Poland to appoint new ambassador to France after eight-month vacancy?
PR dla Zagranicy
Victoria Bieniek
15.05.2017 13:45
Tomasz Młynarski will soon be appointed Poland’s new ambassador to France after the previous ambassador was dismissed in September last year, the RMF radio station has reported.
Paris. Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Taxiarchos228.
Młynarski is an international relations and foreign policy professor at Kraków’s Jagiellonian University, the radio station said.
He is expected to be charged with improving Polish-French relations, which were strained after Warsaw ended talks over the purchase of 50 multi-role helicopters for the Polish army from France-based Airbus Helicopters, and again when, during his election campaign for the French presidency, Emmanuel Macron slammed Poland for "violating" the principles of the EU, according to RMF.
The previous ambassador to France, Andrzej Byrt, was dismissed less than two months into the role, after the Law and Justice (PiS) party took power in a general election in October 2015, the radio station said. (vb/pk)