Polish course for European Union

19 September 1989

Tadeusz Mazowiecki's government includes

an agreement on trade and cooperation

between Poland and the European Community Created the Polish

delegation carried the European Community in

Brussels

26 November 1991

Poland becomes a member of the Council of Europe

16 December 1991

Signing of the Europe Agreement between the Polish and the European Communities

22 June 1993

The European Council decides on

the possibility of accession of countries in Eastern and Central Europe to European

Union

8 April 1994

Athens During the Greek

Presidency of the EU's Polish Minister of Foreign

Affairs applied officially for the Polish accession to

the European Union

8 August 1996

Polish Parliament adopted a law setting up

the Committee for European Integration

12-13 December 1997

EU summit in Luxembourg The European

Commission has decided to launch a process of

negotiations on EU enlargement. Date of

commencement of negotiations was

established on March 30, 1998.

31 March 1998

Opened membership negotiations between

the EU and Poland, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia,

Slovenia and Hungary

2 November 2001

Danuta Hübner is the Secretary of State

at the Foreign Ministry for

European Integration

14 December 2002

At the Copenhagen summit Polish negotiations on the access to EU end.

16 April 2003

In Athens, the member states and 10 candidate countries, together with

Poland sign the Accession Treaty,

which forms the basis of membership in the

European Union

8 June 2003

EU referendum

in Poland.77.5% out of voters

support the accession of Poland to European

Union.Voter turnout is 58.9%

1 May 2004

Enlargement of the European Union. Poland, together

with Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia,

Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary join the European Union

The work perfomed by Michał Stroisz class II „a”