Poland's solidarity brings Ukraine closer to Europe
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IT HAS taken Russia a long time to find a way to interfere with the eastward expansion of the European Union and Nato.
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Canadians take a keen interest in Ukraine&#39;s well-being. More than a million of us have ties there. Canada was the first Western democracy to recognize Ukraine&#39;s post-Soviet independence in 1991.
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski traveled to Brussels for talks with EU leaders to improve tense ties with the Western bloc.
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Poland signaled on Wednesday it could accept a European Union voting system it has battled against for months, provided it receives a stronger say in the 27-nation bloc's deliberations.
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Poland is to hold a regional referendum to try and defuse a row with the EU and environmentalists.
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Viktor Yushchenko, Ukraine's new pro-western leader, also could receive a further boost from the EU next month when the European Commission is expected to designate his country a "market economy". That move ...
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"I think that many of us feel that this lustration is a Polish version of McCarthyism"  This should be a time for Solidarity veterans to savor.Eighteen years after the collapse of Polish communism, two of their own are perched at the pinnacle of power: Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, identical twins who once advised Solidarity founder Lech Walesa.But instead of relishing their rise, many of the movement's leading activists _ including Walesa himself _ have turned against the Kaczynskis and joined forces with their old enemies, the former communists.They aim to create 'a coalition in defense of democracy in Poland,' said Bronislaw Geremek, an adviser to the Solidarity movement who was foreign minister in the 1997-2000 Solidarity-led government. Read more
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A Polish supporter of Ukrainian presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko signs a 120-metre (390feet) scarf in Yushchenko&#39;s campaign colour orange in downtown Warsaw.
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KYIV, Ukraine  - Vasyl Fylosov and Sofiya Kirichenko came to Kyiv from different regions to join round-the-clock protests in support of opposition presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko.
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PRAGUE, Feb 7 (IPS) - It took 15 years for the World Trade Organisation  (WTO) to finally approve Ukraine's membership, the first  step in what Ukrainian officials hope is the country's  inevitable journey towards the European Union (EU).
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The events in Ukraine have revealed serious problems in relations between Russia and the European Union. It has become obvious that declarations about building a single European home, about unified spaces
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President-elect Viktor Yushchenko met the  European Union's foreign policy chief on Friday ahead of his  inauguration and a packed European tour aimed at setting  Ukraine firmly on a new course closer to the West.
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The European Union's foreign policy chief  met Ukrainian president-elect Viktor Yushchenko on Friday and  said it was up to him and his people to work hard to achieve  their objective of moving toward the West.
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Polish Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski hailed on Tuesday EU's support for Poland 's veto concerning the new EU agreement with Russia as a big success of Poland's diplomacy.Comment
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BUDAPEST, Mar 13 (IPS) - Western-leaning elites in this nominally neutral   country would like to see Ukraine join the  North Atlantic  Treaty Organisation (NATO) despite strong popular  opposition.
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Poland's prime minister said Tuesday that his country has moved closer to hosting a U.S. missile defense facility after President Bush's visit last week.
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BusinessWeek Online - Viktor Yushchenko based his presidential bid on a simple but powerful idea: that Ukraine's destiny lies with Europe, the Europe that believes in fair elections, transparent business dealings, and a free press. No surprise, then, that during a long and tumultuous campaign, Yushchenko repeatedly said that membership in the European Union and NATO would be high priorities in his administration.