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This Discussion Paper takes a closer look at the current challenges of the European foreign policy vis-à-vis Russia and sketches a vision for a new generation of Ostpolitik, aiming at organizing European unity as well as strengthening the EU’s strategic alliances in Eastern Europe and across the Atlantic.
“Kniefall von Warschau” was a symbolic and historic gesture that occurred during Chancellor Willy Brandt’s visit to Poland in December 1970. At a monument to the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, Chancellor Brandt unexpectedly knelt. The trip and that moment was one of the stepping stones towards a new Ostpolitik, aiming at improving relations with the Eastern Bloc while consolidating the West. It significantly contributed to easing geopolitical tensions and has become a blueprint for a paradigm of “change through rapprochement” in foreign policy.
50 years later, we again find ourselves in a turbulent situation. We face the ongoing escalation between the West and Russia. The EU has been struggling with a political crisis, best manifested by the unclear direction of further integration (Brexit) or disputes on shared values (Poland, Hungary). We also seem to lack a smart strategy for an Eastern Partnership, once a flagship foreign policy initiative of the EU. Last but not least, the transatlantic bond weakened by the last four years of the Trump administration demands immediate attention.
With a change of leadership in the US, there is a glimmer of hope that things will change. Inspired by this important anniversary, we want to seek a progressive answer to the challenges we face. What is left of Willy Brandt’s daring and dialogue-based foreign policy today? Do we need a new progressive Ostpolitik?
Please join us for a conversation with:
Aleksander Kwaśniewski, the former President of Poland,
Kati Piri, MEP and Vice-Chair, S&D Group/Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs,
Max Bergmann, Senior Fellow/Director of the Moscow Project, Center for American Progress,
Liana Fix, Head of International Politics, Körber-Stiftung,
with an introduction by László Andor, Secretary-General,
Foundation for European Progressive Studies,
on 8 December 2020 at 3:00 pm CET // 9:00 am ET.
The event will take place online. Registration for this event is closed, for late registration please contact events@progressives-zentrum.org
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This event is organized with the financial support of the European Parliament. The views presented in this debate do not represent those of the European Parliament but only of the respective speakers.
Am 10. Mai sollten in Polen die Präsidentschaftswahlen abgehalten werden. Die regierende PiS-Partei war entschlossen, die Abstimmung trotz des Ausbruchs der COVID-19-Pandemie durchzuführen. In letzter Minute sah sie sich jedoch gezwungen, die Wahl abzusagen, da der politische Druck zu groß geworden war. Der Zustand der Demokratie und Rechtsstaatlichkeit in dem Land wird bereits seit einiger Zeit kritisiert. Im Interview erklärt Maria Skóra, Leiterin des Programmbereichs Internationaler Dialog des Progressiven Zentrums, wie die Regierung die aktuelle Gesundheitskrise zu ihrem Vorteil nutzt – und wie dies die Demokratie untergräbt.
A Comparative Outlook at the European Election Campaigns in France, Germany and Poland Discussion Paper on the European Elections 2019
Maria Skóra and Sophie Pornschlegel take a closer look at the European Election Campaigns 2019 in France, Germany and Poland and analyse whether they favoured the emergence of a Europeanised public sphere.
In summarizing the results of last year’s parliamentary elections in Poland I briefly mentioned that “the rule of Catholic conservatives might stand in opposition to respecting the rights of women “. It took less than a year for this prophecy to come true. Thousands of women in Poland are joining Black Protests to demonstrate against the newest radical anti-abortion law proposal.
