EU – Poland is taking over from Hungary the 6-month rotating EU presidency from 1st January. The international media expect Poland to be much more focused on cooperation than Hungary, in an effort to press ahead with European issues such as support for Ukraine. Poland is one of Kyiv’s strongest supporters, while Hungary’s nationalist leader Viktor Orban vexed Brussels by travelling to Moscow in July to meet Russian president Vladimir Putin. The Polish presidency gets under way against the backdrop of Donald Trump’s return to the White House, with the Europeans fearing a disengagement with Ukraine from the US and commercial tensions with the US, commentators also note.
