The Polish Quarterly of International Affairs, 2015, no. 2 135 SZYMON BACHRYNOWSKI Between Europe and Russia: The Foreign Policy of Janusz Korwin-Mikke’s New Right in Poland Introduction and Overview Janusz Korwin-Mikke MEP is a well-known politician 1 and highly visible public igure in Poland, but his recognisability has never been transferred into signiicant electoral support, with the exception of the surprisingly good results his former political party, Kongres Nowej Prawicy (Congress of the New Right, KNP), achieved in the European Parliament elections of 2014, when it gained 7.15% of votes overall, giving it four out of 51 Polish MEPs. 2 Korwin-Mikke is known for his very strong views on both European and eastern foreign policy. Widely regarded as an opponent of the European Union (EU), he has recently been associated with support for Vladimir Putin’s Russia. 3 In this article, I irst describe and analyse Korwin-Mikke’s vision of Poland in Europe, and of Polish relations with the Russian Federation, particularly in the aftermath of the annexation of the Crimean peninsula and the subsequent escalation of the Ukrainian crisis. I then examine the ways in which Korwin-Mikke and his former party colleagues in the Congress of the New Right have manifested their foreign policy outlook through their 1 Janusz Korwin-Mikke was a Member of the Sejm (the lower chamber of the Polish Parliament) between 1991 and 1993, see http://orka.sejm.gov.pl/ArchAll2.nsf/1RP/170. 2 Oficial results of elections to the European Parliament in 2014, http://pe2014.pkw.gov.pl/ pl/#wojewodztwo. It should be emphasised that, since January 2015, the KNP has held only two seats in the European parliament, with the other two now belonging to a newly created party called Korwin, a splinter group from the KNP led by Korwin-Mikke himself. See: www.partiakorwin.pl. 3 For more details on Polish Euroscepticism, see: R. Markowski, J.A. Tucker, “Euroscepticism and the Emergence of Political Parties in Poland,” Party Politics, vol. 16, no. 4, 2010, pp. 523–548; B. Stanley, “From Periphery to Power: The Trajectory of Polish Populism, 1989–2012,” in: S. Bachrynowski (ed.), Populism in Central Europe—Challenge for the Future!, Green European Foundation, Warsaw, 2013, pp. 9–19, www.gef.eu, www.boell.org.