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Two Steps Closer to the EU
WARSAW, Mar 28, 2002 -- (Warsaw Voice) Poland closed another two chapters
in its accession negotiations with the European Union March 22: the
chapter on the free movement of capital and the one on taxation. Jan
Truszczynski, Poland's chief negotiator, said in Brussels that closing the
two negotiation areas "Confirmed that Poland remains decidedly on the
right track and that the Polish negotiation strategy, designed to
successfully complete membership negotiations by the end of the year, is
feasible and realistic."
EU Commissioner for Enlargement Gunter Verheugen expressed satisfaction
with the agreement with Poland on the sale of farmland, one of the most
controversial issues of the negotiations. "Closing negotiations with
Poland on the free movement of capital is a turning point," Verheugen
said. "This area, covering sensitive issues such as the purchase of land
and second homes, was one of the most difficult, politically and
psychologically, in the negotiations with Poland." Verheugen added that
"The EU has made a great deal of effort to meet Poland's specific needs.
This shows that the EU treats the sensitivity and specific concerns of
individual member countries seriously."
Meanwhile, Danish Ambassador to the EU Poul Christophersen, who presided
over the negotiation sessions with the candidate countries, admitted that
some member countries the criticized manner in which the agreement was
made on the terms of selling farmland. Christophersen referred to talks
conducted by Polish Prime Minister Leszek Miller at a summit in Barcelona
March 15 with the leaders of the Netherlands, Germany and Britain. The
overlooking of smaller EU countries in top-level negotiations drew
criticism from some of these countries at a meeting of the Committee of
Permanent Representatives (Ambassadors) in Brussels.
According to EU diplomats, by completing talks in the two areas Poland cut
short speculation that it might lag behind other leading candidate
countries and fail to close the negotiations this year. Slovenia is still
first among the candidate countries in terms of the largest number of
closed negotiation areas, 26 of 29, ahead of Cyprus, the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Lithuania and Hungary (each 24), Latvia and Slovakia (each 23),
Poland (22) and Malta (21). Bulgaria and Romania are at the bottom of the
list, with 14 and nine areas closed respectively. They admit that they
will not manage to complete negotiations this year and join the EU in
2004.
Poland's representatives in the European Convention, which is debating the
future of the EU, supported a strengthening of the EU through moves such
as expanding the principle of making decisions by majority vote. "We want
a strong Europe, a Europe building unity without blurring differences,"
stated Jozef Oleksy, who represents the Sejm in the Convention, in his
first official statement at a Convention session. The two-day session
began March 21 at the headquarters of the European Parliament in Brussels.
"If you ask me, I would support expanding the rule for voting by qualified
majority, but for each member country there are specific areas in which
protection of fundamental national interests-cultural, moral and
economic-is unusually important," said Danuta Hubner, minister for
European affairs and the representative of the Polish government.
"Without a doubt, we in Poland also have one or two spheres in which we
feel we would need absolute guarantees that the EU will not make any major
changes likely to influence society without our consent," she said. In
this context, she mentioned "issues linked with morality such as
abortion," and in the next breath-"culture" and "the right to our own
language."
(C) 2002 Warsaw Voice
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