Krzysztof Rak

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International relations, politics, migration

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Polish, English

BIOGRAPHY

Krzysztof Rak is a historian of diplomacy and philosophy, translator, publicist, expert in the field of international relations. He is a doctor of historical sciences (Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University) and managing director of the Polish-German Cooperation Foundation. He has been a journalist since the second half of the 1990s,. He published, among others in “Życie”, “Wprost”, Rzeczpospolita, “W sieci”, “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”, “Die Welt” and “Handelsblatt”.

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