I am talkig to myself anyway so I will continue something which slowly becomes(yeah, right - it already IS) a mini-blog.



So OK, Sarko visited Poland - pretty nice.

Despite the fact he was invited by our moro...president and his government-in-the-exile-hoping-to-return-one-day formed from most peculiar people in the government of his brother it wasn't actually spoiled which is a huge success already !

A lot of blah, blah, blah about PolishFranco-Polish friendship and cooperation with some nice words in the Sejm - some say that Sarkozy was more interested in Joanna Mucha
Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 
here with Radek Sikorski

than in the speech he prepared, but let's ignore that already.

The good things were the repeated French support to the project of the Eastern Partnership and the agreement that we will pay our debt to France sooner than expected (good for us to avoid additional costs) circa 250 million Euro.

The rest is a mystery, certainly after the visit of 'Prime Minister' Putin the next day.

Anyway the Eastern Partnership is coming along nicely and that would be actually everything I am interested in.

From the Economist

Other countries are moving to counter what they see as Germany's overly Russia-friendly policies. Poland and Sweden this week launched their own plan, called the “eastern partnership”, to offer generous trade and other co-operation to Ukraine and Georgia, as well as to other interested countries. The aim is to recreate the model of the “Visegrad” group of four central European countries in the early 1990s, which helped ex-communist states to prepare for what at the time seemed the highly uncertain prospect of EU membership.

For the first time in any EU initiative, the plan explicitly includes Belarus (albeit only on a “technical” level for now). Russian regions such as Kaliningrad are also welcome to apply for some of the goodies that a partnership agreement can offer, such as better border crossings and environmental projects. Ex-communist Poland and rich, neutral Sweden may prove an effective combination. Their forceful foreign ministers, Radek Sikorski and Carl Bildt, get on well. Bravery is good. But brains are even better."
Good idea to involve Sweden in the project - even if makes any future claims of 'Swedish aggression' a bit less ridiculous.
Believe me you will hear such eventually.