“Compromise (a temporary license) does not eliminate the problem of the future of the independent TVN television network” – writes Eugeniusz Smolar, analyst at the Centre for International Relations
The Polish government’s attempt to force the American company Discovery to sell the popular TV station TVN and the TVN24 news channel shocked many in the country and beyond. This move goes against the policy of all of Poland’s governments since 1989 to pursue the closest possible transatlantic relations and...
“The European Commission exists to obey the functioning of European law in its territory on behalf of all Member States ” – said dr. Bonikowska, CIR’s president [07.09.2021]
Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska in” Fakty po Faktach: The European Commission has asked the Court of Justice of the European Union to impose financial penalties on Poland regarding the system of disciplining judges. Poland may be punished because it is the next stage of the infringement procedure. These obligations consist, inter...
Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska commented on Joe Biden’s European visit for the PolandIn channel [10.06.2021]
Dr. Bonikowska commented on US President Joe Biden’s visit to Europe, the upcoming G7 summit, his meeting with UK and Russian leaders and the significance of this being his first big trip abroad. Joe Biden wants the European partnership to be much stronger, of course in context of China and...
Dr. Bonikowska speaking at the “Snow Meeting” organised by the Lithuanian Ministry of Foreign Affairs [17.05.2021]
Małgorzata Bonikowska, the president of Centre for International Relations, was featured as a speaker at the annual event “Snow Meeting”, hosted by the Ministry of Foregin Affairs of Lithuania. The debate was titled “Resilience of Euro-Atlantic area to the changing geopolitical reality”.
Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, CSM expert, on Poland’s role in EU budget negotiations for Euronews [13.07]
Relations between Poland and the European Union will remain strained over issues such as the rule of law, climate change and the post-covid situation – said Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, CSM expert, in an interview with Euronews. The whole interview is available HERE.
“Given the circumstances, the whole election process should be stopped. We, the citizens, are concentrated on something else.” – Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska for CBSNews.com [16.04.2020]
Given the circumstances, the whole election process should be stopped. We, the citizens, are concentrated on something else. The logical consequence would be to postpone the elections — not because it’s not possible to vote, but because we need a proper presentation of the other candidates, if this is a...
“EU summit in Brussels is a chance for the EU to reset itself by agreeing a joint strategy to fight the pandemic and the economic crisis” – dr Małgorzata Bonikowska, president of CSM [25.07]
The response to the Coronavirus by the EU is unprecedented because for the first time in its history the community is raising money on the international markets together and will have to pay for that together too – Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska, president of CSM, about the EU summit for the...
“So many politicians compare the European Union to the Soviet Union that something must be to it, doesn’t it? Will the EU collapse like the USSR?” – wrote Piotr Maciej Kaczyński, CIR expert, for Euroactiv [08.02.2021]
So many politicians compare the European Union to the Soviet Union that something must be to it, doesn’t it? Only in recent months the Polish prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki and his boss, the Law and Justice leader Jarosław Kaczyński, the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and the ex-finance minister of...