Deputies perspectives on the European Union are moving closer together

Members of Parliament have presented their vision of an enlarged European Union, which first of all should help poorer members and second should not take away their core competencies. They all agree that the creation of a European super state is not welcome. All deputies were astonished by a representative of Self-Defense who said, "EU enlargement should be in the interest of the whole of Europe, as the easiest way to solve problems is to do it together". According to the president of the Sejm European Commission Jozef Oleksy, the Union should create a model based social policies of equal development as well as full employment and should be more transparent to its citizens. According to Danuta Huebner, who is a government member of European Convent, an enlarged European Union should become economically strong and an important player on the international arena. In contrast, Polish Family League's Roman Giertych, believes that Poland should focus on a closer co-operation with USA, rather than with the EU. His party was the only one which expressed totally negative opinion about integration with the EU. (Rzeczpospolita, pp. A1, A2, A4) M.M.