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/^t/The collapse of communism in the Central-European countries remained them in a terrible economic condition. Some of those countries, Poland among them, started a painful process of economic, political and social reforms. Those changes received ardent support from the European Community, at the turn of the nineties then called yet the European Economic Community. This support was noticeable in, for example, unequal access of Polish goods to the western-European market and vice versa that is: at least for some period of time certain trade barriers were being consistenly and more quickly removed by the common western market whereas the Polish ones were, and some of them still are, to remain unchanged for a longer period of time. This is a concrete element of authentic support from the side of the European Community, the support in protection our national, Polish industry and to fierce competition as well.