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/^t/Integration of Europe is a consequent, irrevocable and definite reality in the era of global exchange of information via internet, fax machines, phones and satellite. Poland can not choose to be excluded lest it should lose its autonomy and national identity. European Union is, first of all, a common market and customs unity of individual European countries and it by no means deprive them of their national identities - it neither intends nor was created to do it. The fears EEC opponents have are unjustified and seem to be a creation of extreme nationalism, dangerous megalomania and isolationist attitudes. Broadening minds, learning about other cultures and opening up to the world will, ultimately, help us resent these attitudes which for some nations have proved destructive, as was the case with Bosnia and Herzegovina..