The article analyzes the level of digitalization of the Polish economy and makes a comparison between it and that of other countries. The authors determine the role and place of Poland in the context of the ongoing Fourth Industrial Revolution, as well as the degree of participation of Polish enterprises in this process. The analysis of the digitalization process in Poland’s economy is based on the reports of international consulting companies and data from the Polish statistical service. The authors come to the conclusion that local companies do not make sufficient use of the opportunities that the Fourth Industrial Revolution offers them. Many of them do not have even the prerequisites for the automation and robotization of production, because they have not reached the final stage of the previous industrial revolution. It is important for Polish enterprises to succeed not only in consuming digital solutions, but most importantly in creating them. The level of digitalization of the Polish economy is fairly low compared to the world's leading economies. It will be quite difficult to change this situation, since the leaders in this field are not standing still, but moving forward. A significant problem on the way to digitalization of the Polish economy is the lack of trust in new technologies on the part of the Polish corporate leadership. The strength of the Polish economy is in the presence of domestic engineers, programmers and the basic elements of ICT infrastructure. But success in building the digital economy will primarily depend on government actions and decisions made by local corporations.

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Nowadays the globalized world faces new challenges, for instance, trade and economic contradictions between the main actors of the world politics (the USA and China, the USA and the EU). Amid this situation, Latin America could play the card, add momentum to the cross-regional contacts and considerably benefit from it. Fostering relations with the EU serves the national interests of Latin American countries, since the EU investment and technologies can be the tools to modernize the economy. The EU is the leader in implementing harmonization between regions. The relations between the EU and Latin America can be considered as a model of hybrid interregionalism. While bilateral relations or the ties of the EU with subregional integration associations remain strong, the relations between the EU and the entire Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region are still underdeveloped, and countries have been trying to rectify it recently.