• Warsaw says EU presidency is in good hands
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  • 02.01.2009

 

The Czech Republic is the first post-communist country to take the helm of the European Union.

Report by Michał Kubicki

The priorities of Poland’s foreign policy are in tune with the motto of the Czech presidency – ‘Europe without barriers’. Warsaw hopes a Polish-Swedish Partnership Programme – a forum for regional cooperation between the 27 EU member states and Ukraine, Moldova, Georgia, Azerbaijan and Armenia, as well as with Belarus at the experts’ level – will be an important area of contacts between Warsaw and Prague in coming months.

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