Poland has a good economic tie-up with the UK — it’s our third trade partner after Germany and the Czech Republic. If Brexit is a reality, Poland also wants to use it positively for ourselves, for our economy. The Polish government expects some companies to move from the UK to Poland — financial companies, service companies. We are trying to encourage tie-ups between Polish companies and British and foreign companies that are in the UK, and the best would be for us to convince some of them to move to Poland as a European hub - said dr Małgorzata Bonikowska in a comment for "Gulf News" - the biggest selling English newspaper in the UAE. 

Economic and financial stability in Europe is a common good, which becomes fragile nowadays. European societies blame political elites for this uncertainty. "More Europe" doesn't work anymore, but perhaps "Better Europe" will - if we take advantage of the present crisis to fix what is not working properly - said dr Małgorzata Bonikowska, president of the Centre for International Relations, at a Warsaw Security Forum panel “New post-crisis approaches on how to improve financial stability and economic security in Europe”. Amongst noble speakers there were: Marek Belka, f. Prime Minister of Poland, Ralf Jansen, General Counsel, Member of the Management Board, European Stability Mechanism and Michał Krupiński, President of the Board, PZU. The debate was moderated by dr Paweł Wojciechowski, f. Polish Minister of Finance.

Those last years there were some important disagreements between the USA and Israel, especially on the Israeli-Palestinian negotiations and the Iranian nuclear deal, which was the major crisis in Israeli-American relations. Despite these disagreements, highly important security and defence issues remain untouchable – both countries still cooperate in this matter - said experts during the CIR debate "Israel and its place in the international order" organised in the frame of the discussion series "World: Inspirations". The experts during the debate were: Bogdan Klich, dr Wojciech Szewko, prof. Eytan Gilboa, prof. Amtzia Baram, dr Jerzy Wójcik, Ewa Junczyk-Ziomecka, dr Maciej Kozłowski, Piotr Puchta. The moderators of the debate were Eugeniusz Smolar and dr Małgorzata Bonikowska.