The interview was conducted in Polish
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Radosław Sikorski is the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland. A graduate of High School No. 1 in Bydgoszcz and Oxford University. He served as a war correspondent in Afghanistan and Angola (1986–1989). In 2002–2005, he was a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and the executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative. Radosław Sikorski was Minister of Defence (2005–2007), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007–2014), and Speaker of the Sejm (2014–2015). In 2019–2023, he was a Member of the European Parliament, sitting on the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Security and Defence Subcommittee. He chaired the Delegation for relations with the United States. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Studies at Harvard. As Poland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, he launched, together with Carl Bildt, the EU’s Eastern Partnership. He proposed and helped to establish the European Endowment for Democracy and the Solidarity Prize. In 2014, he headed the EU mission to Kyiv, which stopped the bloodshed on the Maidan. He was listed among the Top 100 Global Thinkers by the Foreign Policy magazine for “speaking the truth, even when it is not diplomatic”. He is the author of several books, including: Dust of the Saints: a Journey to Herat in Time of War, Full circle. A homecoming to free Poland, The Polish House: an Intimate History of Poland, Communism-freed Zone. An Interview, Poland Can Be Better. Behind the Scenes of Polish Diplomacy, and Poland. The State of the State. Radosław Sikorski is married to the writer and journalist Anne Applebaum. They have two sons. He is interested in history.
Wojciech Przybylski
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Editor-in-Chief of Visegrad Insight and President of the Res Publica Foundation. Europe’s Future Fellow at IWM – Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna and Erste Foundation. Wojciech also co-authored a book ‘Understanding Central Europe’, Routledge 2017.
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