Jakub Wiśniewski and Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef have become new Deputy Ministers of Foreign Affairs, the Ministry of Diplomacy announced. The nominations were presented to them today by the Head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Radosław Sikorski. In 2007, Radwan-Röhrenschef was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Polish Foundation. Robert Schuman, replacing Róża Thun in this position, and Jakub Wiśniewski were an employee of “Tygodnik Powszechny”.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the nominations on social media.
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Jakub Wiśniewski is a political scientist and diplomat.
In the years 2003-2010 he worked at the Office of the Commission for European Integration. In January 2010, he moved to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where he became director of the Foreign Policy Strategy Department in September 2010. In 2011, he edited and co-authored “Priorities of Polish Foreign Policy 2012–2016”. From September 13, 2014 to July 31, 2016, he was the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Poland to the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). He subsequently became vice president of Globsec.
Wiśniewski served on the scientific and program boards of PISM, the Western Institute, the Center for Eastern Studies (2010–2015) and the Institute of Central and Eastern Europe. In the years 2010–2013 he was a member of the Polish-Czech Forum.
He speaks French and English.
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Anna Radwan-Röhrenschef is a sociologist, Europeanist and social activist.
In the years 2007-2015 she was chairman of the board of directors of the Polish Foundation. Robert Schuman. She has been associated with this foundation since 2001 – initially as a volunteer and co-organizer of the institution’s promotional campaign before the accession referendum in 2003 and the European elections in 2004. In 2007 she was elected chairman of the board of directors of this organization. , replacing Róża in this position Thun.
Radwan-Röhrenschef became director of the Bronisław Komorowski Institute Foundation in 2015; in 2017 she founded the In.Europa Institute, a think tank focusing on European integration and European Union policy. In 2021 it became part of the authorities of the Warsaw Structures of Poland 2050; in the 2023 elections, she ran unsuccessfully for the Sejm of the Third Way list in the Warsaw district.
In May 2014, she received the Knight’s Cross of the Order of Polonia Restituta “for outstanding contributions to building civil society in Poland and achievements in promoting the idea of a common Europe.”
The appointment of Radosław Sikorski shows that the staff of the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs have a strong pro-Brussels flair, which they have trained for years in various EU organizations and associations. This is probably the best guarantee that no one from Poland will take advantage of the Eurocrats in the foreign policy of Tusk’s government.
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Source: wPolityce