Finacial Times: Poland rejects idea of EU elite group
Poland has rejected the idea of an informal G6 of the European Union’s largest members, suggested by Italy to address its worries about Franco-German dominance of the EU, in a sign of its unwillingness to jeopardise Warsaw’s close ties with Berlin.
Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s foreign minister, told the Financial Times: “I would be wary of any formal division of countries into categories. We have enough such distinctions already and they make life difficult. Those members that would not participate would feel excluded and resentful.”
The G6 suggestion was made last week by Franco Frattini, Italy’s foreign minister.
The Economist: Poland, Lithuania and self-centredness goes nuclear (blog Eastern approaches)
YIKES! This just in from Interfax: Russia and Poland to sign memorandum for developing Kaliningrad’s electricity grid. This report says that
Russia and Poland plan to sign memorandum for developing the electricity grid system of the Kaliningrad Region in the near future, Russia Energy Minister Sergei Shmatko told journalists after meeting with Polish Deputy Prime Minsiter [sic] and Economic Minister Valdemar Pavlyak.
If true, this is potentially huge as it kyboshes the planned Polish-Lithuanian-Latvian-Estonian joint nuclear power station which is supposedly to be built on the site of the old Ignalina in Lithuania. That is terrible news for the Lithuanians as the Estonians will most likely go ahead with their own nuclear plans,with the Latvians trying to join too. What a lot of damage a few dots and squiggles can cause.
www.economist.com/blogs/easternapproaches/2010/10/poland_and_lithuania
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