SECURITY.

An interview with Paweł Kowal, a former deputy minister of foreign affairs and a member of the European Parliament, currently an employee of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences on the future policy of the European Union in the face of the crisis of integration and the dispute over Nord […]

The recent NATO summit in Brussels once again confirmed the validity of the declaration of Georgia’s imminent membership within the structures of the Alliance that had been submitted in Bucharest in 2008. Nonetheless, it has not been specified when such an event would possibly take place. The further cooperation shall be based on the previously […]

It is expected that Western restrictions, imposed on Russia by the United States and the European Union after the annexation of Crimea, will become troublesome for the state’s economy only in a few years. The Russians are currently managing all resources they have at their disposals; in addition, they have been also maximally exploiting the […]

During the Brussels summit, NATO expressed its readiness to develop cooperation with Ukraine, but this will be dependent on domestic reforms in that country. At present, progress in this respect is not sufficient to allow Ukraine to deepen its relations with the Alliance. The Ukrainian authorities should continue introducing changes in the security and defence […]

The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev, the son of the Secretary of the Security Council of Russia, to a ministerial post is a symbol of the ongoing shift of power to a younger generation of Russian leaders. A growing group of so-called “Kremlin Kids” hold significant, even though not visible, positions in the power structures, enabling […]

A news release from the North Atlantic Alliance summit in Brussels from 11-12 July included a record on energy security. One can also find allusion to Nord Stream 2.

The NATO-Russia Founding Act adopted in 1997 reflected the consensus within the Alliance that new security architecture in Europe should be based on three pillars: enlargement of transformed NATO, European integration and partnership with Russia. Self-limitation on the stationing and deployment of troops in the territories of new NATO members was conditioned upon Russia’s observance of the […]

On 12 June, Norway’s ministers of defence and foreign affairs announced that the Norwegian government and parliament had granted approval for the rotational stationing of the US Marines to continue in Norway for the next five years and for an increase of the US contingent from 330 to 700 soldiers. Soldiers from the US Marine […]

The Three Seas initiative of regional cooperation is getting a new, local and cross-border dimension, Polish President Andrzej Duda said at the Regions of the Three Seas Forum in Jasionka near the south-eastern Polish city of Rzeszów on Tuesday.

– Nord Stream 2 is a highly political project, aimed to bypass Poland, Ukraine and the Baltic States, but Denmark will eventually give its permission to build it because we don’t have the necessary backup from the US and the EU – said Jens Høvsgaard, an author of a book „Spies who came in with […]