Efficiency, not bureaucracy, needed in EU: Polish president
PR dla Zagranicy
Paweł Kononczuk
15.09.2016 15:03
Action is needed to stop the European Union being associated with bureaucracy and start being associated with efficiency, Polish President Andrzej Duda said on Thursday in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Andrzej Duda (centre) during a press conference in Sofia. Photo: PAP/Jacek Turczyk
Duda was speaking at a meeting of the so-called Arraiolos Group, attended by the presidents of Poland, Malta, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Italy, Portugal, Latvia, Germany, Hungary and Finland.
The meeting was dedicated to discussing how to rebuild trust in the European Union among its citizens.
President Duda said: “There is no country in the EU today in which citizens’ standard of living before joining the European Union was higher than after joining. In the long run, everyone gains from being in the EU.”
The Arraiolos Group takes its name from the Portuguese city in which the first meeting of the group was held in 2003.
In 2013 the group met in Kraków, southern Poland, and last year in Erfurt and Eisenach, Germany.
(tf/pk)