1. It therefore tracks how the EU affects the policy, where there is a major “misfit” in the policy content between the EU and Poland. M. G. Cowles, T. Risse, and J. Caporaso, Transforming Europe: Europeanization and Domestic Change (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2001).
2. F. Schimmelfennig, “Strategic Calculation and International Socialization: Membership Incentives, Party Constellations, and Sustained Compliance in Central and Eastern Europe,” International Organization 59 (Fall 2005): 827–860.
3. Majority of the new EU states are heavily dependent on the Russian gas, for example, Hungary imports 92 percent of gas needs, Czech Republic 75 percent, Eston ia , Lit hu a nia, and L at via 10 0 perc ent and Poland 70 percent. See M. Leonard and N. Popescu, “A Power Audit of EU-Russia Relations,” European Council on Foreign Relations Policy Papers, 2007;
4. Pulaski Policy Papers, no 12;J Kaminska,2009
5. Bieleń (2008), Op. cit; Kuzniar (2008), Op. cit; A. D. Rotfeld, Polska w niepewnym świecie, Warszawa 2006, s. 433–441.