European Border Agency likely to locate in Poland or Hungary

The agency, responsible for protecting the borders of the enlarged EU, will be one of the EU's more prominent bodies, believes Interior Minister Józef Oleksy. Although several other acceding countries, most notably Hungary, are also bidding to have the agency located in their country, Poland is unofficially believed to have a good chances of winning it. The fact that it will have the longest stretch (1,200 km) of the EU's border out of all acceding countries is a strong argument, as is Germany's unofficial support of the Polish bid. (Rzeczpospolita, Feb. 21-22, p. A1) T.J.