Poland is the biggest recipient of Union financial assistance, and also likes the EU the most. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
I’d love to see us do the same with Eastern Europe. I’m hoping, starting with Poland and Hungary, they will also bail from the EU.
The position of the “Visigrad Four” (Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia ) is an interesting one.
They’re very sorry to see the UK go. We were their only allies in the EU.
I wonder if they could indeed escape from the EU customs union. One tension is that e.g. Poland is politically committed to maintaining EU levels of welfare payments (such as child support) for the diaspora of Polish workers across Europe.
If they left the EU, they would lose that. As ‘donor’ states for labour, the free movement of labor is much more important to the V4 than it is to the UK (which is a ‘recipient’ state).
Poland is the biggest recipient of Union financial assistance, and also likes the EU the most. I'm sure it's just a coincidence.
Ugh, my post #5 made the argument the wrong way round.
The Visigrad 4 love the EU in part because it’s a place for their migrant workers to work and be relatively highly remunerated. The fact that they also get much better child support is a component of that.