Poland's regime, transatlantic relations and the EU's approach to China

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Paul Adamson

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4.4 • 7 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2021

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Radek Sikorski, the former Foreign Minister and Defence Minister of Poland, and Chairman of the European Parliament's Delegation for Relations with the United States, talks to Paul Adamson about Poland's regime, transatlantic relations and how the EU should deal with China.

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0:00.0	This is Paul Adamson and welcome to In Conversation, the regular podcast of my online magazine InCompass.
0:11.7	I chat informally with personalities from a wide variety of backgrounds on a wide variety of subjects.
0:17.2	If you like this podcast, you can go to the magazine's website, Encompass-Europe.com,
0:22.8	or any of the main platforms for free access to all the podcasts to date. I hope you enjoy this
0:27.9	conversation.
0:37.4	My guest is Radix Sikorski.
0:39.5	Radik Sikorski is a former Foreign Minister of Poland, a former Defence Minister of Poland,
0:44.1	and is now a member of the European Parliament.
0:46.6	Welcome to the podcast, Radik.
0:48.5	Hello.
0:49.5	Right. Let's get started.
0:51.3	I want to talk to you, first of all, obviously, about Poland.
0:54.8	How would you, to a non-Polish audience, describe the situation in Poland at moment?
1:00.0	What kind of state, what kind of government is in office there?
1:04.0	Well, we have a populist government, which Freedom House, the American NGO, which has for decades ranked countries,
1:13.6	unfortunately described as a half-democracy.
1:19.6	And Poland has been slipping in the various international rankings of freedom of the press
1:26.6	or perception of corruption. the last two elections were
1:31.5	criticized by ODIHR, the arm of the OSCE that supervises elections, on the grounds that the
1:40.2	opposition didn't have equal access to state media and to state resources.
1:45.5	The elections were not stolen, but they were not fully democratic either.
1:49.6	And this government has packed the constitutional tribunal,
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