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Hungary could become the first former Soviet satellite to lose its democracy International Herald Tribune, Tuesday, January 24, 2012, p.8 pdf

Václav Havel, playwright and president Cari amici,                 come sapete stamane è scomparso Vaclav Havel, senza dubbio uno dei più geniali protagonisti del 20° secolo, degno interprete della grande tradizione umanista ceca di Hus, Comenio e Masaryk. Desidero informarvi che lunedì 23 gennaio alle 19, presso l’aula magna della mia università, sto cercando di organizzare [...]

EurActiv welcomes Poland’s Presidency of the EU Council of Ministers and provides independent editorial coverage of the Polish EU Presidency priorities.  As an official “Friend of the Polish EU Presidency”, EurActiv Poland will be featuring articles in a special EU Presidency section (http://www.euractiv.pl/prezydencja) providing regular coverage in Polish of topical policy areas over the six [...]

Poland’s EU Presidency programme is focused on three main priorities: “European integration as the source of growth”: Budget, Single Market. A “Secure Europe”: Food, energy, defence. A “Europe benefiting from openness”: Southern and Eastern Neighbourhood, Western Balkans, Russia and the Doha Round of trade talks.  Leggi tutto VEDI: Priorités de la présidence polonaise du Conseil [...]

In 2050, nearly one in three European citizens will be 65 or older. Demographic change and population ageing is one of the greatest challenges that will affect the structure of the EU economy over the next couple of decades, through its impacts on labour markets, pensions systems and public finances. The policy implications of this [...]

Il Paese si sta lasciando alle spalle l’era populista ed euroscettica dei fratelli Kaczynski. Il governo del liberale Tusk si prepara al semestre di presidenza europea e alle elezioni legislative del prossimo autunno potendo vantare una buona performance economica, malgrado la crisi finanziaria che ha colpito l’Europa. La riflessione sulla propria storia: il dibattito sull’Olocausto, [...]

… Poland, which takes over the rotating presidency of the European Union on July 1, can provide a special perspective for the Middle East and North Africa, specifically helping “in the transformation and democratization process,” the foreign minister, Radek Sikorski, said in an interview. The idea is that Poland, as a former Communist country that [...]

The Details about New World Bank report says Poland is on the right track to meet Europe 2020 targets but still needs a number of reforms in employment, education, and innovation displayed below Raising employment, improving skills, enhancing innovation and technology absorption will put Poland on track for higher growth rates, says the World Bank [...]

Poland’s foreign policy. Sikorski speaks The Economist, Mar 18th 2011, 13:07 by Edward Lucas | LONDON POLAND is the unquestioned diplomatic heavyweight of the ex-communist world. So Radek Sikorski’s annual outline of foreign policy is worth reading closely (disclosure: he’s a friend)…. Polish diplomacy has indeed never been more solid or more effective. But those [...]

Communism through the Eyes of Animals By Andrew Fenwick, TOL, March 23rd, 2011 … In a Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog & a Raven (published, rather appropriately, by Penguin), Croatian author Slavenka Drakulic looks at the rise [...]

A l’initiative des gouvernements polonais et britannique, neuf chefs d’Etat et de gouvernement ont envoyé le 18 mars une lettre commune aux présidents du Conseil européen et de la Commission européenne dans laquelle ils plaident pour une réforme économique au sein de l’entière Union européenne.  Afin de fournir à l’Union des fondations solides pour une [...]

One country, two societies? Germany twenty years after reunification Artur Ciechanowicz and Marta Zawilska-Florczuk, OSW Studies, 2011-02-15 | 3 October 2010 marked the twentieth anniversary of the reunification of the two German states. This is an occasion for summing up and evaluating the changes which have taken place in Germany since 1990. Germany became reunited [...]

Ha ragione Jacek Pawlicki su “Gazeta Wyborcza” a porsi adesso la domanda su come gli accadimenti mediterranei impatteranno sulla presidenza semestrale polacca dell’UE che comincerà nel giugno prossimo: “Tunezja, Egipt, Libia – konsekwencjami rewolt w tych krajach Polska będzie musiała zająć się od lipca. A nawet wcześniej. Przewodnictwo Polski w Radzie UE to szansa na [...]

Essay: Russia’s Reset and Central Europe by Edward Lucas, Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), 1 March 2011 CEPA Senior Fellow and International Editor of The Economist Edward Lucas offers an honest assessment of the historic gains achieved by the Polish-Russian rapprochement and the limitations that both it and the improvement in intra-European politics are [...]

  Country Internet Users  Percent   China 389,000,000 21.39% USA 245,000,000 13.47% Japan 99,182,000 5.45% Brazil 75,982,000 4.18% Germany 65,125,000 3.58% India 61,338,000 3.37% United Kingdom 51,444,000 2.83% France 45,262,000 2.49% Nigeria 43,989,000 2.42% Russia 40,853,000 2.25% South Korea 39,400,000 2.17% Mexico 31,020,000 1.71% Italy 29,235,000 1.61% Spain 28,119,000 1.55% Turkey 27,233,000 1.50% Canada 26,960,000 [...]

In febbraio a Varsavia summit del “triangolo di Weimar”: Francia, Germania, Polonia: “… Już podczas spotkania w Wilanowie Merkel i Sarkozy krytykowali premiera Donalda Tuska, który na ostatnim szczycie UE w Brukseli stanął na czele grupy państw (Grupy Wyszehradzkiej) sprzeciwiających się pomysłom ściślejszej integracji krajów strefy euro. Tzw. pakt dla konkurencyjności zakłada zbliżenie polityk gospodarczych i [...]

Non capita ogni giorno: il presidente polacco Bronisław Komorowski e il presidente tedesco Christian Wulff,  insieme nel campo di concentramento di Auschwitz-Birkenau.  Fonte: il sito del Presidente della Repubblica di Polonia. Thursday saw the 66th anniversary of the liberation of the German concentration camp Auschwitz being commemorated by Bronisław Komorowski, the President of Poland, and [...]

Our time has come – “è arrivato il nostro tempo, è il nostro turno, tocca a noi” — Credo che questo in estrema sintesi sia il punto di vista di chi scende in piazza dall’altra parte del Mediterraneo. In questa frase c’è sicuramente un ingrediente generazionale:  ”Ogni generazione ha la sua guerra. Questa è la nostra. [...]

The Baltic states in the increasingly stronger North-European club The Centre for Eastern Studies (OSW), 2011-01-26 UK Prime Minister David Cameron organised a meeting with the heads of the Nordic states’ governments and the three heads of governments of the Baltic States (the ‘NB8’ – Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia). The participants [...]

- Il paragone con l’89 è indubbiamente un modo semplice ed efficace per indicare che sulla riva Sud sta accadendo qualcosa di grosso, un cambiamento epocale. In una frase è presto tutto detto. – MA, d’altra parte, ciò che fa problema è che: – I paragoni con l’89 li facciamo “noi” perchè non abbiamo appropriate [...]

  “Una foto che tutti conoscono: un bambino con un berretto a visiera e le calze al ginocchio, con le mani sollevate in alto. Non si sa quando sia stata scattata. Durante la grande liquidazione, nel luglio oppure nell’ agosto del 1943? Durante l’insurrezione del ghetto di Varsavia, nell’aprile del 1943? O forse in un [...]

Jiří/Jiri Dienstbier  (1937-2011), già ministro degli Esteri cecoslovacco (1989-1992 – Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister of Czechoslovakia), è scomparso in questi giorni. (Sul rapporto tra teatro cecoslovacco e “rivoluzione di velluto” del 1989, vedi). ————-   FOTO sul MONUMENTO ALLA CORTINA DI FERRO Former German and Czechoslovak foreign ministers, Hans-Dietrich Genscher (left) and Jiri [...]

L’UER en appelle au Premier ministre hongrois pour garantir le pluralisme des médias Genève, le 14 janvier 2011 – L’UER/EBU-European Broadcasting Union, exhorte le Premier ministre hongrois (voir lettre ci-jointe, disponible en anglais seulement: Letter Dr Orban_14_01_2011) de prendre les mesures nécessaires pour s’assurer que la réforme audiovisuelle en Hongrie respecte le principe du pluralisme [...]

Dato che il 2011 vedrà nell’UE due presidenze est-europee (ora Ungheria, poi Polonia), ogni tanto compare qualche riflessione sul tema: “eredità comunista”. Quanto pesa questa eredità oggi? – è la domanda. In quali settori/aspetti si manifesta? Con quali conseguenze? Tra le risposte lette, isolo qualche appunto: – the new EU member states that joined the EU [...]

Nell’ambito cinematografico Cassino ha goduto nel decennio successivo alla fine della II guerra mondiale di una certa attenzione. - per esempio ne I diavoli verdi di Montecassino, di Harald Reinl, del 1958 (Die grünen Teufel von Monte Cassino). Film tedesco girato nel 1955, ricchissimo di scene documentaristiche, si incentra sul trasferimento dei beni culturali contenuti nell’abbazia a [...]

… L’Unione europea, che ha vissuto il 2010 sul filo delle difficoltà dell’euro, insidiato in Grecia e in Irlanda dalla speculazione finanziaria internazionale e mal difeso, inizialmente, specie a causa delle esitazioni tedesche, ha chiuso l’anno in gran spolvero: a un anno dall’entrata di vigore, il 1˚ dicembre, del Trattato di Lisbona, è nato il [...]

Sotto accusa la nuova legge sui media del governo ungherese, oggi guidato dal conservatore Orban. Repubblica la definisce una legge bavaglio. Per il Corriere: “I giornali in Ungheria sottomessi al governo. Imbarazzo della Ue”. E anche su La Stampa: “Budapest contro il potere di radio e tv”: e il quotidiano sottolinea che potrebbe trattarsi di [...]

Am reading a book on the friendship between Churchill and Lloyd George.  Here’s a quote from Ch to LG, dated 1920: Since the armistice my policy wd have been ‘Peace with the German people, war on the Bolshevik tyranny’. Willingly or unavoidably, you have followed something vy near the reverse. Knowing the difficulties, & also [...]

Su Katyn una svolta? La dichiarazione della Duma — Di certo il 26 novembre 2010 alla camera bassa della Duma, il Parlamento russo – (The Duma is dominated by the United Russia party led by Prime Minister Vladimir Putin) – al termine di  un dibattito straordinario e anche un’accanita discussione, pare, ci sono stati 342 si, 57 [...]

European Memory. A Blessing or a Curse? edited by: Leonidas Donskis and Ineta Dabašinskienė published by: A. Longo editore pp: 296 ISBN: 978-88-8063-622-9 price: € 20.00 How do the politics of remembering and the politics of forgetting relate to modernity? Is European memory the way out of painful dilemmas of modernity or it is just [...]

Czy Polska chce być w unijnej Grupie Sześciu? Polska dystansuje się od pomysłu Włoch, by stworzyć w UE grupę sześciu największych państw konsultujących główne unijne decyzje – leggi tutto ——– RASSEGNA ITALIANA, di Ada Pagliarulo e Paolo Martini Il Foglio sottolinea che la Polonia ha detto no alla proposta del ministro Frattini di creare un [...]

alcune riflessioni FW Article pour Paolo 7 – Umanesimo Mediterraneo Prix_morawski pdf

………. AND THE WINNER IS: Nella categoria: TV DOCUMENTARY Nella Sezione: CULTURAL AND GENERAL INTEREST Vince: POLAND – TVP “LECH MAJEWSKI – THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BRUEGEL” Director: Dagmara Drzazga – Producer: Adam Lukaszek – Script: Dagmara Drzazga “Lech Majewski – The world according to Bruegel” is a journey in art and imagination to discover, [...]

100 days of Yanukovych – the path to total power The new government is moving towards taking control over the informational sphere and the mass media. Meanwhile the opposition, which is divided internally and lacks a plan of action, has shown itself incapable of resisting the government, including in those cases where the latter has [...]

The Meanings of Jazz under State Socialism Public Conference of the Project “Jazz in the Eastern Bloc” Berlin, Freie Universität, Institute for East European Studies Director: Prof. Dr. Gertrud Pickhan – Coordinator: Dr. Rüdiger Ritter Project and conference are sponsored by the German Volkswagen-Stiftung Friday, June 11, 2010 18:00 Gertrud Pickhan: Conference Opening 18:15 Siegfried [...]

The pictures of old people sitting in court – when their fragile health actually allows them to appear in court – are truly sad. However this is not about persecuting old people but about establishing historical truth.  … We should not remain caught up in the past but the events need to be clarified… Totalitarian [...]

The evolution of Russia’s historical policy Russia is modifying its historical policy; it is giving up its vindications of Stalin, while at the same time defending the concept of the USSR’s role as liberator during the Second World War. Vedi anche il dossier pdf

The West and the Rest in the International Economic Order The international economic order has changed in the last 40 years and will no doubt go on changing, as leading economist, Angus Maddison (OECD Observer, ) explains. NB – This article is an adapted extract from Angus Maddison’s chapter, “The West and the Rest in the [...]

RUSSIA: PUBBLICATI DOCUMENTI SEGRETI SU MASSACRO POLACCHI A KATYN di Francesco Maria Cannatà, Corrispondente a Mosca dell’ AGI – Agenzia Giornalistica Italia Mosca, 28 apr. 2010 – A pochi giorni dal 65.mo anniversario del 9 maggio 1945, data della vittoria nella “grande guerra patriottica”, il Cremlino ha messo on-line il “dossier N°1″. I documenti sulla strage [...]

- finlandizzazione dell’Ucraina?  Ukraina – na własne życzenie – może się upodobnić do sąsiedniej Białorusi. Gospodarczo jest ona tak zależna od Rosji, do tego stopnia przyjęła rosyjskie standardy, że nie może wybić się na pełną samodzielność. Nie wiadomo, czy Ukraina jest od wczoraj sfinlandyzowana. Ale na pewno wykonała krok w tę stronę + Suwerenność Ukrainy [...]

… just arrived in Tallinn from Lemberg via Munich, Berlin, Warsaw. 13-hours in the car with delightful Swedish ambassadorial company. Best answer to my question asking for advice on how best to get from Warsaw to Tallinn was a laconic “skype”… Edward Lucas pdf

Putin e  Tusk insieme a Katyn in aprile: ecco una grande novità! Katyn su europa feb 2010 Putin to Attend Katyn Massacre Memorial Reuters, 04 February 2010 Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and his Polish counterpart, Donald Tusk, will attend a memorial service in April to commemorate the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by Soviet forces [...]

VEDI: Poland: Reliable Source? by Marynia Kruk, TRANSITIONS ONLINE, 12 November 2009 While paying lip service to diversifying its supply of natural gas, Warsaw inks a long-term deal with Gazprom. WARSAW | In late October, nearly a year after the Russian-Ukrainian crisis left Poland with a 2.5 billion cubic meter shortfall of natural gas for [...]

1989 en vidéos. Quelques liens vers des vidéos qui ont marqué l’année 1989. alcune segnalazioni dal sito La Chute du Mur – Churchill sulla Cortina di ferro a Fulton – The Iron Curtain Diaries: il trailer * Discours de Ronald Reagan à Berlin, « Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall », Berlin, 12 juin 1987 * Discours [...]

The Guarini Institute for Public Affairs, in cooperation with Accademia d’Ungheria, Ambasciata di Polonia, Ambasciata della Repubblica Slovacca and Istituto Culturale Ceco, cordially invites you to attend the film presentations and conference: Guarini Institute for Public Affairs – Fall 2009 20 YEARS AFTER THE FALL OF THE BERLIN WALL Monday, November 9, 2009 – 8:15 [...]

Klaus signs, Lisbon Treaty fully ratified EurActiv.com, Tuesday 3 November 2009 Czech President Václav Klaus again surprised friends and foes alike by signing his country’s Lisbon Treaty ratification today (3 November) at 15.00 CET, just hours after the Czech Constitutional Court had given the text its green light. The EU’s reform treaty is now fully [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics, 03/11/2009 Postimees – Estonia – Marked differences between Baltic economies In its autumn reports on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania the International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrives at widely diverging conclusions, the Estonian daily Postimees notes: “The material on Estonia takes up only four pages, for Lithuania it’s only one and a half, but [...]

Debata “Europe talks to Europe” Breaking the bonds of national mythology Warsaw debate on memory and European citizenship 21-10-2009 The second debate in Eurozine’s series “Europe talks to Europe” takes place on 27 October in Warsaw. On a panel entitled “Breaking the bonds of national mythology”, Arne Ruth and Danuta Glondys will discuss politics of [...]

Germany: Controversies over the Nazi laws regarding the Polish minority ANALYTICAL NEWSLETTER FOR CENTRAL EUROPE, GERMANY, THE BALkANS & THE BALTIC STATES – OŚRODEK STUDIÓW WSCHODNICH IM. MARKA KARPIA – CENTRE FOR EASTERN STUDIES – issue 36(48) – 21.10.2009 On 15 October, the Germany Ministry of Justice refused to make voida Nazi decree of 1940. [...]

Political divide remains over Molotov-Ribbentrop pact [de]  EurActiv, Published: Thursday 15 October 2009    Members of the European Parliament continue to oppose each other over the significance of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact, which divided Eastern Europe between the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. Background: 2009 marks two important events: the 20th anniversary of democratic change in Central [...]

1939 – Hitler, Stalin and Eastern Europe. Geschichtswerkstatt Europa  The international Forum will take place on 16 – 20 September 2009 in Wroclaw / Poland. The thematic focus is the year 1939 and, in particular, the „Hitler-Stalin-Pact“. The pact had far-reaching consequences which are still firmly embedded in the remembrance landscapes of Germany and Poland. [...]

Unoccupied Britain. It looks simpler from across the Channel Dal BLOG di Edward Lucas, From Economist.com, Oct 15th 2009 TWEAK history a bit. Imagine that in 1940 Hitler and Stalin divide Britain between them. Both occupying powers behave abominably but in different ways. After a rigged election, Scotland is declared part of the Soviet Union. [...]

Segnalati da Euro-topics A historical treaty – with major obstacles – El País, Spain (13/10/2009) – The foreign ministers of Turkey and Armenia have signed a treaty that aims to regulate the resumption of diplomatic relations between the two countries. The left-liberal daily El País describes this as an important step but remains sceptical: “The [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics Rainer Bieling on the brave virtual world of the GDR The German Democratic Republic (GDR) ceased to exist on October 3, 1990. Rainer Bieling writes in the conservative daily Die Welt that after its demise as a state, communist East Germany continued its existence as a virtual project by preserving its intellectual [...]

Martin Šimečka on coming to terms with the communist past Dilema Veche – Romania After the end of the socialist dictatorships there was hope that Central Europe would be able to contribute new ideas to the Western world of politics, Slovak journalist Martin Šimečka writes. But he concludes in the weekly Dilema Veche that this [...]

Not Above the Law. No moral objection to Polanski’s arrest From The Times, September 29, 2009 The conservative daily The Times – United Kingdom, comments on the arrest of film director Roman Polanski on his entering Switzerland on the weekend. Talent and personal tragedy should not have kept Roman Polanski free When Roman Polanski won [...]

Du 7 au 9 septembre, le Président ukrainien Viktor Iouchtchenko était en Pologne pour une visite officielle de deux jours. Il a rencontré le Président polonais Lech Kaczynski ainsi que le Premier ministre polonais Donald Tusk afin de discuter en priorité de l’adhésion de l’Ukraine à l’Union européenne, que M. Tusk a assuré soutenir, tout [...]

The international objectives of Russia’s historical campaign / 2 Russian leaders are advocating a new European security order with Russia as a key player Marek Menkiszak, East Week, issue 29(179), 3 september 2009, published by Centre for eastern studies/Ośrodek studiów wschodnich The intensive historical campaign which has been ongoing in Russia in recent weeks, in [...]

Russia, Poland and history. Mr Putin regrets. Russia bandages a wound in Poland Dal BLOG di Edward Lucas, Sep 3rd 2009, From The Economist print edition IT IS hard to imagine modern Germany haggling with Poland about opening wartime archives, let alone over who started the war. With Russia, it is different. Vladimir Putin’s visit [...]

1 settembre 2009. Celebrazioni a Danzica, ma la storia è ancora un campo di battaglia Internazionale Di acqua ne è passata sotto i ponti e i grandi nemici di un tempo ora convivono nel parlamento europeo. Eppure, a settant’anni dall’invasione tedesca della Polonia, atto che la maggior parte degli storici indica come l’inizio della seconda [...]

Anniversario del patto. Stalin-Hitler, Russia divisa IL Secolo XIX.it, 22 agosto 2009 Il Cremlino ha lanciato da tempo una campagna per riaffermare il ruolo chiave dell’Urss staliniana nella sconfitta del nazismo, ma c’è un episodio storico che rischia di creare un certo imbarazzo: il trattato di non aggressione tra Urss e Germania, noto anche come [...]

Hírszerző – Hungary Jan Mainka on the significance of historic photos for Hungary On the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Pan-European picnic, a peace demonstration on the border between Austria and Hungary, Jan Mainka reflects in the weekly newspaper Hírszerző on the significance of this and other events for Hungary’s international standing today: [...]

Eesti Päevaleht – Estonia Rein Taagepera on the anniversaries of the Baltic Chain and the Baltic Appeal On 23 August 1989 roughly two million people formed a chain from Estonia across Latvia to Lithuania to mark the 50th anniversary of the Hitler-Stalin Pact, which put an end to the independence of the three Baltic states. [...]

TRE ANNIVERSARI ‘Three major anniversary events take place in Europe this year: the anniversaries of 1 September 1939, 4 June 1989, and the anniversary of the collapse of the Berlin Wall,’ explained culture minister Bogdan Zdrojewski at a press conference yesterday. ‘Two of those events take place in Poland.’ Mr Zdrojewski also spoke about the [...]

Evenimentul Zilei – Romania Vladimir Tismaneanu on concentration camps and the Gulag During the Angelus prayers at Castel Gandolfo, his summer residence, Pope Benedict XVI last Sunday described the Nazi concentration camps as “symbols of hell on earth”. He should have mentioned the Soviet Gulag as well, writes political expert Vladimir Tismaneanu in the daily [...]

58 centymetrów Stalina Leopold Unger, GW 2009-08-18 Kiedy zaczęła się II wojna światowa? Zależy dla kogo. Dla Polaków 1 września inwazją niemiecką od zachodu uzupełnioną 17 września najazdem sowieckim od wschodu. Dla Francuzów i Brytyjczyków 3 września, czyli w dniu ogłoszenia wojny z Niemcami. Dla Belgów w maju 1940, kiedy Wehrmacht rozbił mit o ich [...]

Baltic human chain of 1989 added to Unesco’s Memory of the World Register Segnalato da Euro-topics – Latvijas Avīze – Latvia — On August 23, 1989 a million people formed a chain stretching from Estonia across Latvia to Lithuania and joined hands in commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact that marked the [...]

Questions abound over Ukraine’s European future EuraActiv, Friday 31 July 2009 Ukraine is currently in the midst of negotiations to conclude a wide-ranging association agreement – including visa-free travel – with the EU, while some of the country’s politicians harbour hopes of a clearer “European perspective”. EurActiv offers an overview of different scenarios for the [...]

Eastern Europe big loser in Parliament horsetrading EurActiv, Thursday 23 July 2009 Prominent Eastern European MEPs feel their countries are under-represented on European Parliament committee executives, EurActiv has learned. Meanwhile, as horsetrading drew to a close, it emerged that France had punched below its weight, according to experts. Leggi tutto ———- Pravo – Czech Republic [...]

Eastern Europeans appeal to Obama In an open letter to US President Barack Obama seven former Central and Eastern European leaders last Wednesday expressed their concern about Obama’s policy towards Russia. They warned that Russia was a “revisionist power” and appealed to Obama not to neglect the strategic interests of their region. An Open Letter [...]

Sono passati due decenni dalla caduta del muro di Berlino e dalla liberazione degli Stati dell’Europa occidentale dalla dipendenza sovietica e ora un polacco conquista il posto di guida dell‘Europa occidentale. I nuovi Stati membri che appartenevano al blocco orientale sono ancora arretrati economicamente rispetto a quelli occidentali. Negli scorsi anni la coesione interna all’Ue [...]

Un giorno per ricordare le vittime dei regimi di Hitler e Stalin Parlamento europeo, 03-07-2009 Tra le atrocità della storia, impossibile dimenticare il patto di non belligeranza siglato nell’agosto 1939 tra la Germania nazista e la Russia sovietica. Questo accordo ha portato per anni il terrore nei territori spartiti tra le due dittature. Il Parlamento [...]

PE, BUZEK ELETTO PRESIDENTE AL PRIMO SCRUTINIO STRASBURGO L’eurodeputato polacco Jerzey Buzek è il nuovo presidente del Parlamento europeo. L’assemblea lo ha eletto al primo scrutinio con 555 voti favorevoli… Jerzy Buzek otrzymał 555 głosów z 713 oddanych. 69 głosów było nieważnych. Polaka poparło aż pięć największych frakcji politycznych w PE. Jest to oczywiście macierzysta, [...]

Poland remembers Geremek Polskie radio 13.07.2009 Today marks the anniversary of the tragic death of Professor Bronisław Geremek, who died in a car crash, one year ago. Geremek was one of the key figures in the anti-communist Solidarity movement, and a member of the Round Table Talks in 1989. He was foreign minister from 1997 [...]

Dealing with the Past in East-Central Europe December 2-3, 2007 An international conference with: Jon Elster (Columbia University), Marek Kornat (Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw), Zdislaw Krasnobebski (University of Bremen), Pawel Machcewisz (University of Torun), John Micgiel (Columbia University), Piotr Naimski (Former Vice-Minister for Economics, Poland and Higher School of Business, National-Louis University, Nowy Sacz), [...]

- Il PATTO nazi-sovietico: copia del documento originale in inglese – La Risoluzione dell’OCSE vedi  e qui - VILNIUS 3 July 2009 – The 18th Annual Session of the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly today adopted its concluding document, the Vilnius Declaration, outlining a set of policy recommendations to the governments of the OSCE participating States. The Declaration, [...]

Carmen Musat on the condemnation of the communist past , Observator Cultural – Romania (07/07/2009) Carmen Musat, editor-in-chief of the weekly Observator Cultural, writes about the reviewal of the communist past, picking up on the question raised by Polish journalist Adam Michnik: “How can we confront the past?”: “After the fall of communism we basically [...]