Eastern countries waiting for Poland’s ‘natural sympathy’

EUObserver reports that with events in north Africa having taken up much of the EU's attention in the first six months of 2011, the bloc's eastern neighbours are hoping Poland will put them back on the agenda when it takes over the rotating EU Presidency for the period July-December 2011.

Gazeta Wyborcza, 11.7.11: A policy that moves slowly, but surely (via PressEurop) http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/769121-policy-moves-slowly-surely

ECFR: Policy Brief, May 2011: Turning presence into power: Lessons from the Eastern neighbourhood http://www.ecfr.eu/page/-/ECFR31_ENP_AW.pdf

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