Policy shifts to expect ahead of FM Sikorski’s speech tomorrow: expert outlines
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24.04.2024, 19:47
Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski is poised to unveil Poland’s fresh and new approach to international relations during his address to the country’s parliament tomorrow. What major diplomatic shifts can we anticipate? To gain insight, TVP World invited Professor Katarzyna Pisarska, Co-Founder of the Pulaski Foundation.
Pisarska suggested that the foreign minister's speech tomorrow is expected to be comprehensive, addressing not only European matters but also global issues.
However, she emphasized that she anticipates Sikorski’s speech to differ significantly from previous addresses, given the current geopolitical landscape in Europe, which is being likened to a pre-war era, as mentioned by the Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk a few weeks ago.
This situation in Europe, Pisarska said “has profound consequences on how we think about foreign policy and how we prepare for the future.”
“I think now after two years of war [in Ukraine- TVP World], we do understand here in Poland that it has a potential of a spillover that is going to affect the Baltic states, Poland, Western Europe, and the Transatlantic alliance as a whole. So I think the speech will be around this main theme that Europe is potentially in a pre-war era and the question how we prepare for this… is going to be the key message of Minister Sikorski,” she added.
She said she would personally want Sikorski to advocate for the enlargement of NATO and Ukraine’s accession to the EU.
“What I would want to see ... is a very strong commitment by Poland to future enlargement of NATO…. and EU accession of Ukraine.”
She also said that Sikorski might touch on the subject as to how Poland would advocate for Ukraine’s EU membership once it assumes the Presidency of the EU Council in January, 2025.
