Radoslaw Sikorski
The pretender
By Krzysztof Bobinski - 10.01.2008 / 00:00 CET
The fall of communism in
Poland produced many astonishing political careers as the regime's former opponents emerged from cramped, book-lined apartments to take their places in roomier halls of power. Few, however, have followed as adventurous a trail as
Radoslaw Sikorski, the foreign minister, who was once a bright schoolboy from Bydgoszcz, a provincial centre in the north-west.
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Fact file
The CV
1963: Born, Bydgoszcz, Poland
1983-86: Studies at
Oxford University1986-89: Reporter in
Afghanistan and Angola for UK media
1989: Returns to Poland to represent
Rupert Murdoch1992: Deputy minister of defence
1998: Deputy minister of foreign affairs
2002-05:
American Enterprise Institute, resident fellow
2005: Minister of defence, Law and Justice government
2007: Leaves Law and Justice government
2007: Appointed minister of foreign affairs in Civic Platform government
The Dutch foreign minister enjoys the rough-and-tumble of his trade.
A rather unconvincing claim of innocence.
A man people hire if they need someone who can get results under taxing conditions.
Markos Kyprianou is missing Brussels.
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