Poland: Ambitious achievers (Special reports)

Special reports published by EurActiv in September 2014.

+ Poland ‘can offer economic recipe’ to the EU
Poland has proven it is possible to sustain economic growth without relaxing fiscal discipline, MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski told EurActiv.

+ Analysts: Weimar Triangle key for Poland’s new role in EU
Warsaw needs to articulate more clearly its expectations and policy interests in the context of the Weimar Triangle, a format grouping three large members of the EU, France, Poland and Germany, in order to maximise its political leverage in the Union and beyond, analysts told the EurActiv network.

+ Poland hopes Tusk will create an EU Energy Union
In his capacity of Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk has spearheaded the idea of an EU energy Union, and leading Polish politicians expect him to continue to do so as Council President, when he will take up the job from Herman Van Rompuy on 1 December 2014.

+ Poland’s stake in the Ukraine crisis: hawkish or insightful?
Observers generally agree that Warsaw plays a major role in the EU’s handling of the Ukraine crisis. Some call it hawkish, while others say that Poland is simply more insightful, and that the rest of the Union should attach more value to its understanding of Russia, and Eastern Europe.

+ Sikorski: If Poland is hawkish on Ukraine, is Russia a dove?
If the EU had reacted more strongly to Russia's annexation of Crimea and adopted sanction more quickly, as Poland advocated, the currrent conflict in Donetsk, Ukraine, would not have happened, Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski told EurActiv in an exclusive interview.

+ Shale gas in Poland - from exploration to exploitation
There are 65 shale gas wells and drills in Poland, more than any other European country. The UK, the other EU member state with plans to develop the resource, has only a couple of wells.

• Primary Source

EurActiv, 08.09.14: Poland ‘can offer economic recipe’ to the EU http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/poland-can-offer-economic-recipe-eu-308264

EurActiv, 09.09.14: Analysts: Weimar Triangle key for Poland’s new role in EU http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/analysts-weimar-triangle-key-polands-new-role-eu-308297

EurActiv, 10.09.14: Poland hopes Tusk will create an EU Energy Union http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/poland-hopes-tusk-will-create-eu-energy-union-308333

EurActiv, 11.09.14: Poland’s stake in the Ukraine crisis: hawkish or insightful? http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/polands-stake-ukraine-crisis-hawkish-or-insightful-308355

EurActiv, 12.09.14: Sikorski: If Poland is hawkish on Ukraine, is Russia a dove? http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/sikorski-if-poland-hawkish-ukraine-russia-dove-308392

EurActiv, 12.09.14: Shale gas in Poland - from exploration to exploitation http://www.euractiv.com/sections/poland-ambitious-achievers/shale-gas-poland-exploration-exploitation-308387

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