Poland has upheld its veto on the EU's "common position" on a new EU-Russia treaty, jeopardising the possibility of launching negotiations on the new pact at the EU-Russia summit on 24 November.
"We upheld our position at COREPER [a 15 November meeting of EU ambassadors in Brussels]," a Polish official told EUobserver. "There is no progress in work on the [negotiating] mandate."
Warsaw is pushing for Russia to end a year-long Polish meat and vegetable import embargo and to let EU...
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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.