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The volume deals with the impact of the EU on the Polish state and governance. Contributors from Politics and Law explore transformation processes, which are influenced by the EU, took place in the legal system, party landscape and various policy fields in Poland. The authors analyze amongs others counterterrorism policy, climate and energy policy, foreign policy as well as gender equality policy of Poland. In addition, the transformation processes in the Polish judiciary, interest representation and parties are discussed.
The point of departure of this article is limited systematic research on the rotating EU Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty. In order to assess rotating presidencies the paper proposes a three-tier approach which includes a functional, a behavioural and a contingency dimension. These dimensions are supplemented by the institutional changes of the Lisbon Treaty referring to the rotating presidencies. Next, the paper applies this evaluation framework to the Polish Presidency that took place in the second half of 2011. Finally, it draws conclusions from the Polish case for both the leadership capacity of the rotating Council Presidency in the post-Lisbon European Union and the performance of Poland’s EU Council Presidency.