Starring in “Our Backyard”, a 1980 Polish children’s television series, eight-year-old Rafał Trzaskowski appeared to have a promising career as an actor in his sights. It did not work out that way. Thirty-five years later as an expert on European Union affairs, he has moved smoothly from academia to the European Parliament and on to government. Few people doubt that the Polish government’s ‘golden boy’, now 43, will rise high: the question is where – in Brussels or in Warsaw?
Trzaskowski’s appointment as Europe minister in September 2014 coincided with the start of Poland’s second decade in the EU. The EU …read more
Source: European Voice
