Abstract
The article attempts to present the social, political and economic effects
of the Polish accession to the so called Euroland and the introduction of the
euro. The author asks many research questions and proposes some theses
that stimulate reflection, e.g. he writes that the substitution of the national
currency by the European Union’s one is connected with the delegation of
some authority reserved for a sovereign state to a supranational level. And
this must arouse some fears or even meet with opposition from some political
parties, especially the right-wing and populist ones and a part of the society.
According to the author, it is – however – a result of bringing politics
into the matter and ignorance or even conscious disinformation about the
effects of the adoption of the euro. The examples of other countries that
have already introduced the euro show that it has not had a negative impact
on their sovereignty and national identity.