PROWADZENIE POLITYKI ZAGRANICZNEJ W RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ POLSKIEJ
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2009
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Wydział Prawa i Administracji UAM
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CONDUCTING FOREIGN POLICY IN THE REPUBLIC OF POLAND
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The Constitution of 2 April 1997 explicitly grants the right to conduct Polish foreign policy to the
Council of Ministers, although the role of President as well as the Seym and Senate in this sphere of
state activity is also recognised. And indeed, in the present legal state, it is the government which is
the main animator of Poland’s activity on the international scene, notwithstanding the fact that
certain residual albeit important entitlements are vested in the Seym. They include deciding about
the state of war and negotiations of peace, or participation, along with the Senate, in ratification
processes of some (most important) international agreements. As far as the function of president is
concerned, the legislator’s intention was to minimise that role, reducing it to the representative of the
state in external relations, and taking co-lead in the foreign policy of the state. This solution, however,
has failed to have been successfully implemented and nowadays it seems that the main domain of
President as the chief of state is ratification of international agreements.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 71, 2009, z. 3, s. 9-18