Tusk won't change much

06.12.2007 / 00:00 CET

The profile of Donald Tusk (‘Low-key liberal', 29 November-5 December) was highly interesting. But it almost confirmed my doubts that Tusk's appointment as head of the government in Poland will mark little more than a change of style – at least in the first phase. The new government has certainly made many pro-European ‘noises' and gestures. But I do not think it will change Poland's position on many issues. On some matters, it is because President Lech Kaczynski is still calling the shots (in foreign affairs, for instance) and on others, because the government would be too unpopular if it acted the way its European partners want it too. A welcome change of guard, but don't hold your breath for a different Poland.

Lucien Mathieu
Brussels

Donald Tusk drew not only on the European Parliament in forming his new government (‘MEPs taken to Tusk', 22-28 November). The new minister of the environment, Professor Maciej Nowicki, was a delegate to the European Economic and Social Committee's Consultative Committee on Industrial Change.

Martin Westlake
Brussels

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