Donald Tusk has commenced his term as president of the European Council in December 2014. To mark the 4th anniversary of his appointment, gazeta.pl has surveyed analysts to assess Tusk’s performance. WiseEuropa’s Wojciech Białożyt contributed to the survey, below is the English translation of his contribution. The survey is available in full (in Polish)
The Silesian Voivodeship has a chance to become a model for a just transition of a mining region into a modern industrial and commercial region.
Turkey's president Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s state visit to Berlin at the end of September 2018 sparked speculations about a possible thaw in Turkish-German relations which had experienced serious tensions in the last two years.
The relations between the European Union and Turkey which, besides Russia, is the EU’s most important neighbor, should become at least an issue of dialogue between Poland and Germany. The latter will always possess the biggest potential in the EU to engage with Turkey; meanwhile, Warsaw’s relationship with Ankara has deepened substantially in recent years.
The European Union has a democracy problem. The polycrisis that has plagued the EU for years has led to a cacophony of voices calling for fundamental change to the integration project.
What is a landscape of domestic climate finance? How can it be of use for different stakeholders and policy discussions? - these were some of the issues raised during the first workshop organized by WiseEuropa
The high influx of asylum seekers in 2015 plunged the European Union into a crisis. The brunt of refugee reception rested on only a few shoulders.
Most of EU citizens see the migration crisis of 2015 as a one-off event. However, mass migration is a part of human history – and Poland with its massive diasporas in the U.S., Canada or France is a good example.
Contribution of internal market and consumer protection to growth was discussed during the workshop of the European Parliament’s Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection
Not being a lawyer makes it really challenging to evaluate legal intricacies of the recent Polish reforms of the judiciary. Nevertheless, the EU debate concerning Polish reforms has a clear political dimension.
