Poland set to take over EU presidency

Feuer Frei! · 06-30-11, 09:30 PM

Poland is to take over the rotating presidency of the EU for the first time since it joined the bloc in 2004.
Its priorities for the six-month term include building relations with the EU's eastern and southern neighbours, and encouraging economic growth.
It also says it wants to promote further EU enlargement.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk is hoping that the EU presidency will boost his Civic Platform party and help it retain power in national elections in October.
The BBC's Adam Easton in Warsaw says Poland wants to portray itself as a regional power with ideas worth heeding, with perhaps chief among them a focus on the bloc's eastern neighbours.
It hopes an "Eastern Partnership" summit in September gathering leaders from the EU and six former Soviet nations will give the initiative new impetus, and wants to conclude negotiations on a free trade agreement with Ukraine.

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Skybird · 07-01-11, 02:45 AM

More black coal energy. Bigger EU and more new members. More agricultural aid for Polish farmers - especially and explicitly at the cost of German farmers.

At best the Polish presidency remains as meaningless as the past couple of presidencies. At worst they really mess things up in the EU.

Wait - did I comment on the EU? What a waste of time I am guilty of.

STEED · 07-01-11, 12:13 PM

Flood gates open! And here come the Poles...

Welcome to the UK, Benefit office on your left and on your right feel free to steal our jobs, don't forget to lick the bosses a**e for your lower than minimum wage and ship the money home.

Osmium Steele · 07-01-11, 12:38 PM

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