Poland in the Process of European Integration: Conditions and Course of the Campaign before the Accession Referendum

The aim of this article is to analyze the main entities and course of the campaign before the accession referendum in Poland. The subjects of the analysis were legal acts, documents (including programs of political parties and various public entities and speeches of leaders), statistical data, and scientific studies. The research process involved in-depth analysis of documents and critical content analysis. The article was divided into several parts relating to Polish society’s attitude towards EU accession; the Polish political scene after the parliamentary elections in 2001; assumptions of the information campaign; the legal basis of the referendum campaign; referendum campaigns conducted by the president, government, Democratic Left Alliance, Labor Union, Civic Platform RP, Law and Justice, Citizens’ Initiatives and Movements, League of Polish Families, Self-Defence RP, and Polish People’s Party.