EU Accession Day in Poland
EU Accession Day in Poland is held on May 1. This event in the first decade of the month May is annual.
Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller, Foreign Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz and the Minister of European Affairs Danuta Hübner signed the historical Accession Treaty on behalf of Poland in Athens on April 16th, 2003. On 1 May 2004 Poland became a full member of the European Union, along with 9 other European countries. Poland joined the EU on the same day as Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Slovakia and Slovenia, in the biggest EU enlargement in history.