06 May 2026

Natolin Keynote Speech of the Academic Year 2025-2026

From 13:30 till 14:30
Auditorium Copernicus
Natolin (Warsaw) Campus

On 6 May 2026, the College of Europe in Natolin is pleased to host the Keynote Speech of the Academic Year 2025/2026 delivered by

Mr Radosław SIKORSKI, Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland

The event is open for students of the College of Europe in Natolin and invited guests.

About the guest:

Mr Radosław SIKORSKI has been appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs of Poland in December 2023 and Deputy Prime Minister in July 2025. 

Former Minister of Defense (2005-2007), Minister of Foreign Affairs (2007-2014) and Speaker of the Sejm (2014-2015). Lecturer (Senior Fellow) at the Center for European Studies at Harvard University and expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. 

War reporter in Afghanistan and Angola (1986-1989). In 2002-2005, he was a resident member of the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and executive director of the New Atlantic Initiative.

Together with Carl Bildt, he initiated the EU Eastern Partnership. Originator of the creation of the European Endowment for Democracy and the Solidarity Prize.

In 2014, he led an EU mission to Kyiv, which stopped the bloodshed on the Maidan.
Selected among the Top 100 Global Thinkers by Foreign Policy magazine "for speaking the truth, even if it is not diplomatic."

Author of the books: "Ashes of the Saints - a journey to Herat during the war", "Full circle. A homecoming to free Poland", "The Polish House - an Intimate History of Poland", "Decommunized zone - a river interview", "Poland can be better. Behind the scenes of Polish diplomacy” and “Poland. "State of the State".


 

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