EU accession negotiations will soon reveal who gets what benefits

Negotiations to join the European Union are reaching a final and decisive stage in which is will be know what concrete benefits Poland will receive. The main negotiator, Jan Truszczynski, believes that the country will immediately benefit from the accession. How it will actually financially gain is now the most important point in negotiations. "The absolute minimum that we have to ensure is that we receive more than we received in the year before accession," stated Truszczynski. "We are fighting to reduce our net contributions and are applying to increase advance payments from Brussels for EU-backed projects," said Truszczynski. However he warns that negotiations could be endangered by attempts to dilute the independence of the Monetary Policy Council and is fearful about the plans to restructure the steel sector, which could conflict with EU policy. (Puls Biznesu, pp. 1, 5) A.D.