Polish president praises Poland's EU membership

President Andrzej Duda has described Poland's membership in the European Union as an achievement of civilisation and stated that Poland wants to be an active participant in the EU. "Poland not only wants to be an EU member, but it also wants to actively build it," Duda said in an interview with the Polska Times daily published on Friday. The president explained that he was referring to "an EU with close ties to the US, an EU open to new members and one which respects the sovereignty of its members."