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/^t/It would be an uncomplete picture of the union if we were to consider only the advantages of belonging to it. Poland's E.C. membership would mean further reduction of independence for the European Government. Poland's foreign policy and military systems would be dependent on the Government's directive and Poland would not be supposed to act individually. All decisions will be passed with the mutual agreement and the member will have to obey and carry out established programm. As far as agriculture is concerned, cheap food coming from the area of E.C. is going to be a major threat for Polish economy. The costs of production of food in the Union is much lower than the costs of production of it in Poland. So far the Polish government have set heavy taxes on incoming food from the E.C members but the time we are accepted into the E.C structure, Poland will have to abolish the taxes and allow the foreign products to be present on the Polish market on the same rules as the Polish ones.350 It would mean the further deterioration of agriculture in Poland. The prices will go up and Polish food naturally will be much more expensive than the incoming one. At the end one third of Polish farms may stop to exist due to the described process. There are also many other questions to which Poland doesn't know the answers. Is it possible to leave it? On what final terms are we going to be accepted? What will hapen to our independence and cultural values? We can of course multiply the number of questions which we may ask but one thing is true that we won't get the answers right now because it is simply impossible. But for sure, our culture will undergo an intensive permeation of foreign negative values which may in fact topple Poland's fragile state of things. Even now, wider contacts with Europe give a slow rise to higher criminal number of crimes and robberies commited by juvenile wrongdoers. When E.C. will be closer to Poland it may result in further deteriorration of Polish community. Also Poland's condition of economy may suffer from isolation formed by the economic frames of the E.C. We will benefit from the trade with the organisation but at the same time other countries may stop trading with us because of our involvement in the structures of the E.C.