Prices were up 13% on a year earlier whereas, across the EU as a whole, they remained broadly flat.
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Poles 40% richer than they would be without EU membership, finds report
Among the eight eastern member states that joined in 2004, only Lithuania (60.3%) was found to have had a bigger premium.
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Jakub Wiech
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