You could say – this is a model operation with the use of national and European “forces and resources.” When David Cameron warned that he will be turning the bolt for immigrants, including immigrants from the EU, there was an unusual silence. The exception was the inquiry to the Prime Minister from Janusz Palikot (the [...]

Michael Cashman is a Labour Member of the European Parliament. He is a president of the LGBT-rights intergroup. The structure consists of 139 members representing almost all countries and all political groups. I have talked with Michael Cashman about a recent voting on civil partnerships in the Polish Sejm. He was very much interested in [...]

In the common language “a child, a person with special needs” reflects a permanent physical or mental disability. These words were used by Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs to describe the position of Great Britain in the European Union. He could have mentioned an illness, told about a possible treatment, claimed his readiness to help, [...]

My decision to withdraw from the Democratic Left Alliance Party (SLD) was made 23 years after joining its predecessor the Social Democracy of the Republic of Poland. (SdPR). At that time, in the Congress Hall (Sala Kongresowa) it was cold and scary. As a spokesperson of that meeting I had a doubtful pleasure of informing [...]

If the left-wing in the new EU countries has been lately succeeding in anything, it has been mainly due to new political parties. They have appeared on a political arena and forming an alliance with so called “old social democratic parties” they have been gaining the majority of votes. Let me mention for instance Slovenia, [...]

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has become hostage to the promise he made during last year’s election campaign. He promised Poles 300 billion zlotys from the next EU budget. To make it all look credible, he did it in a company of Foreign Minister and two Poles playing the most important roles in the EU [...]

Obviously foreign ministers have much more time than their colleagues from finance. That is my observation from the brainstorming that recently swept over Warsaw, further moving to the West. After a fruitful debate, the representatives of Austria, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Luxembourg, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal and Spain came up with a statement to define [...]

With the beginning of the new political season in Brussels, opinions and signals that came from the European capital cities during the holiday break are being discussed. Among other things the German idea of immediate elaboration of a new treaty as an instrument to fight the crisis and ensure the desired further integration is being [...]

George Friedman is a recognised author and political analyst. His website Stratfor regularly presents analysis on ‘interesting places in the world’. Yesterday Friedman took up the matter of Poland. He addresses his article to a reader who has the right not to know the details of this county’s history. So you can find there a [...]

Romanian Socialists have no luck with their leaders. I mean they have too many of them and they are too ambitious. When the old leader Ion Iliescu left, the leaders of the Social Democratic Party Adrian Nastase and Mircea Geoana fought each other so effectively that each of them, practically having the victory in the [...]