A political season usually starts later in Ukraine than in Poland. Christmas holiday falls there in January. However, a Ukrainian political year has not started yet. Normally, the Parliament should resume its session on 5th February but it didn’t. Opposition blocked the parliament’s presidium and rostrum demanding introduction of personal voting. The issue may sound [...]
Yesterday for me everything was all about Ukraine. I will start not very chronologically but in the afternoon the mission Kwasniewski-Cox arrived at the Conference of Presidents of the European Parliament. After a long conversation, which concerned more the relations between the EU and Ukraine, it was decided that the mandate of the mission’s members [...]
The European Parliament is a practical institution. When majority is needed and an issue does not have to be tackled at a Plenary Session, a so called “Conference of Presidents” decides. The word conference is clear. “Presidents” are leaders of political groups. It is known how many swords they have in their scabbards. Thus, it [...]
When William Browder, a grandson of an American Communist and a former presidential candidate Earl Browder, decided to invest in Russia in 1996, everything seemed rather easy. The fund registered in London was thriving with its assets reaching $4billion in a short time. The profits were so high that more than $200 million tax was [...]
We already know what the European policy towards Ukraine will be. The Council of the European Union accepted the guidelines which express an unfavourable attitude towards the election but do not close the door on work towards association agreement implementation. One can say that was the idea. But not exactly. Ministers of foreign affairs exchange [...]
The elections in Ukraine will be held in 5 days. The experience shows that everywhere in the world the results will be a projection of current surveys. So what do they look like? The ruling party (Party of Regions) leads with a score of 22%. The second and third place are occupied ex aequo by [...]
I thought I knew all the election tricks, but Ukraine surprised me once again. A week ago I sent observers to Dnipropetrovsk to see how the campaign is running in the city which I am going to visit during the vote on October 28th. We know that half of the seats will be chosen in [...]
The upcoming parliamentary elections in Ukraine are of particular importance and nature, therefore they require particular preparations. The European Parliament has started arrangements for the observation mission. We have chosen the members and the head of the mission – Mr Pawel Kowal who also leads the Delegation to the EU-Ukraine Parliamentary Cooperation Committee. In the [...]
Obviously foreign ministers have much more time than their colleagues from finance. That is my observation from the brainstorming that recently swept over Warsaw, further moving to the West. After a fruitful debate, the representatives of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain came up with a statement to define [...]
Despite the discussion being divided into separate panels, every debate in Yalta would go down to the financial crisis and functioning of the European Union. If the panel on the Future of Europe includes such speakers as the former Prime Minister of Great Britain Gordon Brown, Turkey’s Minister for EU Affairs and Chief Negotiator Egemen [...]
Marek Siwiec, Polish Member of the European Parliament, writes about European Neighbourhood Policy, defence policy, Polish Presidency of the EU Council, Polish politics and other topics related to European and international affairs. more.
