Tag: Poland

Poland said no excessive meaning should be attached to the fact that the USA is sending a low-level delegation to a commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the beginning of World War II, the Polish press reported.

Like France and Germany, Poland could buck the EU trend and emerge from recession early next year, according to recent forecasts by Polish economists. However, the IMF warned that such predictions could be premature. EurActiv Poland contributed to this article.

In a swift move to replace commissioners recently-elected to the European Parliament or office in their member states, Poland and Lithuania have nominated Paweł Samecki and Algirdas Šemeta to join European Commission President José Manuel Barroso's team.

Polish Civic Platform (PO) MEP Jerzy Buzek's nomination as chair of the European Parliament's centre-right EPP-ED group would be "a great sign of openness," Dominique Lesage, a Polish candidate of French origin running on the Warsaw list of Prime Minister Donald Tusk's PO party in the EU elections, told EurActiv in an interview.

Just days ahead of the EU elections, Conservatives and Eurosceptics in the UK, the Czech Republic and Poland formed a new political alliance over the weekend. They vowed to fight against what they see as the growing federalisation of the European Union.

Libertas, the pan-European party founded by controversial Irish millionaire Declan Ganley, appears to be wiping its election rivals from public TV stations, new air-time results show. EurActiv Poland reports.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Central and Eastern European countries will push for the Nabucco gas pipeline project during an EU summit on 19-20 March in Brussels. The statement came as Germany refused to back public funding for the pipeline, which aims to reduce the EU’s dependency on Russian gas.

Governments and EU officials are struggling to formulate a coherent response to the economic and financial turmoil that has started to engulf the eastern part of the Old Continent. EurActiv presents a round-up of national situations with contributions from its network.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy made a mistake by opposing Georgia's NATO membership bid, former Polish President Aleksander Kwaśniewski told EurActiv Poland in an interview. But his negotiating experience with Moscow following the Russia-Georgia conflict made him understand how difficult the Russians are, he added.

The EU summit today (16 October) postponed a decision to resume talks on a new partnership agreement with Moscow until an EU-Russia summit in Nice, scheduled for 14 November.

Europe should not fear Russia like it did before the fall of the Berlin Wall, despite Moscow's temptation to revert to posturing from the past, the historic leader of the Polish anti-communist movement 'Solidarność' and former Polish President Lech Wałęsa told EurActiv Poland in an interview.

An EU ambassadors meeting ahead of the crisis summit convened by French President Nicolas Sarkozy on 1 September ended yesterday (28 August) without consensus on the level of sanctions to be applied against Russia following the Georgia conflict.

Eurosceptic Czech President Vaclav Klaus has confirmed that he will not sign his country's Lisbon Treaty ratification unless Ireland ratifies it first. The statement was made following a meeting with his Polish colleague and fellow Treaty critic Lech Kaczynski on 24 July.

Bronislaw Geremek, an icon of the anti-communist movement in Poland who upturned the post-World War II status quo - ultimately leading to the reunification of Europe - died in a car crash on 13 July. Tributes poured in acknowledging the contribution of Geremek to democracy in Poland and Europe.

Czech Deputy Premier Alexandr Vondra has rejected a warning from French President Nicolas Sarkozy that EU enlargement will have to be stopped unless the Lisbon Treaty is ratified as a "kind of a lie", adding to a growing chorus of criticism from European leaders on the issue.

Although discrimination in general has decreased on the European continent in the past years, discrimination based on ethnic origin it is still perceived as widespread, with Roma in particular facing high levels of prejudice, according to a new Eurobarometer.

Polish President Lech Kaczyński will only complete the ratification procedure of the Lisbon Treaty once there is no doubt the text will indeed enter into force, Polish Permanent Representative to the EU Jan Tombiński told EurActiv in an interview.

As the two sides prepare to launch talks for a wide-ranging bilateral treaty at a summit in Siberia this week, Europeans should not expect Moscow to change its well-known positions, Vladimir Chizhov, the Russian ambassador to the EU, told journalists in Brussels ahead of the meeting.

Shortages of skilled workers are prompting governments in the EU's newer eastern members to develop strategies to lure back their nationals from richer western countries. But often the salaries offered back home remain well below workers' expectations. EurActiv's network of eastern media affiliates reports from the region.

Following France's example with the EuroMed proposal, Poland and Sweden are due to present an 'Eastern Initiative' at a meeting next week, in a move which diplomats warned could ruin the EU's patient efforts to craft a common external policy.

A new basic treaty between the EU and Russia may be given the green light at a 29 April General Affairs and External Relations Council in Luxembourg. Only one of the 27 EU countries - Lithuania - has expressed reservations ahead of the meeting.

Donald Tusk's centre-right Civic Platform, the winner of Poland's snap elections on 21 October, has clinched a coalition deal between his party and the smaller Polish Peasants' Party.

The 21 October election in Poland was of historical significance as it was the first in which the 18-year-old first-time voters were born after the end of communist rule in 1989, writes Krzysztof Bobinski for Open Democracy.

Donald Tusk, the Polish prime minister-designate who won snap elections on 21 October, says he is ready to clinch a coalition deal between his party - the centre-right Civic Platform - and the smaller Polish Peasants' Party.