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The election of Donald Trump has added to the “deep trouble” that Europe is in, but the new US president might change when he learns how the world works, according to former Polish foreign minister Radoslaw Sikorski. Europe’s challenge “is not just the American election,” Sikorski told EUobserver. “It’s also the continued assertiveness of Russia that is a revisionist power that has changed borders by force; it’s the failure and defeat in Syria, and also in the eastern neighborhood; and Brexit; and the continuing reverberations of the euro crisis and the creaking of the Schengen zone,” he added. “We’re in...

PARMA, Ohio — For nearly her entire life, Teresa Sikorski has been active in Democratic politics, starting as a 12-year-old who overcame her shyn ess to knock on doors for her big brother’s Cleveland City Council race in 1966. He lost that time. But her brother Dennis Kucinich went on to become Cleveland’s mayor and congressman, a two-time presidential candidate and one of the most passionate liberal voices in the his party. This year, Sikorski and her husband, Marty, quietly changed their party registration to Republican so they could vote in Ohio’s GOP primary. Their choice: Donald Trump. Sikorski, 63,...

King Stallion, the U.S. Marine Corps’ brand spanking new helicopter, completed its first flight Tuesday. The Marines’ new helo is incredibly advanced - it will be able to lift a whopping three times more weight than its predecessor.

Unsurprisingly, it turns out that an alleged Russian proposal to partition Ukraine with Poland in 2008 never happened. Now the Polish politician who made the claim, the ex-foreign minister and current speaker Radek Sikorski, is in a bit of trouble back home: The claim of a Russian offer was explosive, and dominated Polish media for much of the day Tuesday. But after an embarrassing series of news conferences, Mr Sikorski was forced to admit it had never happened. A media-savvy former reporter who has handled the press with aplomb for years, Mr Sikorski acknowledged that “my memory failed me,” and...

Confusion grows over the origin of a potential compromise on Syria as Poland throws its hat into the ring. WASHINGTON — According to a report in the German newspaper Die Welt, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski outlined a Syria chemical weapons deal similar to that proposed by the Russians to Secretary of State John Kerry well before the current deal became public. According to Die Welt, Sikorski called Kerry on August 29th and submitted to him a version of the plan later proposed by Kerry and the Russians. He also reportedly talked about the plan in person with Kerry during...

We took risk over anti-missile shield deal, says Sikorski Created: 23.03.2009 08:30 Poland’s foreign minister said Sunday that when Warsaw and Washington signed the anti-missile shield agreement in August last year they were assured by the American side that the issue was a “non-controversial one” and that Moscow would be persuaded that it was for defensive purposes only. Russia has strongly opposed the idea from the beginning, however, even threatening to station its own missile system in Kaliningrad, near the Polish border, in response. Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski made the remarks when in Brussels, after the EU spring summit. "We...

Sikorski snubbed over NATO top job Ed Wight (March 20, 2009) Germany, France and the UK have, apparently, fallen in behind the United States in backing the Dane Anders Fogh Rasmussen over Radek Sikorski, who has also served twice as Polish defence minister. While Mr Rasmussen could undoubtedly bring a wealth of experience to the job what may have set him apart from Mr Sikorski is that he exudes an air of neutrality. Mr Sikorski, at a time when the United States has placed great priority on currying favour with Moscow, could well be regarded as having too much latent...

Polish WWII leader's body exhumed By Adam Easton BBC News, Warsaw Prosecutors in Poland have exhumed the body of the country's World War II prime minister in an attempt to solve the mystery as to how he died. General Wladyslaw Sikorski died in a plane crash in Gibraltar in 1943. A British investigation ruled that it was an accident, but some historians in Poland believe Gen Sikorski died as a result of foul play. Prosecutors say they are investigating a communist crime. Poland's president and PM are backing the current inquiry. A small team of prosecutors, scientists and church officials...

General Wladyslaw Sikorski, the leader of Poland's wartime government in exile, died 65 years ago this month when his plane plunged into the sea off Gibraltar. A British inquiry in 1943 found that the crash was caused by the plane's controls jamming. But rumours persist of a plot to kill Gen Sikorski, whose defence of the Polish national cause threatened to derail Britain's relationship with the Soviet Union. Now Poland's president, Lech Kaczynski, and his prime minister, Donald Tusk, have demanded that Gen Sikorski's body be exhumed from its tomb in Wawel Cathedral in Krakow, the traditional burial place of...

Atlantic Eye: Radek Sikorski's patriotism Published: Nov. 12, 2007 at 9:07 AM By MARC S. ELLENBOGEN UPI International Columnist LONDON, Nov. 12 (UPI) -- The people of Poland have spoken. Thankfully, they have dumped Jaroslaw Kaczynski and his xenophobic Law and Justice Party, or PiS, for Donald Tusk. Tusk is the head of the centrist, free-market Civic Platform, or PO. A bone of contention is former Defense Minister Radek Sikorski, now nominated to be Poland's foreign minister, whose appointment Kaczynski has been attempting to block. Sikorski, an independent and severe critic of Communism, resigned as Poland's defense minister last year...

Poland's Sikorski quits over Afghanistan risks Feb 5, 2007, 17:00 GMT Warsaw - Poland's Defence Minister Radoslaw Sikorski quit Monday over what he termed 'difficulties' in reducing the risk for 1,000 Polish troops soon to be deployed in a dangerous NATO-led peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan. Sikorski, said he quit because he 'lacked the instruments' to minimize the grave risks the troops would faced in what he called Poland's 'most dangerous mission since WWII.' According to an unconfirmed Monday report in Poland's Dziennik daily, the 44-year old had been unhappy with Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski's choice of long-time fellow Law and...

Participation in foreign military missions necessary: Polish DM The participation of soldiers in military missions is necessary for Poland to meet its obligations toward the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), Poland's Defence Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Tuesday. Sikorski, bidding farewell to a group of 200 troops leaving for missions abroad, also rejected critical opinions voiced by some politicians on the sending of Poland's contingents abroad, "Let me remind you that it was the previous government, which decided to increase our presence in the ISAF mission in Afghanistan. Up to mid-2006 our four-year participation was symbolic. Now there are...

„Polish – American Partnership Opportunities and challenges for the 21st Century” Statement of Polish Minister of National Defense on the conference in CSIS. Washington 13 of September 2006. 2006-09-14 16:56:08 It’s my great pleasure to address you today on the occasion of the Polish Prime Minister’s visit to the US I believe this visit will further contribute to the Partnership between our countries, the Partnership that built on values, shared interests, and the will to act together. The foundations are strong and solid because they are based on the common perception of the security environment which is today increasingly unpredictable....

Poland's defense minister said in comments broadcast Thursday that his nation will send at least 900 troops to eastern Afghanistan next year. NATO said the offer did not ease the immediate need for 2,500 additional soldiers in the violence-wracked south. A NATO official said the Polish deployment was routine and had been arranged before the call for additional soldiers. The 900 new troops will join 100 Polish soldiers already in eastern Afghanistan, and NATO spokesman Lt. Col. Goetz Haffke said the Polish troops had been expected as part of a routine rotation of NATO troops. "This is part of a...

<p>Poland will send at least 900 troops to bolster the NATO mission in Afghanistan, its defense minister said.</p> <p>"As of February next year, over 1,000 Polish soldiers are going to be serving in Afghanistan," Radoslaw Sikorski told journalists Wednesday evening in Washington in comments broadcast on Polish television Thursday morning.</p>

Britain covered up WW2 "plot" to kill Polish PM By Peter Griffiths Mon Sep 4, 2:00 AM ET LONDON (Reuters) - A distinguished Polish pilot who said he found a bomb intended to blow up the plane of Poland's wartime leader admitted to lying but the episode was hushed up by Britain's government, secret files released on Monday showed. The apparent plot to assassinate General Wladyslaw Sikorski, who led the Polish government in exile until his death in 1943, sparked a big inquiry with suspicions it was a German or Russian conspiracy but it turned out the pilot took the...

Anniversary of the 1920 Battle of Warsaw marked as Polish Army Day 15.08.2006 Today is Polish Army Day. It is observed on the anniversary of the victorious battle of 1920 against the Soviet army fought on the outskirts of Warsaw. President Lech Kaczynski laid wreaths at the monument to Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the architect of that victory, and at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, where a ceremonial changing of the guard was held. A memorial to Polish soldiers who died in the peace and stabilizations missions has been unveiled in Warsaw. Since 1953 Polish troops have taken part in...

Polish defence minister calls for EU energy integration WARSAW, May 3 (Xinhua) -- The European Union (EU) should integrate its energy sectors as energy security is a crucial element of national security, Polish Defence Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said on Wednesday. Sikorski made the remarks in response to a question about his recent criticism of the German-Russian Northern Pipeline project, the Polish News Agency reported. Sikorski also announced that his ministry would soon take steps aimed at diversifying Poland's energy sources. On Sunday, the defense minister criticized the German-Russian project to build a gas pipeline under the Baltic seabed, because it...

Polish Defense Minister Proud to Have Polish Army Protecting Freedom in Iraq by Sebastian Kwiatkowski Posted Apr 24, 2006 Radek Sikorski travelled a long and winding road on his voyage to become Polish defense minister. When communist dictator Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski sent troops to the streets in Poland, Sikorski, at age 18, sought political asylum in Great Britain. Later, with a master's degree from Oxford University in his pocket, he travelled through Soviet-occupied Afghanistan with a Kalashnikov (AK-47) in hand as a war correspondent. As a foreign affairs expert, the author, journalist and World Press Photo prize winner, he is...

Poland will set own course, defense chief vows By Judy Dempsey International Herald Tribune TUESDAY, JANUARY 24, 2006 WARSAW Poland's new defense minister, Radek Sikorski, has firmly staked out the country's position as a rising regional power in Europe that will bend neither to Brussels nor Washington but intends to set its own line. Just three months into his job, Sikorski made it clear in an interview Monday night that he intended to pursue an ambitious international military agenda while modernizing the armed forces of a country that, he said, too often paid a high price for being weak in...