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/^t/Many post communist countries, including Poland, have a high rate of unemployment. EEC integration opponents fear it will grow even higher as a result of modernisation and redundancy in industries which will try to reach comparable EEC standards and offer competitive products. It is quite likely that modernisation will increase the number of unemployed, however, the on-going further privatisation and set-up of new foreign enterprises will create many real jobs and, at least, make up for the job-loss, if not produce more. The latest EEC members' experiences provide knowledge Poland should learn and draw conclusions from. Whereas, Spanish government did not manage to prevent the rise of unemployment within the first years after unification, Portugal, by contrast, experienced its fall from 8,7 to 4,0 per cent! As it seem mounting unemployment is not an inevitable consequence of reforms.