I am happy to report that Gazeta Wyborcza, a leading Polish daily published my text about the Poland’s position in the EU. You can read the text in Polish on GW’s website here or my English translation here.

Here is the up-to-date list of my articles published by Euractiv.com:

1. Tokarczuk’s Nobel is good news for Polish liberals ahead of Sunday’s vote
   11 October 2019
2. Top EU jobs: Is there a ‘cordon sanitaire’ against Central Europeans?
   17 July 2019
3. Groups are ready, EU Parliament is ready to play
   25 June 2019
4. Tusk addresses Poles on Constitution Day
   6 May 2019
5. The Five Star Movement’s attempt to create a European Parliament group
   18 February 2019
6. Fallout from the Kaczynski Twin Towers scandal
   30 January 2019
7. EU elections: Polish opposition prepares for battle
   23 January 2019
8. Poland’s constitutional conundrum…explained
   13 June 2016
9. Kaczynski blames Tusk for Smolensk crash
   11 April 2016
10. Bring women into the College!
    22 August 2014

Europeum Institute for European Policy based in Prague just published my analysis of the European politics post-elections. You can access it here. Here are the main points:

• There are signals of increased political confrontation in the European political arena. The new European Commission has not yet taken office and already has two big political problems awaiting it: how to deal with the democratisation of the Union and how to address the Euroskeptic support for the Commission in the eyes of the pro-European forces.

• I call them “the original sins” of the new Commission, but in fact they may mean that if the Juncker Commission was a political one, the von der Leyen Commission might be the most political commission in the history of the institution.

The first of the original sins is the issue of Spitzenkandidaten process. Criticized as unrealistic and unnecessary before the elections, is now revered among those who care for the European democracy. Some claim the process is dead; I’d argue it will bounce back stronger during the next cycle. The reason being – it is an original sin of the von der Leyen European Commission.

The second original sin comes from the fact that the new Commission President dwells on the support of the Euro-sceptics and Euro-realists and failed to gain meaningful levels of trust of the pro-European majority in the House of the People, as the European Parliament is called. The pro-European President of the Commission needs to prove herself to the pro-European parliamentarians in the months and years to come.