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Could Trump be good for Europe?
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Nov 11,2024
WARSAW — Before the US presidential election, it seemed like no one but Donald Trump’s staunchest supporters believed he could win.
The strongest army in Europe?
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Aug 27,2023
 WARSAW — There is a growing belief that Poland will soon have Europe’s strongest army. Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has not missed any opportunity to drum this message home, and one increasingly hears it being echoed abroad, too.
Graindämmerung for Poland's populists?
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Jul 06,2023
 WARSAW — A new, unprecedented grain crisis is upon us. It will have far-reaching consequences for Ukraine, the European Union, Africa, and possibly many other parts of the world.
Poland's electoral inquisition
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Jun 03,2023
WARSAW — Poland’s ruling party, Law and Justice (PiS), has now taken another step toward full-scale autocracy.
The Polish missile crisis
By Sławomir Sierakowski - May 20,2023
WARSAW — On December 16, 2022, a Russian KH-55 missile flew halfway across Poland before landing 12 kilometres outside Bydgoszcz, a city of over 300,000 people that is host to five NATO units and the Joint Forces Training Centre.
Biden's breakthrough in Poland
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Mar 01,2023
WARSAW — Some Poles felt slighted when they learned that US President Joe Biden had stopped in Kyiv before making his appearance in Warsaw, suspecting that his planned trip to Poland was just a cover for his surprise visit to Ukraine. Such feelings are uncalled for.
Poland's legal mess
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Feb 20,2023
WARSAW — Next door to Ukraine, where people are being killed every day for wanting to join the European Union, Polish leaders are waging what they have called a war on two fronts, against both Russia and the EU.
Resentment on the western front
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Dec 04,2022
WARSAW  —  Poland is home to about 2.7 million refugees from Ukraine: 1.2 million arrived after 2014, and a further 1.5 million arrived following Russia’s invasion on February 24.
The rocket attack that wasn’t
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Nov 19,2022
WARSAW — The rocket strike that killed two Poles near their country’s border with Ukraine on November 15 proved to be a test not so much of defence policy as of the information policy of Poland, Ukraine and NATO. Only the Americans passed.
Why is Ukraine rejecting its natural allies?
By Sławomir Sierakowski - Oct 20,2022
WARSAW  —  Immediately after World War II, the Paris-exiled Polish intellectual Jerzy Giedroyc (of Lithuanian origins, born in Minsk) coined a phrase that would come to define Poland’s foreign policy toward its eastern neighbours: “There will be no independent Poland wi

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