The Hungarian government has officially handed over the European Presidency to Poland after it’s six-month turn in the rotating post, but one aspect of the country’s largely forgettable semester in charge will remain, at least until the end of the year.

In the early days of U.S. President Barack Obama’s administration, then-U.S. Ambassador to Poland Victor Ashe wrote to the White House that Polish leaders were beginning to fear that they had “become an afterthought, or even a nuisance, in Washington circles.”