Poland: 30 yrs after the first free elections
June 4, 1989, marked the fall of communism
03 June, 20:43In Poland, 2019 is a year full of important anniversaries for free Poland, 20 years of Nato membership, 15 years of EU membership, 100 years of diplomatic relations between Italy and Poland. Undoubtedly the most important anniversary is June 4, 1989, when thanks to the Solidarnosc trade union led by Lech Wałęsa, after years of activities, strikes, and negotiations, "the first partially free elections" took place, the Embassy of Poland remarked, a step which paved the way for the birth of Tadeusz Mazowiecki's first non-communist government.
Thanks to the reforms implemented by the new government in the autumn of 1989, the process of change in central-eastern Europe began.
Since the country became an EU member in 2004, per capita GDP, the Embassy underlined, grew by over 20%. The Polish economy is the sixth biggest economy in terms of GDP in the European Union. Italy is an important trading partner of Poland and enjoys a good position in the domestic market. In 2018, with trade amounting to 21,500m euros, Italy became Poland's third-largest trading partner in Europe, after Germany and the Czech Republic and the fifth-largest partner in the world (after Germany, China, Russia, and the Czech Republic).
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