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The article investigates the extent to which the European Union has contributed
to the enhancement of Poland’s security. It achieves this through the analysis of
various instruments of the EU within the Common Foreign and Security Policy in
order to determine how (or if) they influenced Poland’s security policy. After the
accession to NATO and the EU, Poland could not find its next strategic objective
and was gradually losing its position as a leader in the region. Without national
interests clearly defined, it is difficult to benefit from the opportunities the EU is
presenting to its members, even if these opportunities are limited. The greatest
problem is going from one extremum to the other with the shift of power between
the two main opposing political parties––Civic Platform and Law and Justice