General Information on Poland
Poland (official name: the Republic of Poland) is located in Central Europe on the Baltic Sea. The total area is 312,679 km2. This postcommunist country joined the European Union in 2004. Poland is a parliamentary democracy, defined by the Constitution of 2 April 1997, which declares a separation and balance between the legislative, executive, and judicial powers. The legislative power belongs to the Parliament (two chambers – Sejm and Senate), the executive power is vested in the President and the Council of Ministers, and the judicial power is vested in courts and tribunals.
The neighboring countries are: Germany – to the west, Czech Republic and Slovakia – to the south, Ukraine and Belarus – to the east, Lithuania and the Kaliningrad Oblast (a Russian exclave) – to the north-east.
With its population of over 38.5 million persons, Poland is the sixth most populous member of the UE. The country is ethnically homogeneous with over 99 % Poles and only small...
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Gawlik, L., Mokrzycki, E. (2016). Poland: Energy Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_73-1
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