Professor Krzysztof Szczerski will discuss the following issues:

• Continuity of the euro-atlantic direction of Polish foreign policy.
• What changes? The formula of conducting foreign policy: stronger articulation of Poland’s national interests.
• Active foreign policy (esp. more sovereignty within the UE)
• Real, not ritual model of diplomacy
• Areas of Poland’s stronger involvement:
• Significant increase in effective defence and deterrence potential of NATO (eastern flank reinforcement – NATO’s enhanced forward presence, activity in facing challenges from the South)
• Transatlantic partnership
• The EU reform while advocating European unity (the union of free nations and equal states, more flexibility, EU global economic competitiveness, addressing the set of European crises)
• Strengthening Poland’s eastern policy (Ukraine crisis)
• Development of regional cooperation (strengthening the V4, building The Intermarium Axis – Adriatic, Baltic, Black Sea countries, Baltic and Nordic cooperation, launching the “Carpathian Strategy”)
• Searching for the global partnerships in trade and investments (esp. the area of innovations and technology).
• Strengthening the relations with Polonia and Poles who live abroad. Active anti-defamation policy. 
• Promoting Polish position in international organizations.
• Promoting the international law as a basis for peace and stability in the international relations