Source: European Leadership Network
The Center for European Studies hosted Bogdan Klich, the current minority opposition leader in the Polish Senate and a former Minister of Defense for Poland on March 16th as part of their partnership with the "European Union at the Crossroads of Global Order" (EUCROSS) research network grant hosted at the University of Leuven. The location of this event will be announced soon.
Bogdan Klich has been Senator in the Polish Parliament since 2011, is currently minority leader in the Senate, and is a former Minister of Defense for Poland (under Tusk government). Before entering the Senate, he was Minister of National Defence (2007–2011) and Member of the European Parliament (2004–2007) where he chaired the Delegation for Relations with Belarus. In the years 2001–2004, he was member of the Sejm (lower house of the Polish parliament). As the Deputy Minister of National Defence (1999–2000) he was responsible for Poland’s cooperation with NATO. He holds MD and MA in History of Art from the Jagiellonian University in Kraków. He is a lecturer at the Department of European Studies at the Jagiellonian University. Senator Klich authored numerous publications on foreign policy and international security.
The Senator spoke on “The future of NATO and The EU’s Common Security and Defense Policy (CSDP).”