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/^t/Definitely it would. In Poland there are many areas of the economic life that have been seriously neglected and should be deeply reformed and changed, among many others: the retirement system, agriculture, heavy industry and so on. Poland as a country does not have enough money and experience to carry out all necessary reforms only by itself and just like many other European countries (in the past also comparatively poor and backward ones, for example Portugal, Spain and Greece) would benefit much from joining the common market and, first of all, the Union budget as it happened in the case of countries mentioned earlier which "stood on their feet" joining the European Community. Also the Union would find a new, large market for its products, instead of having "a poor neighbour" endlessly knocking at the door of rich and safe Europe. A forty-million nation in the heart of the continent just cannot remain outside the European system of trade, finance and mutual cooperation. So, in order not to stay on the margin of historic changes of the nineties, Poland should join the European structures as quickly as possible, the structures that (according to some declarations...) are open to everyone who is able to fulfil certain, quite strict, conditions of membership.