Poland is threatening to veto a new EU-Russia "Strategic Partnership Treaty" unless the text calls on Russia to ratify an earlier Energy Charter Treaty (ECT) on gas and oil market access, in the latest in a line of unilateral positions taken by Warsaw.
Asked by EUobserver in Warsaw on Thursday (9 November) if Poland would block the EU's common position on the Strategic Partnership Treaty if it does not contain an explicit call for ECT ratification, Poland's Europe minister Witold Sobkow...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.