The impact of the Europeanization process on public administration in contemporary Poland. Selected examples and conclusions

Abstract

Poland’s integration with the European Union forced the domestic administration to make numerous modifications, and to develop appropriate adaptation processes. In national administration bodies the organizational and system structure changed to the needs and conditions of the EU administration, as the domestic administration became a part of it. The processes taking place in the national administration can be called Europeanization and it can be stated that a functional connection between both administrations exists. This merger was possible thanks to the transformation of the administration taking place in Poland already in the pre-accession period. The creation of new offices, the involvement of officials, and administrative reforms were to bring specific effects to the local administration, i.e. to improve the functioning of public authorities. But did it happen? It seems not because the interactive process of Europeanization of the national administration is not yet fully completed.