Kai-Olaf Lang
(b.1967) is a researcher at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP) [Foundation for Science and Policy], Berlin. He is an expert on the foreign and security policies of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovakia, and their respective candidacies for EU membership.
Articles published in the Partner Section
On the road to the IV Republic?
The Polish parliamentary elections of 25 September 2005
The conservative forces of the Law and Justice Party (PiS) and the Citizens Platform (PO) emerged as the clear winners of the recent Polish elections. However, tensions between the statist and Eurosceptic PiS and the bourgeois liberal PO are already showing. As a result, the PiS will be able to implement its project for a IV Republic only in weakened form. [more]





