This book is particularly interesting due to its topic, rarely touched by others. This is because usually Polish people just assume that we benefit from the membership in the Union instead of thinking it through - meanwhile, the author undertakes serious economic analysis of this issue. He points out one great advantage, namely, the access to the common European market, which generates for Poland about 13% of its GDP. But, in his opinion, this is where the list of the pros ends. I think he will surprise many, even eurosceptics, by his claim that the EU grants and subsidies are actually harmful - but he lists numerous charges against them. First of all, they are burdened with the costs of the remuneration of the workers whose only task is to evaluate the applications for the grants (while, if they had a different job, they would do something productive). Secondly, the grants are often spent in an ill-considered way or on something bad, or even extorted, e.g. on trainings, whose usefulness we can't measure. In addition, they generate costs of maintenance of the facilities built, growing debt burden, or even bankruptcies of firms and self-government bodies (especially when they need to give back the grant because of contract breach). Lastly, taking grants is a form of unfair business practice, giving advantage over the firms which do not take them.
The EU is also too many regulations which are often absurd and detached from life; ideological activity - imposing abortion and gender; as well as the economically suicidal climate-energy policy. Another interesting issue is what the EU does with the European taxpayers' money - sometimes the situation is particularly ridiculous. Only imagine that it spent 250 000 Euro on the fight against... asymptomatic discrimination (we can doubt its very existence since there are no symptoms). Moreover, it gives money to the EU candidate states, and in the past also donated Putin's Russia and... Sri Lanka. However, if we to try to find some logic and objective of the EU policies, it is the interest of Germany, which consistently pursues the plan of Mitteleuropa. This concept orginated in 1915 and its goal is the subjection of the Central-East Europe to German economy. Now it is to be accomplished not by army, but through the European institutions.
At the end, the author leaves us some hope. One such hope is Polexit, another - mentioned in the last interview of the book - pointing out that even remaining in the EU, we can withdraw from European Green Deal and, most likely, suffer no important consequences. But for this, we need a government pursuing sovereign policy. A much-needed book.
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