UPDATE (18:20) – The FT’s Peter Spiegel and Alex Barker are reporting that Belgium’s Karel De Gucht, currently serving as EU Trade Commissioner, could be a late entry into the race for High Representative.Like former Estonian Prime Minister Andrus Ansi…
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Ashton, EU High Rep, EUCO, European Commission, Georgieva, italy, juncker, Mogherini, Poland, Renzi, Sikorski, Tusk |
The leaked conversation in which senior Polish politicians including Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski savage Cameron’s EU strategy – exclusively translated into English by Open Europe yesterday – is all over the UK press today.Many of the stories hav…
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Anglo-Polish relations, British diplomacy, Cameron, EU reform, Poland, Sikorski, UK media |
June 23, 2014
As far as leaked tapes are concerned, this is extraordinary – and Open Europe offers the first translation of it all. Poland has been rocked by a political scandal involving the covert surveillance of senior government ministers, state officials – incl…
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access to benefits, Cameron, EU free movement, EU reform, Poland, Rostowski, Sikorski, Tusk, Wprost tapes |
Soon to be a regular sight over Baltic skies?The Ukrainian crisis has shown up the short-term limitations of the EU’s ‘soft power’ in the face of a determined Russian regime not afraid of wielding its ‘hard power’. Though we would argue that in the lon…
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britain in europe, Carl Bildt, Crimea crisis, Estonia, EU-Russia relations, military action, nato, russia, Sikorski, soft power vs hard power, Ukraine |
January 6, 2014
The lifting of transitional controls on Romanians and Bulgarians hasn’t done much to calm the debate about EU free movement and EU migrants’ access to the UK benefits system with David Cameron again floating changes to the rules around child benef…
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access to benefits, britain in europe, Cameron, EU free movement, EU reform, Sikorski, twitter diplomacy |
Well, this one snowballed quickly. The number of countries either implicated – or feeling the need to comment on – “Handygate” (as the Germans call it) is growing by the minute. Here’s a round-up.Germany: The fallout over allegations that the NSA …
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Cameron, Carl Bildt, Costos, France, germany, Greenwald, hacking, handy-gate, Hollande, italy, Merkel, NSA, Obama, Sikorski, Snowden, Spain |
To some, the Commission’s decision, two weeks ago, to take the UK to the ECJ over its rules on EU migrants’ access to welfare was further evidence of an ‘isolated’ UK. However, there are a whole host of other countries concerned and eager to …
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access to benefits, EU free movement, EU reform, immigration, Netherlands, Sikorski |
Europe’s next foreign minister?With the current Commission term due to expire next year speculation is already turning to who will replace the current crop – especially the ‘top jobs’ of Commission President (or will Barroso go for a Roosevelt-es…
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catherine ashton, EU defence policy, eu foreign minister, EU foreign policy, Poland, Sikorski |
March 30, 2012
Speaking to the Polish Parliament yesterday, Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski pointed the finger at the UK for not pulling its weight in the domain of European defence, claiming that he was “disappointed” that the UK did not want to build up joint EU…
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