Open AccessRefugees/migrants and border security in the annual address of Poland’s foreign ministers in the years 2014–2016
Author(s) -
Piotr Pochyły
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
przegląd politologiczny
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2956-5081
pISSN - 1426-8876
DOI - 10.14746/pp.2017.22.3.7
Subject(s) - annexation , parliament , council of ministers , political science , refugee , foreign policy , politics , government (linguistics) , public administration , economic justice , border security , power (physics) , law , european union , international trade , business , linguistics , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The article presents the attitudes of Poland’s foreign ministers towards refugees/migrants and border security in the years 2014–2016 expressed in their annual address. The research problem is to determine whether the ministers presented in their address generally accepted long-term strategies for all directions of foreign policy, or whether their activities in the analysed area were merely adaptive, adjusted to the current political situation in the world. The temporal scope is to determine the response after the annexation of Crimea by Russia in late February 2014 of the ministers of the Civic Platform – Polish People’s Party (PO-PSL) government in 2011–2015, and the Law and Justice (PiS) government, that came into power on 16 November 2015. The content of the address and transcripts of the proceedings of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Polish Parliament during which the ministers discussed the theses of their speeches are the primary sources.