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 [...]

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 [...]

American politicians are trying to guess or predict, according to American doctrines, who may be Mitt Romney as president of the United States. It is not an easy task because the Republican candidate started his contacts with the world by hosting in his family house, in his youth, an Italian student. Then he visited Europe [...]

The U.S. ambassador in Warsaw, Lee Feinstein, ends his mission in Poland. And this is not because his term will be shortened. In fact a three year term of office is a norm in professional diplomacy in the United States. It is good that he will not stay for longer because during his term Americans [...]

A few days ago I noticed an optimistic statement made by of US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides on abolition of visas for Poles. However, it turns out that the Republicans do not lose any opportunity to disrupt the Democrats. After all, the Democratic Senator from Maryland Barbara Mikulski is pushing the project at [...]

I believe there is a high probability that by the end of this year the matter of US visas for Poles will be resolved. A few days ago US Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides said that the White House and Department of State are working together so that the Congress adopt the necessary legislation [...]

Today starts the celebration which, regardless of the results, will bring us a lot of joy. There was never such an event (which goes far beyond the epithet ‘sport’) in Poland before, even though we tried more than once. Let me remind that Zakopane was to host the Olympics and Wroclaw – Expo 2012. But [...]

I AM WRITING THIS TEXT IN CAPITALS BECAUSE THE ADDRESSEES OF THE PREVIOUS ONE (published on Wednesday) COULD HAVE SOME DIFFICULTIES READING IT. WHAT ELSE MUST HAPPEN TO MAKE POLISH DIPLOMACY WORK? The previous text – 50 days of travel in a minefield Yesterday, for a couple of hours, strange information was circulating around. It [...]

My yesterday’s comments on the Polish-Lithuanian relations have aroused great interest of my colleagues Members of the EP Budget Committee. They told me that at this stage of negotiations on the future financial perspective nothing has been decided, and the payers give the impression that they are not rushing to resolve the difficult dilemmas. No [...]