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In this podcast, GMF Vice President of Programs Ivan Vejvoda discusses last month's historic agreement to normalize relations between Kosovo and Serbia.
Anchor Elaine Reyes speaks with Andrew Small, Transatlantic Fellow of the Asia Program for the German Marshall Fund, about Beijing's potential role in brokering peace between Israel and Palestine
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Sikorski, Feinstein cap conference on U.S.-Polish-European relationship May 28, 2011 / Warsaw
Polish Foreign Minister Radek Sikorski and U.S. Ambassador to Poland Lee Feinstein capped a German Marshall Fund conference in Warsaw with a reflection on U.S. President Barack Obama’s visit to Warsaw.
Sikorski said that the fact that Obama chose Poland to visit and host a meeting with regional actors sends a message that Poland likes. Feinstein said that the Warsaw visit showed how the United States and Europe will work together, and that democracy will be a focus of that partnership.
The May 28 conference, entitled “Finding a Balance for Poland, the United States, and Europe,” concluded a weekend that included the opening of GMF’s office in Warsaw. Sikorski also honored Ron Asmus with a posthumous medal celebrating Asmus’ work to expand democracy and security in Poland and the region, which he presented to Asmus’ wife, Barbara Wilkinson.
The conference began with a panel on rethinking transatlanticism. Washington Post columnist Anne Applebaum moderated a discussion with Kori Schake, a research fellow with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University; former Polish Foreign Minister Adam Daniel Rotfeld; and GMF Senior Transatlantic Fellow Constanze Stelzenmüller.
A second panel dealt with U.S.-Polish relations. Igor Janke, chief editor of Salon24, a Polish news website, moderated a panel with Polish Minister of Defense Bogdan Klich; Janusz Reiter, president of the Center for International Relations; and Kurt Volker, managing director at BGR Group.
The final panel addressed the EU’s Eastern Policy/Eastern Partnership. Jan Techau, director of Carnegie Europe, moderated a conversation among Olaf Osica, deputy director of the Centre for Eastern Studies; Ivan Krastev, chair of the Board of the Centre for Liberal Studies; and Jim Goldgeier, a senior fellow at the Transatlantic Academy.
