Article: EU/RUSSIA/POLAND : EU-RUSSIA PARTNERSHIP TALKS STILL IN LIMBO.

The high-level meeting between Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, on 8 February, failed to break a prolonged stalemate over the start of EU-Russia talks on a new partnership agreement. Despite recent moves signalling that relations between Moscow and Warsaw are gradually improving and against a time pressure (the negotiations have been delayed for more than a year), Tusk failed to identify any date for the Polish veto, imposed in November 2006 as a response to Russia's ban on Polish meat and plant products, to be finally lifted.

Following a meeting with Putin, Tusk said that he was hopeful "to quickly reach an agreement ...

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