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Mix-Ansicht- Polen bleibt stolz (mL) - zani, 09.01.2004, 09:38
Polen bleibt stolz (mL)
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Das us-troianische Pferd bestätigt sein anhaltendes Leiden an seiner demokratiefremden Tradition.
Sollte Doppel-EU kommen, dann dĂĽrfen sie schon aus SicherheitsgrĂĽnden nicht in der Tempotruppe sein.
Odds lengthen on Huebner EU role
Poland’s hot favourite for EU commissioner, Danuta Huebner, has been hit by a wave of opposition over her compromising stance on the European constitution.
Her chances of picking up one of the EU’s top jobs on the European Commission in May look to be dwindling as government and opposition members undermine her candidature for giving too much ground to France and Germany in the complex battle for voting rights.
Previously, Huebner, the Polish minister for Europe, had been considered a dead cert for commissioner, helped by the fact that European Commission president Romano Prodi had insisted that at least three of the ten new candidates be women.
Meanwhile Prodi already has two official female candidates in the bag from the Baltic states of Latvia and Lithuania.
Polish prime minister Leszek Miller had promised to present his candidate by the end of December but following his helicopter crash and the acrimonious Brussels summit the decision was postponed.
Opposition to Huebner has come from Jozef Olesky, Poland’s representative on the European Convention which drafted the constitution text, and President Aleksander Kwasniewski, who has recently also expressed doubts over Miller’s physical ability to remain prime minister.
The growing opposition to Huebner shows Polish political sentiment is still uncompromising over guarding the voting rights it won at the Nice summit in 2000 and is unwilling to give up under a new constitution.
“Huebner proved a failure as regards the defence of Polish interests,” Kazimierz Ujazdowski, deputy leader of the opposition party PiS, told FT Deutschland.
“She belongs before a state tribunal not in the [European] Commission,” said Roman Giertych of the League of Polish Families.
Conversely, the European Women’s Lobby has defended Mrs Huebner’s “overall excellence” and her “complete understanding of European processes”.
Mary McPhail, Secretary General of the EWL, added “we are keen to see women like her and specifically her in strong positions”.
Latvia and Lithuania have had no such troubles.
On Thursday, Riga put forward Sandra Kalniete, the 47-year-old foreign minister who was brought up in Serbia after her parents were deported by Soviet authorities.
She was a dissident under communism and has since served as Latvian ambassador to France and the UN.
Prodi was said to be"glad about the choice".
Vilnius has opted for finance minister Dalia Grybauskaite who formerly served as ambassador to the US and as a negotiator for Lithuania’s accession to the EU.
If approved by Prodi, the commissioners will start work on May 1 learning the ropes by shadowing the current commission members in an unwieldy executive of 30 people.
They face a short term in office as the new 25-strong commission for 2004-2009 will take office from November 2004.
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