Poland is one of the most effective states in post
Communist Europe. The Poles have managed to make a fast ‘transit to the West’ and enter the major political bodies of Europe as a full
fledged player overcoming a great number of complexes and historical trau
mas, which threatened to explode the region with new conflicts as far back as the 1990s. But the most important thing is that the Polish nation kept its unanimity in major issues of for
eign policy, and managed to establish an efficient system of domestic political democracy.