The German EU presidency is set to inherit the problem of Poland's veto on starting EU-Russia treaty talks, after the last EU ambassadors' meeting of 2006 ended Wednesday (20 December) with no agreement on the issue.
"Theoretically, the Finnish EU presidency could still send a new compromise text to Poland that would be acceptable and then the veto could be lifted by written procedure [instead of an ambassadors' meeting]," an EU diplomat explained. "But as there is no new compromise, th...
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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.