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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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).…
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. …
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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...…
When President Obama went public with his support for expansion of the U.S. Visa Waiver Program (VWP) while in Poland...…
President Obama’s trip to Poland last week offered a glimmer of hope regarding Poland’s potential membership in the Visa...…
When President Ronald Reagan stood before the Brandenburg Gate in West Germany and famously demanded that Soviet leader...…
History is not a strong point of this Administration. Last month it was President Obama declaring another "sputnik...…
Speaking to the media this weekend, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton told CBS’s Bob Schieffer that at NATO’s Lisbon...…
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw (Radek) Sikorski was probably being polite when he described, in a conference call on...…
This past weekend, Civic Platform’s (PO) Bronislaw Komorowski narrowly beat Law and Justice’s Jaroslaw Kaczynski in the...…
Last week I wrote a piece urging President Obama to attend the funeral of Polish President Lech Kaczynski, the Polish...…
The President of The Heritage Foundation, Dr. Edwin J. Feulner, today passed along his heartfelt condolences to the...…