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Author: Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations

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Where is Poland headed?

January 19, 2016January 19, 2016 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

Does Polish national-conservative leader Jarosław Kaczyński have a plan? Or are his policy decisions (which are often rushed through literally

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Poland’s choice: the day after

October 26, 2015May 10, 2024 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

This is an unprecedented moment in the 25 years of Polish democracy. The national-conservative Law and Justice Party won a

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Perspectives 

President Duda: What happened in Poland?

May 25, 2015May 25, 2015 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

Andrzej Duda’s success in Poland’s presidential election is a political earthquake. Not only did Duda, an inexperienced, second-rank politician from

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The price of coexistence between the EU and Russia

May 17, 2015May 10, 2024 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia

If the main flaw of the European security order after 1989 was that it was unsuited to incorporating Russia in

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Can Poland remain a leader of EU foreign policy?

February 5, 2015February 5, 2015 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Poland

In 2014 Poland confirmed its role as one of the European Union’s foreign policy leaders. The Russian-Ukrainian conflict hit Poland’s

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Germany leads Europe: Jettisoning the status quo

February 5, 2015May 10, 2024 Piotr Buras of the European Council on Foreign Relations Russia, Ukraine

Germany is rightly praised in the European Foreign Policy Scorecard 2015 for assuming more leadership in the diplomacy of the

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