Cooperation in trade and environment issues will be the next focus of China-EU relations, as the European Union seeks to push forward bilateral and strategic cooperation, an analyst on the EU affairs said on Friday in Beijing.
Poland – island of stability in the European sea of trouble
Paweł Świeboda for Caijing Magazine (China)
Political history of the world does not know of a more tragic event than the April air-crash which killed the Polish President, his wife and over ninety members of the country’s political elite. Politicians from all sides of the spectrum, from left to right, parished in the tragedy together with chiefs of the armed forces, head of the central bank and many others. The nation went through weeks of mourning, comparable only to what it experienced after the passing away of Pope John Paul II, a great Polish hero, five years ago.
(...) “The result will give the government a lot more confidence to pursue an activist European and foreign policy – with a special emphasis on its presidency, which it takes very seriously,” said Pawel Swieboda, a former foreign ministry official, now head of the Demos Europa think-tank. Read more...
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Can Poland's new president deliver political stability?
Adam Easton, BBC News
(...) "This will be a more stable, predictable cohesive period for the country, one we have never had before," Pawel Swieboda, head of the demosEUROPA think-tank, told the BBC. "He will be a supportive president with the government in the driver's seat and he being more of a helping hand. He will focus on representative functions, social dialogue and discussing future challenges," he said. Read more...
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