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/^t/Another important advantage of joining the EC is the ability to travel all over the countries that belong to the Community. Citizens of those countries even do not have to possess passports to move freely from one country to another. Possession of an ID card only often turns out to be sufficient to be regarded as the citizen of the EC. There are of course many more advantages of being a member of the Community. The whole system of safety in Europe is built mainly on NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) and this alliance in turn is based on two main pillars: the USA (with Canada) and countries the large number of which belongs to the Union. So, the membership not only in military terms but also thanks to its economic and international interests in which Poland should be firmly anchored to be perceived as a stable and reliable partner. By the way the NATO, the membership in the European Community would facilitate enormously our application for the NATO (which is another crucial element of Polish foreign policy) and, of course, the other way round. It is worth mentioning here that the status of a member in the European Community is somehow inseparably connected with the memmbership in the NATO. Although it is not always "the case", just in the case of Poland it is especially notable. But coming back to the main plot, being only a market of the cheap labour force is not an encouraging perspective. A situation like that is quite likely to happen, to become true unless Poland becomes a member of the EC.