As the Polish Foreign Minister said at the forum last week, Poland – a country that lost its sovereignty in 1941, was invaded, colonised and had its freedom snuffed out – re-emerged in the early 1990s and, in the short time since coming into the light of freedom and sovereignty, has said it wishes to be part of the European family. When I asked the Foreign Minister the reason this was so, she said it was because Poland wants to be at the centre of the decision-making process and did not want decisions made about it and Europe's future while it was outside.