“Hello, Poland!” she wrote on Wednesday in Polish Ursula von der Leyen on the X portal. This is how the President of the European Commission commented on the start of the Polish presidency of the EU Council.
“I'm glad that the Polish presidency focuses on security our Union in all its dimensions (…). I'm grateful we have it Poland's determination and European spirit on our side, added von der Leyen.
Polish Presidency of the EU Council. The head of the European Commission comments
To second timewhen Poland holds the presidency of the EU Council – the previous one took place in the second half of the year 2011. This time the motto will be: “Security, Europe“Poland will want to focus on its seven dimensions: external, internal, information, economic, energy, food and health.
The Presidency of the Council of the EU is held in rotation system successively by all Member States, starting from January and July of the given year. Representatives of the country holding the presidency are responsible, among others, for: for setting the agenda meetings of individual Council bodies and conducting negotiations among member states.
Presidency of the EU Council: Poland will host 300 meetings and 40,000. people
Over the next six months, more than 300 meetings clerical and ministerial meetings, including 22 informal councils with the participation of EU ministers. The first one will be scheduled for January 21 and 22 meeting of education ministers. The next one, scheduled for January 30 and 31, will be meeting of ministers for justice and interior affairs. However, there will be no informal summit of EU leaders in Poland – it is scheduled for February 3 Brussels.
Another almost 200 initiatives are cultural events, the first of which will be gala concert at the Grand Theater-National Opera – to on January 3 will symbolically inaugurate the presidency. On that day, the following people will arrive in Warsaw: boss European Council Antonio Costaa delegation from Ukraine is also expected.
As announced from January to June our country has a total of over 40 thousand guests. The corps of the Polish Presidency, including all officials involved in its preparation, counts 3 thousand people.
The Polish presidency of the EU Council begins. “Set the tone”
The Polish Presidency falls on the beginning of a new five-year cycle institutional – the composition of the new one European Commission The EP approved it at the end of November, and the first summit under Costa's chairmanship took place in mid-December.
As the deputy minister at the Chancellery of the Prime Minister, Magdalena Sobkowiak-Czarnecka, emphasized, the EU begins to design his plans for the next five years. – So our presidency will be inaugural presidency. Therefore, we will not fight about how many cases we will close, but about how many we will impose a new tone – she said.
Important issues for Poland include: strengthening security and resilience of the Community, but also competitiveness. – As the presidency, we will strive for avoiding the so-called overshoot. We remember report Draghiego and other signals that prove that excess regulations may harm us more than help us, emphasized the deputy minister.
The system was introduced in 2009 by the Treaty of Lisbon presidency trio – this means cooperation between the three countries holding the presidency in turn. He is in a trio with Poland – just like in 2011 Daniawho will take over the presidency in July 2025, and Cypruswho will hold office in the first half of 2026. At the end of December, the Hungarian presidency ended.