Paweł Świeboda
Paweł Świeboda (b. 1972) is President of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy. Graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of London, in the years 1996-2000 he served as the EU Advisor to the President of Poland. Later on as Director of the Department of the European Union in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs he was responsible for EU accession negotiations. A regular contributor to Gazeta Wyborcza, where he writes on European issues and foreign policy.
On 1st July, Poland will take on the rotating Presidency of the EU. Warsaw’s leading weekly argues that the country’s successful political and economic transformation should be an inspiration for crisis stricken Europe. 
Europe is at a crossroads, but will find a way if it shares with the rest of the world its attractive political, social and economic model, writes Paweł Świeboda.