Thirty years ago Polish people didn’t expect that the situation in Poland could be better (Martial Law times). They were predicting a future without colors, cold and bleak. Now Poland is not only in the European Union, but is a very important Member State, too. After six months of the EU rotating presidency we can recap it in the sentence: ‘There were no special fireworks, but no slip-ups either’.

The summary of achievements and failures gives an result with the success of the accession policy with Croatia (signed it) and the big failure in the Eastern Europe – especially treatment of the Lukashenko regime in Belarus and Yulia Tymoshenko on a public trail in the Ukraine.

The next country in queue for the EU leadership will be Denmark.