In addition to bilateral issues, the ministers discussed key topics on the current European agenda, such as Brexit, the Multiannual Financial Framework, the internal market and EU’s internal and external security.

Other issues addressed during the meeting included the single market with respect to which there are many contact points between the two countries. Deputy Minister Szymański referred in this context to the joint letter by 17 prime ministers addressed to the President of the European Council on the future of the single market. This document, signed in February this year by Poland and Sweden, among other countries, started close cooperation among its signatories. “We are specifically satisfied that the key messages regarding the future development of the single market drafted by like-minded countries concern services and the digital economy and its role in increasing the EU’s global competitiveness. We hope that our common priorities will be reflected in the Strategic Agenda that will be agreed upon in the coming days,” observed the deputy head of the MFA.

The Baltic Pipe, which will run through the Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone and under Swedish law requires a permit to be installed on the seabed, was another important topic of the meeting. “The Baltic Pipe is a Polish and a European project at the same time. It is a real measure aimed at building a genuine gas market in order to diversify gas supplies and, by so doing, to improve the security in the Baltic Sea region,” said the deputy chief of Polish diplomacy.

 

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