Do you honestly think our respective governments would make that same investment if it were not for the EU? I honestly don't. You only have to look how the Tories (UK elected party) have put ever greater squeezes on the National Health Service, schools (even starting a program on privatising them because they're too self-absorbed rich kids who went to private school to even understand the problems normal working class families have - and trust me I have first hand experience that the Tories "academy" program (outsourcing schools to businesses) are failing kids!)
Since Poland is also shifting ever more right-wing (as seems the global trend these days) you're only going to see less and less money invested in deprived areas and services by your own government as well. Because for some reason some people see that investment as the work of left-wing socialists.
My closing point would also be that this is a small planet - do we really want to waste our limited resources and short life spans arguing over arbitrary lines on a map? It makes so much more sense to work together. We even teach our kids that cooperation is better - yet we cannot follow our own advice as adults? It's madness.
edit: actually it's worse than madness; it's just people with egos and silos of power.
Since Poland is also shifting ever more right-wing (as seems the global trend these days) you're only going to see less and less money invested in deprived areas and services by your own government as well. Because for some reason some people see that investment as the work of left-wing socialists.
My closing point would also be that this is a small planet - do we really want to waste our limited resources and short life spans arguing over arbitrary lines on a map? It makes so much more sense to work together. We even teach our kids that cooperation is better - yet we cannot follow our own advice as adults? It's madness.
edit: actually it's worse than madness; it's just people with egos and silos of power.