Former French president Valery Giscard d'Estaing has said the eurozone should stop enlarging after Poland joins in order to create a "hard core" in the EU. The 87-year-old politician, who also helped draft the EU's ...

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Tuesday (19 February) said his country will only join the euro once it is "100 percent ready," with 2017 said to be the date the government is aiming for. Addressing the national ...

Germany and Poland, as well as the Czech republic and Sweden, have put forward joint ideas on how to handle post-Soviet countries, in what some diplomats are calling a "new axis" in EU foreign policy. The four nations ...

The European Commission has blocked over €4 billion of money for Polish roads, causing dismay in the run-up to an EU budget summit next week. It took the decision after the Polish prosecutor accused 11 people - 10 of ...

Britain has lost its place in the club of leading EU nations with France and Germany over its plan to hold a referendum on EU membership, the Polish foreign minister has said. "The Prime Minister [the UK's David Cameron ...

The European Commission has said that Poland's prosecution of a rock group for "blasphemy" is against European values. It said on Wednesday (31 October) in a written statement for EUobserver that "national blasphemy ...

EU budget negotiations are famous for bringing out the worst of what's-in-it-for-me politics. Every seven years, the EU's coffers need to be refilled. All governments contribute. The cash is then redistributed among ...

MEPs on the European Parliament's environment committee have adopted a report highlighting the dangers of shale gas. The vote on Wednesday (19 September) - by a whopping 63 against one with one abstention - sets the ...

Bulgaria has halted plans to join the euro in the latest public setback for the beleaguered currency union. Speaking in an interview with the Wall Street Journal on Monday (3 September) in Sofia, Prime Minister Boyko ...

US presidential candidate Mitt Romney has described Poland as an economic model for Europe in the financial crisis. Speaking at the Warsaw University Library in the Polish capital on Tuesday (31 July) he said: "Today, ...

Warsaw's latest battle against efforts to 'green' Europe's economy is being played out in the European Parliament's regional affairs committee. Polish-designed technical texts could kill the environment-friendly ...

The European Commission has warned that skittish foreign investors constitute a "new risk" for the Polish economy. Writing in a series of reports on the economic situation in the 27 EU countries on Wednesday (30 May), ...

Ukraine's EU ambassador has told justice commissioner Vivianne Reding that she should be less "emotional" in a riposte to her Euro2012 boycott. The diplomat, Konstiantin Yelisieiev, in a letter dated 2 May - and seen by ...

The President of Poland - which is co-hosting Euro2012 with Ukraine - has accused EU politicians planning to boycott Ukrainian matches of ulterior motives. Speaking on national TV on Wednesday (2 May), Bronislaw ...

Diplomats from 'new' member states who apply for jobs in Catherine Ashton's foreign service are consistently losing out to 'old' candidates and to existing EU officials. Details on recruitment for 181 posts last year ...

EU Council chief Herman Van Rompuy has said in a letter to outgoing Russian President Dmitri Medvedev that Russia's internatioinal reputation is at stake over the murder of lawyer Sergei Magnitsky. The one-page note, ...

Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski has said the EU could unravel and the US might quit Nato, leaving Poland alone to face an increasingly assertive Russia. He painted the "black scenario" in a speech to MPs in ...

Seven years after the Washington Post broke the story and amid ongoing European Parliament efforts to get to the truth, Poland has become the first EU country to indict one of its officials over CIA renditions. Polish ...

A cell in a top security penal colony in eastern Belarus is now home to human rights defender Ales Bialistki, a man whose relentless pursuit of freedom for his fellow citizens is costing him four and a half years' hard ...

Polish environment minister Marcin Korolec has said he will veto an EU proposal for CO2 cuts at a meeting in Brussels on Friday (9 March). The minister told Polish press agency, Pap, in Warsaw on Wednesday: "Our ...

On Friday 10th February, Greek unions in Athens held a 48-hour general strike after the country's cabinet passed a package of austerity measures demanded by the "troika". To show solidarity, a selection of ...

The Dutch far-right Freedom Party (PVV), a key ally of the centre-right coalition government, on Wednesday (8 February) opened up a website to collect complaints about people from Central and Eastern Europe residing in ...

Poland has indicated it might not sign the EU fiscal treaty unless it is allowed to take part in future eurozone summits. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk criticised the latest draft of the compact - which envisages ...

EU politicians praised Poland on Wednesday (14 December) for the way it has handled the six-month rotating presidency during what is considered the biggest crisis in European Union history. “The Polish presidency was ...

Opposition leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski has said Polish leaders at last week's EU summit sold the country's sovereignty to Germany for the sake of "private interests." Kaczynski made the accusations at a rally in Warsaw on ...

This week, the European Parliament will devote a committee meeting to the issue of shale gas development. It places shale gas, practically unheard of as an energy source five years ago, squarely in the spotlight. No one ...

Polish foreign minister Radek Sikorski and fellow government members on Sunday (25 September) prayed at a special mass devoted to EU solidarity amid the financial crisis. The liturgy, in the church of Wladyslaw z ...

The Polish government has told voters that its man in Brussels, Janusz Lewandowski, will help it get more EU money, testing the meaning of the budget commissioner's oath of neutrality. The ruling centre-right Civic ...