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<P>1 Introduction -- Poland thirty years on: 1989-2019</P><P>Anna Visvizi, Anna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska </P><P>2 Transition and transformation: the case of Poland</P><P>Anna Visvizi and Katarzyna Żukrowska </P><P>3 Trade and financial openness of the Polish economy in the context of economic growth -- the perspective of EU membership </P><P>Marta Wajda-Lichy, Paweł Kawa, Kamil Fijorek and Sabina Denkowska </P><P>4 Poland's competitive position between 2005 and 2017 -- a road to success?</P><P>Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska and Aleksandra Kania </P><P>5 The social effects of Poland's membership of the European Union: emigration in focus </P><P>Judyta Cabańska and Rafał Kuligowski </P><P>6 Poland and the middle-income trap</P><P>Rafal Riedel </P><P>7 State Aid in Poland following accession to the EU </P><P>Adam A. Ambroziak </P><P>8 Unemployment in Poland after EU accession: a success story?</P><P>Piotr Maleszyk</P><P>9 Poland during the Global Financial Crisis: factors behind the positive growth rate</P><P>Anna Matysek-Jędrych, Marta Wajda-Lichy, Kamil Fijorek and Sabina Denkowska </P><P>10 Euro area reforms and Poland -- the state of the game</P><P>Marta Götz </P><P>11 Poland and the EU budget: what to make of it?</P><P>Magdalena Proczek </P><P>12 Catching-up: a case for Cohesion Policy and Regional Development in Poland</P><P>Małgorzata Dziembała </P><P>13 INTERREG CBC funds and cross-border markets at the Polish borders</P><P>Andrzej J. Żuk </P><P>14 The Polish banking sector in the European Union -- commonalities and differences</P><P>Renata Karkowska and Anna Matysek-Jędrych </P><P>15 The single market and Poland's competitiveness: the case of German-Polish economic collaboration</P><P>Konrad Popławski </P><P>16 From dependence to complementarity? Poland's economic relations with Germany</P><P>Sebastian Płóciennik </P><P>17 Brexit and its potential consequences for Poland -- the perspective of the Single Market principles</P><P>Anna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska </P><P>18 Poland and the energy sector under transition: imperatives, actors, issues</P><P>Ewa Latoszek, Anna Visvizi, Michał Paszkowski and Anna Wójtowicz </P><P>19 Poland thirty years after transition: looking ahead</P><P>Anna Visvizi, Anna Matysek-Jędrych and Katarzyna Mroczek-Dąbrowska </P><B><P></P></B>

By all accounts, the case of Poland and its segue to market economy and democracy is a success story: 30 years of uninterrupted growth and development, infrastructure expansion, and modernization of the economy and society. Epochal changes have unfolded in a timespan of merely three decades. Change has taken place so fast that children born in late 1980s and onwards cannot remember what life in Poland under communism was like and cannot relate to it. Also, many elderly people, easy victims of romanticizing their own youth, tend to forget. As a result, the uniqueness of Polish transition and transformation, the boldness and efficiency of reforms, and the success that Polish society mastered together, tend to be undermined today both domestically and internationally. Poland has now been a member of the EU for more than 15 years. During that time, Poland's image on the EU scene evolved from newcomer, through model child', champion of growth, to - in some respects - a maverick. This volume's objective is to remind society, old and young, researchers, scholars and practitioners, that Poland's success is an outcome of well-thoughtout and bold structural reforms implemented in a swift and timely manner, of society's support for these reforms, and of third actors' benign assistance. Looking back on the 30 years since the collapse of communism, and at the over 15 yearsof EU membership, this book offers an interdisciplinary, comprehensive and criticalinsight into factors and processes that have led to today's Poland.

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