Political Criteria 2. Economic Criteria 3. Ability to Assume the Obligations of Membership 4.
Further efforts are necessary to increase the efficiency of the judiciary.
Attention should be paid to the fight against corruption. Poland is a functioning market economy, with an increasingly thriving private sector and an appropriate legal and institutional environment for economic activity. It should be able to cope with competitive pressure and market forces within the Union in the medium term, provided it keeps up the pace of economic restructuring and proceeds with trade liberalisation. Macroeconomic stability in Poland is well established and has withstood the Russian crisis. The widening of trade and current account deficits needs to be closely monitored and controlled.