The Minister of Foreign Affairs, following the recommendation of the Award Committee of the 35th competition for the best master’s thesis in Polish foreign policy, decided not to award the first, second and third degree prize.

At the same time, three distinctions were awarded to:

Mateusz Jagodziński for his thesis “Polish Eastern Policy – the security dimension”, written at the Department of Political Systems and Human Rights of Maria Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin;

Maciej Kopytowski for his thesis “Restrictive measures introduced by the European Union against the Russian Federation in the face of the principles of European Union law as expressed by the Court of Justice of the European Union”, written at the Department of European Law, University of Warsaw;

Magdalena Kurek for the thesis “Jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights in cases against Poland concerning violation of the right to freedom of expression”, written at the Institute of Applied Social Sciences, University of Warsaw.