Poland, being sanwiched between Russian and German (whatever one'd call it) Empires dreamt for senturies to become an Empire too but failed.

The EU may be seen as some German Empire's extension - a long-hated enemy and then there's another nasty one -Russia (sure, all, we Russkie may think of is swallowing and enslaving poor little Poles). So where to go and whom to love? Another Empire, the Anglo-Saxon one, powerful enough to feel protected from those nasty two.