Exhibition on Poland's 15-year-long membership in European Union inaugurated in Moldovan capital

Chisinau, 28 September /MOLDPRES/ - The Bucharest-based Polish Institute, Embassy of Poland to Moldova and the National Library of Moldova inaugurated an exhibition titled, Poland. 15 years in European Union, on 27 September.     

Attending the event were Ambassador of Poland Bartlomiej Zdaniuk, Director of the Polish Institute from Bucharest Agnieszka Skieterska, culture and art people.   

Contacted by MOLDPRES, the deputy director of the National Library, Veronica Bors, has said that the exhibition showed Poland’s way towards European integration and the progress this country made due to its affiliation to the biggest organization of this type in the world.    

”On 1 May 2004, Poland became a full-fledged member of the European Union and in December 2007, it entered the Schengen Area. Due to European funds, Poland has developed and modernized, inter alia, the road infrastructure, agriculture, as well as turned to good account more funds for the renovation of monuments, for culture and science. The country also won a society for which new labour markets had become accessible, as well as the good practices enforced in EU, including new technologies, exchanges of students and tourism development. The exhibition makes a short presentation of Poland’s achievements in EU starting from 1 October 2004, in each sector’s of the work of the state and society,” Veronica Bors said.    

In his speech, Ambassador of Poland to Moldova Bartlomiej Zdaniuk thanked the National Library for the hosting of this exhibition, noting this is the sixth cultural event organized in this library in 2019. The diplomat also thanked the Polish Institute from Bucharest, which organized this event.  

”In the today’s exhibition, we can see an important part of the history of our country and nation. If I could make a quite short summary, we start from a date when we needed help – this is contained in the first boards, and we end with the last boards, where we come with assistance. We begin in this exhibition with the Union of Lublin from 1569, 350 years ago, which was an important moment and represented the first steps to the European integration. We speak about the union between Poland and Lithuania, followed, unfortunately, by difficult events for our nation, with more occupations, with more wars and, eventually, with a 30-year-old moment, when we were able to become a free state again. The accession to the European Union did not take place in one day; an effort of the entire society was necessary, after more years of preparation. This was a new beginning, when we had to make efforts, so that the country’s changes its look both inside and outside, so that we contribute to the strengthening of freedom and democracy in other countries,” Bartlomiej Zdaniuk said.   

The exhibition will be opened till 31 October.