Poland upheld its veto on EU-Russia treaty talks on Friday despite a rash of meetings with EU leaders at a summit in Brussels, but Polish president Lech Kaczynski said a solution is likely by the end of the year.
"It seemed like even today we might come to a compromise, but no. It's just a question of a few more days now - I can afford to be optimistic," the Pole said, with EU ambassadors now set to haggle over the finer points of the compromise next week ahead of the final chance for a...
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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.