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Author: Joanna Kowalewska | Publish date: 28 April 2023

19th anniversary of Polish accession to the EU

28 April 2023, Author: Joanna Kowalewska

Monday marks 7 p.m years since Poland joined the European Union. On May 1, we commemorate this event. On this day, Labor Day is also celebrated.

May 1, 2004 Poland joined the European Union under the accession treaty signed on 16 April 2003 in Athens. Poland joined the EU with Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia.

May 1 has also been an international A day dedicated to issues related to work and workers' rights. The origins of Labor Day are associated with the struggle for an eight-hour working day and decent working and pay conditions. Thousands of workers fought for all this on the streets of Chicago in 1886 - among them Also emigrants from Polish.