President Obama will conclude his eighth visit to Europe this week in Poland, where he will attend a summit of leaders of Central and Eastern Europe including the new President of Kosovo, Atifete Jahjaga. This visit will be particularly significant as the Administration attempts to correct a series of missteps… Read more
Abstract: The nations of “New Europe” have been staunch allies of the United States in the aftermath of 9/11, and have sacrificed resources and soldiers’ lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Again and again, the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) have shown their… Read more
The Smolensk plane crash—which tragically took the lives of Poland’s President, First Lady, and 94 other political, military, and financial leaders—has dealt a devastating blow to the Polish people. As well as President Lech Kaczynski and First Lady Maria Kaczynska, Poland lost several ministers, parliamentarians, the heads of all the… Read more
Sally McNamara, Senior Policy Analyst for European Affairs at The Heritage Foundation, discusses how President-elect Obama can keep his pledge to strengthen American and global security by gaining additional European commitments for the mission in Af … Read more
With at least two ongoing wars, President-elect Barack Obama may well be entering the Oval Office facing the toughest national security landscape for any American president in some time. A tour of the foreign policy horizon shows that America's 44th president will have his hands full with a panoply of problems that would vex… Read more
It is widely reported in the world press that the United States and Poland have agreed on terms for deploying ballistic missile interceptors in the East European country. The interceptors would work in conjunction with radars that will be deployed in the Czech Republic (the result of another agreement announced earlier this year).… Read more
Sally McNamara, a Senior Policy Analyst in European Affairs at the Heritage Foundation, discusses the agreement in principle between the U.S. government and Polish government on plans to install a U.S. missile defense system on Polish territory. … Read more
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Senator Mark Kirk (R–IL) and Congressman Mike Quigley (R–IL) returned from a four-day trip to Poland this week. The...… Read more
When President Obama went public with his support for expansion of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) while in Poland...… Read more
President Obama’s trip to Poland last week offered a glimmer of hope regarding Poland’s potential membership in the Visa...… Read more
When President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany and famously demanded that Soviet leader...… Read more
History is not a strong point of this Administration. Last month it was President Obama declaring another "sputnik...… Read more
Speaking to the media this weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CBS’s Bob Schieffer that at NATO’s Lisbon...… Read more
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski was probably being polite when he described, in a conference call on...… Read more
This past weekend, Civic Platform’s (PO) Bronislaw Komorowski narrowly beat Law and Justice’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski in the...… Read more
Last week I wrote a piece urging President Obama to attend the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish...… Read more
The President of The Heritage Foundation, Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, today passed along his heartfelt condolences to the...… Read more