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The Russian-German Nord Stream gas pipeline. Poland is hoping that shale will reduce its vulnerability to gas politics (Photo: nord-stream.com)

A short guide to the Polish presidency

With Poland taking over the presidency of the European Union on 1 July, EUobserver presents a short non-exhaustive guide:

Calendar restraints - Being a second-half-of-the-year presidency, Warsaw will fall afoul of the EU's famously extended holiday period. Most of the Brussels EU elite starts disappearing in July. The EU capital re-emerges as a complete political city only around the beginning of September. The same Brussels evacuation starts to take place around the mi...

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The Russian-German Nord Stream gas pipeline. Poland is hoping that shale will reduce its vulnerability to gas politics (Photo: nord-stream.com)

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