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60 Years of Diplomatic Relations Between Poland and the People’S Republic of China Historical Review
POLISH POLITICAL SCIENCE VOL XL 2011 PL ISSN 0208-7375 60 YEARS OF DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS BETWEEN POLAND AND THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA HISTORICAL REVIEW by Marceli Burdelski ! e diplomatic relations between Poland and China had been estab- lished before World War II. ! e new stage in the relations has started on October 7, 1949, when Poland o" cially recognized the People’s Republic of China (PRC), which was declared on October 1, 1949. 1 ! erefore, in 2009, we had two anniversaries: the 60 th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of china and the 60 th anniversary of establishing the diplomatic relations between Poland and PRC. ! is gives the opportunity to summarize mutual relations. ! ose 60 years have been # lled with positive stories, which had signi# cant in$ uence on the development of bilateral relations. However, one can also # nd di" cult, even tragic moments during the history of these two nations. ! ose uneasy moments had also direct impact on mutual relations. 1 J. Rowiński, Wahadło, czyli stosunki polityczne PRL–ChRL , [in:] Polska–Chiny Wczo raj, dziś, jutro , ed. B. Góralczyk, Toruń 2009, p. 19. 212 MARCELI BURDELSKI 1. THE INTERWAR PERIOD 1918 1939 AND THE POSTWAR ERA AFTER 1945 When Poland restored its independence in 1918, China was immersed in post-revolution chaos. A! er the Revolution of 1911, which overthrown the Qing dynasty, the attempts to implement multi-parties, parliamentary democracy based on the western model have failed completely. As a result the informal dissolution of the state – that transformed into smaller and greater quasi-state entities controlled by local warlords, sometimes waging wars against each other – took place. -
General Performance of the Polish Presidency
117 GENERAL PERFORMANCE OF THE POLISH PRESIDENCY Piotr Maciej Kaczyński* The Treaty of Lisbon has made the rotating Council Presidency politically irrelevant. Before December 2009, national leaders controlled the activities of the Council, and the relationship between the Council and the Parliament favoured the Council much more than after December 2009. On the one hand, under the new rules the Council has lost political weight and is now balanced in almost all its activities by the European Parliament. The European Council, on the other hand, has largely taken political clout over from the Council Presidency, as it now has its own permanent president, and there is no special role left for the rotating Presidency. On top of these things, not only have the Council powers regarding other institutions been limited, but also within the Council the rotating Presidency has been limited by the permanent chair of the Foreign Affairs Council and many of the subsidiary working parties and committees. Because of all these limitations, the rotating Presidency is no longer a Union Presidency. If this concept was not yet fully visible before the Polish Presidency of the Council of the European Union in the second semester of 2011, then the Polish experience was very telling. Poland is a larger EU member state; it was committed to the preparations for the Presidency for a number of years and had a dedicated political and administrative leadership. The Polish officials executed the Presidency effectively although they were doing it for the first time. And still, they fell short with political weight. Their leverage over the European Council was similar to every other country’s leverage over the European Council. -
The 2015 Elections to the Senate of the Republic of Poland
Polish Political Science Yearbook vol. 45 (2016), pp. 205–218 DOI: 10.15804/ppsy2016016 PL ISSN 0208-7375 Krystyna Leszczyńska Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin (Poland) The 2015 Elections to the Senate of the Republic of Poland Abstract: The discussion about justification for the very existence of Senate, as it was the case in previous years, also took place prior to the 2015 parliamentary elections. Postulates for the second chamber of parliament to be abolished are the inseparable element of election campaigns in Poland. Announcements of total abolishment or change of: form, competencies or number and the election prin- ciples for members of Senate, although they found their expression in the 2015 election programs of some of the political parties, but they were never applied after elections. The single member Senate constituencies secured seats almost ex- clusively for candidates supported by one of the two strongest political parties, that is the Law and Justice (PiS) and the Civic Platform (PO). Even if in the result of 25 October 2015 elections four independent candidates were elected for senators, three of them used support of political parties, using a rule well proven four years earlier: there is not senator without a political party protector. The 40% support for PiS which turned into 61% of seats indicates that the election system for Senate leads to overrepresentation of election winners. Keywords: Senate; election campaign; single member constituencies; deformation of election result; overrepresentation of the winning party Introduction The analysis of the 2015 Senate election campaign aims at verification of two hy- potheses. First of the assumes that the announcements of abolishment or change of Senate’s character are solely an element of pre-election strategy and in those catego- ries we may perceive the votes that negate the justification for its very existence. -
Polacy O Pracy Ministrów I Rekonstrukcji Rządu
Warszawa, listopad 2013 BS/154/2013 POLACY O PRACY MINISTRÓW I REKONSTRUKCJI RZĄDU Znak jakości przyznany CBOS przez Organizację Firm Badania Opinii i Rynku 11 stycznia 2013 roku Fundacja Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej ul. Żurawia 4a, 00-503 Warszawa e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] http://www.cbos.pl (48 22) 629 35 69 W obecnym miesiącu miną dwa lata od zaprzysiężenia drugiego rządu premiera Donalda Tuska. Niemal od początku jego funkcjonowania nie cichną dywagacje na temat ewentualnych zmian personalnych, a od wielu miesięcy w mediach pojawiają się informacje o planach dotyczących poważnej rekonstrukcji. Pewne zmiany zapowiedział sam premier. W październikowym sondażu1 spytaliśmy Polaków o ocenę poszczególnych ministrów i stosunek do ewentualnej rekonstrukcji rządu. OCENA MINISTRÓW Na ranking najlepiej i najgorzej ocenianych ministrów duży wpływ ma stopień rozpoznawalności poszczególnych członków rządu. Mało znani ministrowie2 są rzadko wskazywani zarówno jako dobrzy, jak i źli ministrowie. Najlepiej ocenianym ministrem, dystansującym pozostałych członków rządu, jest minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski (33%). Na drugim miejscu znalazł się minister kultury i dziedzictwa narodowego Bogdan Zdrojewski (17%). Niemal co ósmy Polak uważa, że najlepiej swoje obowiązki pełnią premier Donald Tusk (13%) i wicepremier Janusz Piechociński (12%). Piątym z najlepiej ocenianych ministrów jest minister administracji i cyfryzacji Michał Boni (10%). Stosunkowo niewielu Polaków za najlepszego ministra uznało kierującego resortem -
Notes on the Senate
NOTES ON THE SENATE CHANCELLERY OF THE SENATE 6, WiejsKA STR. | 00-902 WArsaw Essential statistics about tel. 48 22 694 90 34 | fax 48 22 694 93 06 [email protected] www.senat.gov.pl the Senate of the Tenth Term www.facebook.com/SenatRP The Tenth Term Senate elected on 13th October 2019 has 100 members: 48 were candidates of the Law and Justice Election Committee, 43 of the Civic Coalition Election Committee – Civic Platform, Modern Party .Nowoczesna, Polish Initiative, Greens Party; 3 of the Polish People’s Party Election Commit- tee, 2 of the Democratic Left Alliance Election Committee and 4 of their own election committee. The current Senate counts 76 men and 24 women. In the past, the number of women senators ranged from 6 in the First Term to 23 in the Fifth. The average age of senators is 58 (in the past, it ranged from 49 in the Second Term to 56 in the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth). 4 senators are younger than 40 and 6 are older than 70, 2 are older than 80. 97 senators are university graduates (in the past, the education level ranged from 85 university graduates in the Third Term to 96 in the Ninth). 3 senators have secondary education. 21 senators hold scientific degrees and titles. There are 5 university professors and 16 doctors or doctors habilitated (in the past, the number of professors ranged from 8 in the Ninth Term to 26 in the First). 77 senators have experience in territorial self-governmental work (in the past, it ranged from 13 in the Second Term to 75 in the Ninth). -
The Museum with Its Core Exhibition Is an Agent of Transformation in Poland and the World
THE GRAND OPENING The Museum with its Core Exhibition is an agent of transformation in Poland and the world. 1 “We continually repeat that Museum of the History of Polish Jews is a museum of life, not death. Most Jews in Poland and Europe were murdered, but our history remains, and continues. After the war, attempts were made to erase that history. The Museum’s mission is to tell that story anew, to fill the void. This is something we all need because there is no history of Jews without Poland, and no history of Poland without Jews.” - Marian Turski Chairman of the Museum Council, Deputy Chairman of the Board, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland 2 “Twenty-one years, hundreds of people, dozens of projects, many moments of joy, but also doubt. Today we can say that the most difficult, the most turbulent phase of the creation of the Museum is behind us. Before us is the next step, when the institution starts to live its own life; the work is released from its creator and takes on as many meanings as there are audiences. It remains for me to hope that the Museum will surpass all the expectations that our founders imagined.” - Piotr Wiślicki Chairman of the Board, Association of the Jewish Historical Institute of Poland 3 “The creation of the Museum is part of a wider and extraordinary process of restoring the memory of Polish Jews. This process involves hundreds if not thousands of initiatives in the fields of science, culture, heritage, and commemoration. All these initiatives express the conviction that is the basis for this Museum: that the history of Polish Jews is an inseparable and magnificent part of Poland’s history.” - Prof. -
L.Dz. 39/02/2011 Bogdan Zdrojewski Minister Kultury I Dziedzictwa Narodowego Szanowny Panie Ministrze W Załączeniu Przekazuję
l.dz. 39/02/2011 Bogdan Zdrojewski Minister Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego Szanowny Panie Ministrze W załączeniu przekazuję stanowisko Zarządu Głównego Stowarzyszenia Bibliotekarzy Polskich w sprawie projektu nowelizacji ustawy o organizowaniu i prowadzeniu działalności kulturalnej i niektórych innych ustaw. Równocześnie pragnę przypomnieć, że Zarząd Główny SBP powołał zespół, który pracuje nad projektem nowej ustawy o bibliotekach. W skład zespołu weszli przedstawiciele bibliotek publicznych, naukowych i pedagogicznych, konsultantami są ponadto specjaliści bibliotekarstwa – praktycy ze wszystkich rodzajów bibliotek, pracownicy naukowi z zakresu bibliotekarstwa i informacji naukowej oraz prawnicy. Wyniki prac zespołu zostaną przekazane Panu Ministrowi. Nowelizowana ustawa o organizowaniu i prowadzeniu działalności kulturalnej będzie miała wpływ na znaczenie przygotowywanej przez nas ustawy o bibliotekach. Z tego względu środowisko bibliotekarskie oczekuje, że zgłoszone uwagi do projektu zostaną uwzględnione w dalszych pracach. Elżbieta Stefańczyk Otrzymują: 1. Bronisław Komorowski – Prezydent RP 2. Grzegorz Schetyna – Marszałek Sejmu 3. Bogdan Borusewicz - Marszałek Senatu 4. Donald Tusk – Premier RP 5. Tomasz Tomczykiewicz- Przewodniczący KP Platforma Obywatelska 6. Mariusz Błaszczyk – Przewodniczący KP Prawo i Sprawiedliwość 7. Grzegorz Napieralski – Przewodniczący KP Sojusz Lewicy Demokratycznej 8. Stanisław Żelichowski – Przewodniczący KP Polskie Stronnictwo Ludowe 9. Joanna Kluzik-Rostkowska – Przewodnicząca KP Polska jest Najważniejsza -
Zaufanie Do Polityków W Czerwcu
Warszawa, czerwiec 2011 BS/77/2011 ZAUFANIE DO POLITYKÓW W CZERWCU Znak jakości przyznany CBOS przez Organizację Firm Badania Opinii i Rynku 13 stycznia 2011 roku Fundacja Centrum Badania Opinii Społecznej ul. Żurawia 4a, 00-503 Warszawa e-mail: [email protected]; [email protected] http://www.cbos.pl (48 22) 629 35 69 Największym zaufaniem Polaków niezmiennie cieszy się prezydent Bronisław Komorowski1. Tak jak przed miesiącem ufa mu prawie dwie trzecie ankietowanych (64%). Pod względem rozmiarów społecznego zaufania prezydent nadal dystansuje wszystkich pozostałych uwzględnionych w badaniu przedstawicieli sceny politycznej. Drugie miejsce wśród najczęściej obdarzanych zaufaniem polityków zajmują ex aequo: premier Donald Tusk, minister spraw zagranicznych Radosław Sikorski oraz szef SLD Grzegorz Napieralski. Tym trzem politykom ufa po 47% ankietowanych. Trochę mniej osób (43%) ma zaufanie do Ryszarda Kalisza, mającego startować w jesiennych wyborach z pierwszego miejsca listy SLD w Warszawie. Zaufaniem dwóch piątych badanych cieszą się wicepremier i szef resortu gospodarki Waldemar Pawlak oraz minister zdrowia Ewa Kopacz (po 41%). Około jednej trzeciej respondentów ma zaufanie do Marka Borowskiego, a także do prezydenckiego doradcy Tomasza Nałęcza (po 34%) oraz marszałka Sejmu Grzegorza Schetyny (32%). Nieco rzadziej z zaufaniem ankietowanych spotykają się prezes PiS Jarosław Kaczyński (29%), szef MSWiA Jerzy Miller (28%) i minister obrony Bogdan Klich (27%). Co czwarty badany (25%) deklaruje zaufanie do byłej już szefowej PJN Joanny Kluzik-Rostkowskiej, która w nadchodzących wyborach wystartuje do Sejmu z listy PO. Niewiele mniej osób ufa marszałkowi Senatu Bogdanowi Borusewiczowi (23%) oraz szefowi doradców premiera Michałowi Boniemu (22%). Kolejne miejsca w czerwcowym rankingu zaufania zajmują: minister kultury Bogdan Zdrojewski (20%), Bartosz Arłukowicz mający startować z listy PO w Szczecinie (19%), rzecznik rządu Paweł Graś (18%) oraz minister finansów Jacek Rostowski (16%) i szefowa resortu pracy Jolanta Fedak (12%). -
CSESIII Parties and Leaders Original CSES Text Plus CCNER Additions
CSESIII Parties and Leaders Original CSES text plus CCNER additions (highlighted) =========================================================================== ))) APPENDIX I: PARTIES AND LEADERS =========================================================================== | NOTES: PARTIES AND LEADERS | | This appendix identifies parties active during a polity's | election and (where available) their leaders. | | The party labels are provided for the codes used in the | micro data variables. Parties A through F are the six | most popular parties, listed in descending order according | to their share of the popular vote in the "lowest" level | election held (i.e., wherever possible, the first segment | of the lower house). | | Leaders A through F are the corresponding party leaders or | presidential candidates referred to in the micro data items. | This appendix reports these names and party affiliations. | | Parties G, H, and I are supplemental parties and leaders | voluntarily provided by some election studies. However, | these are in no particular order. | | If parties are members of electoral blocs, the name of | the bloc is given in parentheses following the appropriate | party labels. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> PARTIES AND LEADERS: AUSTRALIA (2007) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 01. PARTY B Liberal Party John Howard 0101 Peter Costello 02. PARTY A Australian Labor Party Kevin Rudd 0201 Julia Gillard 03. PARTY C National Party Mark Vaile 0301 -
The Dynamics of Polish Patriotism After 1989: Concepts, Debates, Identities
The dynamics of Polish patriotism after 1989: concepts, debates, identities by Dorota Szeligowska submitted to Central European University Doctoral School of Political Science, Public Policy and International Relations In partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Supervisors: Prof. Lea Sgier Prof. Balázs Trencsényi CEU eTD Collection Budapest, Hungary 2014 Declaration I hereby declare that this thesis contains no materials accepted for any other degrees, in any other institutions. The thesis contains no materials previously written and/or published by any other person, except where appropriate acknowledgement is made in the form of bibliographical reference. Dorota Szeligowska 30 June 2014 CEU eTD Collection ii Abstract During rapid social changes, such as democratic transition, both intellectual and political elites discuss the essence of key political concepts. After 1989, in Poland, during such intellectual debates academics, editorialists and politicians have discussed extensively the legacy of the communist regime, and the nature of the new democratic regime, and have redefined important concepts. Particularly, discussions over the concept of patriotism or its re-definition have occurred with astonishing frequency since 25 years. Already in 1990, the renowned historian of ideas Andrzej Walicki suggested that “a new kind of Polish patriotism must be developed: a patriotism free from the archaic features of the democratic legacy of Old Poland, critical of Romantic illusions, but no less critical of [Roman] Dmowski’s version of political realism.” This statement built on the idea of civic patriotism, proposed by a dissident left-wing intellectual Jan Józef Lipski, in his significant essay “Dwie ojczyzny, dwa patriotyzmy (Two fatherlands, two patriotisms),” published in 1981. -
Poland's EU-Council Presidency Under Evaluation
See discussions, stats, and author profiles for this publication at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258296641 Poland’s EU-Council Presidency under Evaluation: Navigating Europe through Stormy Waters Book · December 2013 CITATIONS 2 1 author: Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski University of Wroclaw 78 PUBLICATIONS 156 CITATIONS SEE PROFILE Some of the authors of this publication are also working on these related projects: Renationalising the Integration Process in the Internal Market of the European Union - financed by the National Science Centre of Poland. View project Democratic backsliding in Europe View project All content following this page was uploaded by Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski on 23 January 2014. The user has requested enhancement of the downloaded file. Ireneusz Pawel Karolewski | Thomas Mehlhausen Monika Sus [eds.] Poland’s EU-Council Presidency under Evaluation Navigating Europe through Stormy Waters BUT_Karolewski_0305-0.indd 3 28.08.13 09:32 Table of Contents Lists of Abbreviations 7 Chapter 1: Introduction How to analyse the rotating EU Council Presidency after the Lisbon Treaty? 9 Thomas Mehlhausen and Ireneusz Paweł Karolewski Chapter 2: Coping with multiple challenges Overview of the general performance of the Polish Council Presidency 27 Piotr Maciej Kaczyński Chapter 3: Playing the service provider, gaining in trust Institutional aspects of the Polish Council Presidency 43 Anne Lauenroth and Nicolai von Ondarza Chapter 4: Ambitious realism The Eastern Partnership as a top priority of the Polish EU Presidency 67 Irene -
Politician of the Year in Poland and Abroad Post-Electoral Expectations from New Sejm and Government December 2011
DECEMBER 2011 ISSN 2083-1714 POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR CONTENTS: IN POLAND AND ABROAD R POLITICIAN The title of the politician of the year has been awarded by our respondents to the OF THE YEAR IN POLAND Prime Minister, Donald Tusk, and president Bronisław Komorowski (11% each). These two AND ABROAD politicians received markedly better ratings than any competitor. Next in line is Jarosław Kaczyński, the leader of PiS (Law and WHICH POLISH POLITICIAN DESERVES THE TITLE Justice), who was mentioned by 5% of OF THE POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR 2011? R POST-ELECTORAL respondents. He is followd by Radosław EXPECTATIONS Sikorski, the Foreign Minister (4%), and by Donald Tusk 11% Bronisł aw Komorowski 11% FROM NEW SEJM Janusz Palikot (3%), the leader and AND GOVERNMENT Jarosłń aw Kaczy ski 5% mastermind of the success of the party Radosł aw Sikorski 4% which unexpectedly was third in the Sejm Janusz Palikot 3% elections. Zbigniew Ziobro 2% R CROSSES Over half of respondents (52%) did Jerzy Buzek 1% IN THE PUBLIC SPACE not mention any politician. Among them, Waldemar Pawlak 1% some answered that they cannot mention Bogdan Zdrojewski 1% any politician because no name comes to Ryszard Kalisz 1% R THIRTIETH mind (27%), while others (25%) think that Ewa Kopacz 1% ANNIVERSARY no politician deserves this title. Janusz Korwin-Mikke 1% OF THE MARTIAL LAW The choice of a politician from the Grzegorz Napieralski 1% international political scene was even more Another name 5% difficult.Almost half of respondents (49%) No-one deserves this title 25% Don't know 27% had a problem mentioning someone, and PUBLIC OPINION about one in seven (14%) believe RESEARCH CENTER WHICH OF THE INTERNATIONAL POLITICIANS DESERVES that none of the known - CBOS - THE TITLE OF THE POLITICIAN OF THE YEAR 2011? international politicians deserves Angela Merkel 19% this title.