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Karnowski, Michał
2 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Defence shield an opportunity for Poland
The liberal-conservative daily Dziennik supports the treaty for the construction of the US missile defence shield in Poland and calls on Warsaw to increase its own military defence budget. "If you ... look at the history of our country since 1989, yesterday's treaty is a further success in the process of bolstering Western structures. ... However this is not to say that the great and at times fierce debate that took place in Poland on this issue was unnecessary. ... If we do not invest billions of dollars in equipping the Polish army then no ally will do it for us. ... So we should see the defence shield above all as an opportunity and a challenge. If we add our own missiles to the battery of American Patriot [missiles] to create a non-virtual defence system, all the effort will have been worthwhile. ... If we just sit back in the belief that we have done our bit now that we have 'a major alliance', the American installations on Polish soil will remain primarily an American success."
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A positive assessment of Poland's foreign policy
Michał Karnowski praises Polish Prime Minister Jarosław Kaczyński's government for being more self-confident in the area of foreign policy than its predecessors. "I agree with the diagnosis that Poland has attained European levels of prosperity and development and has completed the phase of integration into EU institutions. This has changed the rules of Poland's foreign policy. The behaviour of a post-communist EU candidate country differs from that of an EU member state that is on an equal footing with other EU member states. The rather harsh tone of Foreign Minister Anna Fotyga will no doubt soften in the future, but there can be no return to the nodding policy. The category of national interests has returned to the language of Polish diplomacy for good, just as it was never absent from the language of the Germans and the French."
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