Hungary toasts Poland's EU helm with cask of wine
Hungary toasts Poland's EU helm with cask of wine
Jul 1, 2011 6
(AFP) – Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban on Friday gave his Polish counterpart Donald Tusk a 15-litre cask of wine to toast Poland's six-month European Union presidency.
"I have brought with me a cask of wine to drink to the success of the Polish presidency," Orban told reporters as he handed over leadership of the 27-nation bloc to Tusk, together with an EU flag.
Poland is the fourth ex-communist country to hold the rotating presidency after Slovenia in 2008, the Czech Republic in 2009 and Hungary in the first half of this year.
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