The Economist: Poland’s new foreign minister
New Polish designate ministers, Minister of Culture and National Heritage Malgorzata Omilanowska (L), Minister of Justice Cezary Grabarczyk (2nd L), Minister of Finance Mateusz Szczurek (2nd R) and Minister of Foreign Affairs Grzegorz Schetyna (R) pose for photographers during a press conference of Prime Minister Designate on Sept. 19, 2014.
Poland's outgoing foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, is a polyglot foreign-policy wonk who helped lead his country to its heftiest international presence in centuries. Grzegorz Schetyna is a party insider who has evinced little interest in international relations, and who, according to his mother, learned his English from the foreign basketball players on a team he used to help run in his native Silesia. But it was Mr Schetyna who was picked to replaced Mr Sikorski as foreign minister on Sept. 19, when Ewa Kopacz, Poland's new prime minister, presented her cabinet. At a time when Russia is threatening neighbouring Ukraine, even Mr Schetyna's mother, Danuta, says her son was reluctant to take the job.
