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/^t/"Why join the European Community?" In Poland one of the most debatable and vexed questions of the last years. To some extent, the question is quite ambiguous. The European Community primarily consists of countries the language, tradition and history of which grew out of the Latin culture. Poland has always been a part of this culture, at least for the last millenium and has never abandoned the western system of values, even after The World War II. That is why, here in this essay the term "community" refers to a political, economic and even military alliance of some European countries rather than to the whole family of Latin, European nations, because (as it was mentioned above) Poland does not have to join them as if "again" or just "from scratch".