Joe Biden appointed American lawyer Mark Brzezinski, son of a former great figure in American foreign policy, Zbigniew Brzezinski, on Wednesday August 4, as the United States' ambassador to Poland, despite the resistance lent to Warsaw by the Polish media.
Mark Brzezinski had already served in previous Democratic governments, notably as ambassador to Sweden under the presidency of Barack Obama.
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Aged 56, he is the son of Zbigniew Brzezinski, who was President Jimmy Carter's national security adviser at the turn of the 1980s. This influential voice of American diplomacy in the midst of the Cold War came from an aristrocratic family. from Poland, and her son speaks Polish. The appointment of Mark Brzezinski, which must be confirmed by a vote in the US Senate, has been in the air for some time. But according to Polish media, Warsaw had expressed reservations.
Poland is a close ally of the United States in Eastern Europe but has recently expressed its dissatisfaction with President Biden's decision to give a de facto green light to the controversial Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline between Russia and Germany. . Warsaw, for its part, has suffered from American criticism about a text under consideration by the Polish Parliament accused of "
undermining the independent media
" by targeting in particular the private channel TVN, owned by the American group Discovery Channel.
"
The persistent democratic regression of the Polish government, the latest manifestation of which is an effort to undermine independent media and one of the biggest American investments in the country, is of deep concern,
" a group of Democratic senators said on Wednesday. Republicans in a statement. In July, the spokesman for American diplomacy Ned Price had already warned Poland by asserting that "
a free and independent press
" was "
essential to democracy
".
