European Economic Summit in Warsaw sees biggest security operation to date

Naturally, security for the VIP shindig is set to be tight, with deputy Interior Minister Andrzej Brachmański claiming, "The operation of securing the summit is the largest in history of modern Poland." Topics up for discussion include the implications of EU enlargement, relations between the EU and future members and transatlantic relations between the EU, the USA and NATO. President Aleksander Kwaśniewski is scheduled to meet with attendant presidents, while the host country will be further represented by soon-to-resign Prime Minister Leszek Miller, European Minister Danuta Huebner, and Marek Belka, Kwaśniewski's man for the prime minister's job. Other key figures set to fly the national flag are Jerzy Hausner and Foreign Minister Włodzimierz Cimoszewicz. Indeed, the event has been described rather gushingly by Jerzy Koźmiński, former ambassador to the US and head of the committee organizing the summit, as the "most significant event on the continent before the day of Poland's accession to the EU." (Parkiet, p. 1) A.K.