The end of the EU's Polish veto row seemed a step closer after French and German leaders gave political backing to a visibly happy Polish president Lech Kaczynski at a Weimar Triangle summit in Mettlach, southwest Germany, on Tuesday (5 December).
"We talked about the meat issue. I feel that we got a certain solidarity, a certain scope of solidarity, when it comes to all of the efforts to change the state of affairs," Mr Kaczynski said, adding he "hopes" EU-Russia treaty talks "will s...
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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.