport companies – went back to the past. Recently, directives have been forced to heat buildings. Poland is 1 of the largest producers of Styrofoam. Did you gotta figure out what was going to happen? Whoever has a reasoning head knew from the beginning that there would be a “bad Styrofoam Directive”. After all, Germany is simply a tycoon in mineral wool production. Not better, half the price of Styrofoam, but German. What's the point of a competition for Germany, plus erstwhile you've got a business that big? It's time to ask ourselves where this is leading us. Who will we be in specified a managed Union?
When we look at all this, which the Union is forcing us to do and take into account that we are already becoming a "net payer" in fact, we should conclude that the enforcement tools of our directives - the Union is besides small longer. What are they gonna take from us? Farm subsidies? After the implementation of Mercosur there are no farmers in the Union, so no subsidies. They are not so large that Poland cannot pay them out of its own budget. The experience of Brexit shows how hard it is to leave EU structures. In addition, their abandonment is the foreclosure of customs-free marketplace access, and that is the biggest, in fact today, the only real benefit of our membership of the Union. Let us so begin to operate in specified a way that we will not implement any of the directives that we do not like. Absolutely none! The Union will respond with penalties deducted from our membership fee, so as part of the protest, we will halt paying it. Then, of course, they will halt paying our MEPs' allowances. And very well – the good people will take care of something useful in Poland and the absence of pests specified as Arlukoviche, Adamowicze, Brejza, all those Halickie and another Biedrons and Smiles in Brussels – this is simply a clear benefit, not any loss. Are they going to impose duties on us? Then everything German will die in Poland. So let us yet adopt the strategy that the Czechs utilized in their accession process: “We will not close a part of railway lines and a single dairy, and what will you do to us?” Or as mentioned earlier in Greek Nikos: “We do not care, your problem, here is Poland and you have nothing to do with it!” From the simplest and most apparent account, the financial, economical risks – in specified setting, there truly is none. And all you gotta do is respect yourself and howl Eurokouchozu where we should have them for a long time.
Artur Adamski
