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POLAND’S SIX-MONTH term at the head of the EU begins today.
The BBC notes that the country wants to promote further EU enlargement and build relations with the EU’s eastern and southern neighbours.
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk will face elections during the country’s presidency.
Poland is to host an ‘Eastern Partnership’ summit in September which will involve leaders from the EU and a number of former Soviet nations.
Polish website The News says that the country’s Ministry of Sport and Tourism will make tackling sports corruption and doping one of its priorities.
There have been a number of corruption allegations in Polish sport in recent times and sports ministry spokesman Jakub Kwiatkowski told Polish radio that Poland is to ask UEFA for help on the issue.
A further priority for Poland will be managing the sovereign debt crisis affecting Europe.
Negotiations will begin this year over the next EU budget, with Poland said to argue for a bigger budget to encourage growth.
Poland is the largest country to join the EU since its expansion and takes over from Hungary in holding the presidency for the latter half of 2011.
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The issue of the 6 month EU presidency has become a complete irrelevance. I had no idea Hungary held the position til yesterday, as I’m sure was the case for most EU citizens
Yep, John…
Perhaps they will also take this opportunity to tackle the rampant homophobia in their country and also pass legislation to protect the GLBT community from discrimination (like they’re supposed to do in accordance with EU directives).
IF ANYONE MENTIONS POLISH PEOPLE TAKING OUR JOBS OR ANYTHING DUMB LIKE THAT, I SWEAR TA MICKEY, I’M GOING TO THUMBS YE DOWN! >:O
This is the guy (Donald Tusk) who came over to Ireland during pre-election and made speeches to polish immigrants “Vote for us, we will turn Poland into Ireland for you there to come back home”. This slogan has turned into number of funny jokes later on amongs Poles (when Irish crisis started) as everybody realized he turned Ireland into Poland by mistake, he certainly kept his promise, but meant to do the other way around lol :-) Tusk and his party (PO) are complete clowns, I wouldn’t be surprised if EU collapses Monday morning if they got presidency today :)
ROTFLMAO
Thanks fizi_water!
THUMBS DOWN.
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