Events

 

 

- Should our countries accept refugees from Africa and the Middle East? What about those from Ukraine?

- Who is responsible for the start of Russian-Ukrainian conflict?

- Should the current sanctions against Russia be tightened, softened or maintained?

 

These and other questions related to current international affairs were asked in the opinion polls conducted in Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia by the Institute of Public Affairs. During the conference we will present and discuss the most important and interesting results. The presentation will be followed by a debate of prominent experts from the four countries. It will focus on commenting opinion polls’ results, ways of developing cooperation between Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia in Eastern and security policies, relations with Russian and in the European Union. We would like to discuss also possibilities of improving Polish-Lithuanian relations and recommendations for the new Polish government. In the second part of the conference we will debate whether the Visegrad Group is in crisis and present experts survey comparing opinions of Polish, Czech, Slovak and Hungarian foreign policy experts.

 

14:00 – 14:15 Opening

Jacek Kucharczyk, Institute of Public Affairs

 

14:15 – 15:00 Presentation of results of opinion polls and the report „Baltic Group: Poland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Searching for common interests”

Agnieszka Łada, Institute of Public Affairs

 

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee break

 

15.15 – 16:45 Debate I

The future of Polish-Baltic cooperation

 

Maria Przełomiec, TVP Info (Poland)

Greta Monika Tuckute, Centre for Geopolitical Studies (Lithuania) 

Andis Kudors, Centre for East European Policy Studies (Latvia)

Martin Hurt, International Centre for Defence and Security (Estonia)

 

Moderator: Jacek Kucharczyk, Institute of Public Affairs

 

16:45 – 17:00 Coffee break

 

17.00 – 18:00 Debate II

Is Visegrad cooperation in crisis?

 

Presentation of research project “Trends of Visegrad Foreign Policy”

Vit Dostal, Association for International Affairs (Czech Republic)

 

Commentary:

Eugenius Smolar, independent expert

Agnieszka Łada , Institute of Public Affairs

 

 

 

 

 

The debate will be held in English and Polish. Simultaneous translation provided


The project is co-financed by the PZU Foundation