EU Victors
Although Poland joined the EU five years ago, Polish officers have not yet managed to obtain high-ranking positions in EU institutions. The EU Commission has a certain numberof posts for all member states, but Poland has failed to fill them. The EU Commission employs 1,100 Polish office workers, but half of them occupy the lowest positions in the hierarchy. Only 2 of them hold the position of vice-president general, and no one has managed to climb to the top yet. Poland is at the bottom of the statistics pile particularly when it comes to high-ranking positions, on which a member state’s image and effective lobbing to the EU Commission depends. Ewa Haczyk, who works in the Commission’s press office, claims that Poles “need to learn a great deal in this respect from the English and the French; they have the best experience in this matter, so it is worth taking advantage of it”. Experts admit that the more office workers from a member state there are in the EU structures, the easier it is to force regulations in its favour. In this regard, France and Great Britain are the definite winners.
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