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Centre for International Relations, THINKTANK and Heart on Fire organised an online meeting of our series “Diplomatic coffee”. Our guest was: ➡️ H.E. Mira Sun, Ambassador of Republic of Korea to Poland The meeting was be moderated by Dr. Małgorzata Bonikowska, the CIR and THINKTANK president and Michał Rejent, entrepreneur,...

The coup d’état in Burma put a halt to 10 years of democratic experiment, and the generals resumed their rule. The military has always had a strong position in that country, and in recent decades it has managed to establish its own “economic empire”. The coup was meant to protect...

The pandemic has revealed new dimensions of Euro-Asian relations. Europe has realized how dependent it is on Asian suppliers of medicines and medical equipment, and that it suffers from a lack of EU competence in this area. The most important conclusions are the growing importance of health as a strategic...

We invite politicians from all over Europe to submit their most outstanding political initiatives. A jury of 1,000 citizens will select the winning projects in nine categories. The annual Innovation in Politics Awards recognise creative politicians from across Europe who have the courage to break new ground to find innovative...

The webinar will explore the digital trends and consumer behavioural changes before and after the pandemic, and how entrepreneurs and business can restart and regrow with a new mindset to achieve new result. The discussion will cover the Mainland China and Hong Kong market outlook, how consumer, retail, digital marketing,...

Donald Trump was acquitted by the US Senate of responsibility for January’s riots and the storming of the Capitol by protesters. It was hard to imagine a different outcome since the Republicans – even the anti-Trumpist ones – feared a party split. Trump – the only president in US history...

The project is carried out in cooperation with the Konrad Adenauer Foundation in Poland. This project consists of 10 texts and videos based on 10 live interviews about the situation in Europe and the world. Some of these talks focus on selected Asian countries and relations between Europe and Asia....

An internet publication with the stories of Poles of Jewish origin and of Jews with Polish roots. It presents people involved, those who care. They are aware of their identity, trying to change the world and other people’s lives. They often do so on a microscale, acting locally in their...

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...

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...

The project has the main purpose to turn the spotlight and spread another point of view a great tragedy that is unfolding at the gates of Europe. The purpose of the project is to spread another narration, another idea of Europe, a Europe that not feel fear, an Europe that...

Join Warsaw Security Forum for an online sessions which will take place take place on the 17th and 18th of November 2020! The Warsaw Security Forum (WSF) is a leading European platform devoted to transatlantic cooperation and focused on elaborating shared responses to common security challenges. The WSF annual conference convenes...

Take part in amazing meetings with people from all over the world, participate in the discussions about the most important challenges the Western societies must face in the 21st century. Among the invited guests you will meet Timothy Garton Ash, Helena Dalli, Norman Davies, Johan Norberg, Sabina Baral and many...

The establishment of diplomatic relations between Israel, The United Arab Emirates and Bahrain has taken the world by surprise. But it shouldn’t. After all, economic and intelligence relations between the countries have been developing for at least a good few years. How is it possible that Israel – so far...

The crisis of multilateralism was present in the world system long before the US President Donald Trump took office, and before the advent of the pandemic. It has deep structural roots, and it coincides with the changing division of power in the industrialized world. But now, paradoxicaly, we need multilateralism...

Poland issues the largest number of work permits among the EU countries, with the population of economic immigrants estimated at 1 million. At the same time, Poles are one of the European societies most afraid of foreigners. The participants of an online debate organised on 2 July 2020 by the...

Beauty & Tech: A Romance in Greater China Join the Webinar to get first hand insights about the Hong Kong & Greater China Beauty market and opportunities for European brands in Asia. Agenda, 10:00 am – 11:30 am The Beauty Sector in Greater China: Hong Kong Launchpad & E-Commerce InvestHK Offices...

Influence of foreign, authoritarian regimes is increasingly a hot topic in EU. V4 is no different from the rest of the EU in this regard. However, most of the attention was so far focused on Russia. With few exceptions, China and its influence has been so far largely ignored in...

The Centre for International Relations and the European Parliament Office in Poland organised the Europe and World debate between 2020 and 2030. The main challenges and scenarios for Poland and the European Union in the context of changes in the global economy. The meeting, which took place on March 10,...

Our publications zobacz więcej “Soft-cuddly power: China’s new face of panda diplomacy” – Dr Bruno Surdel, senior analyst at CIR, on TVP World’s show How We Got Here. CALENDAR RELATIONSHIPS “Soft-cuddly power: China’s new face of panda diplomacy” – Dr Bruno Surdel, senior analyst at CIR, on TVP World’s show...