Krzysztof Kokoszczy?ski

Turkish Ambassador: EU accession is our strategic choice

Turkey upholds “European values” much better than some EU countries, the Turkish Ambassador to Poland, Yusuf Ziya Özcan, told EURACTIV Poland.

Knaus: ‘Fences do not work’

The European Union cannot control the refugee influx without the cooperation of Turkey, Gerald Knaus, the President of European Stability Initiative think tank, told EURACTIV Poland.

Luxembourg diplomat: ‘I hope solidarity still has a place in Europe’

In an exclusive interview with Krzysztof Kokoszczy?ski, Georges Faber, Ambassador of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg to Poland, Latvia and Lithuania, spoke to EURACTIV Poland about Luxembourg's plans for the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Greens/EFA president: ‘The only way to reduce our energy dependency is to cut consumption’

Rebecca Harms, the president of The Greens/EFA group in the European Parliament, has criticised the Energy Union project as outdated. In an interview with EURACTIV Poland, she talks about alternatives for the project and their impact on Russia as well as climate change.

Italian ambassador: ‘Illegal immigration poses security threat to Europe’

Many immigrants reaching Italy’s shores cannot or do not want to be identified, posing a security threat to the whole of Europe in terms of terrorism and criminal infiltration, says Alessandro de Pedys, the Italian Ambassador to Poland.

Sweden’s Ambassador to Poland: ‘On climate, I hope our children won’t blame us for inaction’

There is still hope for meaningful decisions to be made at the 2015 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Paris, Swedish Ambassador Staffan Herrström told EURACTIV Poland in an exclusive interview.

Sikorski: If Poland is a hawk, Russia is what?

EXCLUSIVE -  If Europe’s reaction to Crimea annexation had been more vigorous, as Poland advocated, and if the EU had adopted more immediate sanctions at the time, the current war in Donetsk would not have happened, Polish Foreign Minister Rados?aw Sikorski told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.

Sikorski: If Poland is hawkish on Ukraine, is Russia a dove?

SPECIAL REPORT: If the EU had reacted more strongly to Russia's annexation of Crimea and adopted sanction more quickly, as Poland advocated, the currrent conflict in Donetsk, Ukraine, would not have happened, Polish Foreign Minister Rados?aw Sikorski told EURACTIV in an exclusive interview.