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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 [...]

The Expulsion of Germans from the East Copyright © 1963-2009, NYREV Of the 12 million or so Germans who fled or were expelled from Eastern Europe at the end of the war, the vast majority came from Czechoslovakia (3.5 million) or Poland (7.8 million). Most of the second group came from lands taken from the [...]

Holocaust: The Ignored Reality By Timothy Snyder, The New York Review of Books, VOLUME 56, NUMBER 12, JULY 16, 2009 (USA) Yale historian Timothy Snyder calls for a complete review of the way we see the Holocaust, because the symbolic power of Auschwitz has closed our eyes to the fact that until 1943, when most [...]

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo Karl Schlögel looks at the molecular movements that brought down the Berlin Wall, Signandsight.com 24/03/2009 Looking at “historical moments” renders everything else invisible. The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the [...]

Russian Institute for Cultural Research have the pleasure to announce the International Conference “Russia and Poland: The Duty of Memory and the Right to Oblivion” to be held October 22 through October 24, 2009 in Moscow. This conference invites Russian and foreign experts in cultural studies, philosophy, history, philology, sociology, political science, art studies, psychology, [...]

Published on 16 June 2009 A complacent strategy focusing on slow change rather than pressing crises is losing the EU its battle with Russia for influence in the eastern neighbourhood, according to a new report by the European Council on Foreign Relations. The report predicts dire consequences for the six eastern neighbours of the EU [...]

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo Karl Schlögel looks at the molecular movements that brought down the Berlin Wall. Karl Schlögel is the recipient of the 2009 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding and teaches East European history at the University of Frankfurt an der Oder, Signandsight.com, 24/03/2009 The article originally appeared in Osteuropa magazine [...]

For Timothy Garton Ash, Europe Means Shared History Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, June 07, 2009   TALLINN — What does it mean to be European, and what is Europe’s future? For answers, RFE/RL correspondent Ahto Lobjakas spoke to British historian and essayist Timothy Garton Ash in the Estonian capital, Tallinn, after attending “Rethinking Enemies of Open [...]

Lenin Stands Firm In Kyiv RFE/RL, June 11, 2009 At least a dozen statues of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin remain standing in the Ukrainian capital, Kyiv. Some residents see them as simple historical monuments; others have tried to take down the statues with their own hands. But as disputes continue at the municipal and national levels, [...]

Latvia to shut commission on Soviet ‘occupation’ to save money RIGA, June 12 (RIA Novosti) 12/06/2009 Latvia has decided for financial reasons to suspend the work of its commission to calculate the damage from the Soviet “occupation,” a government spokesman said on Friday. The decision was taken at an extraordinary government session on Thursday evening, [...]

OPINION EUROPE JUNE 11, 2009 Kremlin’s Crimes Is Russia determined to repeat its history? By JANUSZ BUGAJSKI, The Wall Street Journal, JUNE 11, 2009, page A14. From today’s Wall Street Journal Europe. Mr. Bugajski is is director of the New European Democracies program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington D.C. As [...]

European leaders spread message to young people 05.06.2009, Warsaw – To commemorate the 4th of June 1989, leaders of European states and governments who have gathered in Kraków addressed a special Message to young people. The past two decades are marked with substantial achievements. However, if we want to live in a civilisation based on [...]

APPUNTI Sin qui la più grande elezione europea. Un’occasione persa. PARTECIPAZIONE al MINIMO STORICO. Affluenza alle urne circa 43%, il minimo storico rispetto a tutte le precedenti elezioni. Vittoria in tutta Europa del centrodestra: vittoria dei partiti popolari, conservatori o di destra. In molti paesi avanzano destre antieuropee anche estreme, formazioni euroscettiche o di estrema [...]

Europe view 134, history Dal BLOG di Edward Lucas, Saturday, June 06, 2009 Magistra vitae? May 28th 2009, From Economist.com The fine line between disagreement and propaganda FORGET gas, nukes or Iran. The deep divide between Russia and its western neighbours is about history. President Dmitry Medvedev has set up a commission to look at [...]

History, again Dal BLOG di Edward Lucas, Jun 4th 2009, From Economist.com Misaligned histories in Britain and eastern Europe BRITAIN is gripped by a feeling of historical injustice. The 65th anniversary of the D-Day landings has been hijacked by the ungrateful French and self-obsessed Americans. President Nicolas Sarkozy wants to grandstand with Barack Obama. Neither [...]

Geremek Memorial Foundation launched Polskie radio 06.06.2009 A Foundation named after the late Foreign Minister Bronislaw Geremek has inaugurated its activities in Warsaw. The Foundation was established by Bronislaw Geremek’s family and friends. Its goals are to document and promote the political and academic legacy of one of Poland’s most prominent members of the democratic [...]

20 Years On. A look back at the world-changing events of June 1989 William Brand, Krakow Post, 3rd June 2009 When the celebrations marking the anniversary of the June 4, 1989 Polish parliamentary election are held in Krakow this month, political distractions should not obscure the fact that ending communist control in a European country [...]

Zamoyski: Reflections on the Bloodless Revolution Nick Hodge, Karokow Post, 3rd June 2009 Historian Adam Zamoyski considers the Collapse of Communism KP: In your new book, Poland: A History, you raised the issue that whilst many minor informers had been exposed, some of the communists who had blood on their hands had gotten off scot [...]

Vent’anni fa, il 4 giugno 1989, Solidarnosc vinse le elezioni in Polonia. I Polacchi scelsero la libertà. Era l’inizio del ritorno della democrazia nell’Europa Centrale. VEDI INFO, pagina ufficiale delle celebrazioni del 20° anniversario della caduta del Comunismo nell’Europa Centrale The Commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Outbreak of World War II and the [...]

European histories: First conference texts published The 22nd European Meeting of Cultural Journals was a resounding success, with over eighty representatives of cultural journals from Iceland to Bosnia, Ireland to Belarus meeting in Vilnius last month to discuss the subject of “European Histories”. It is not often that participants of such events say that it [...]

History And The Politics Of Blame by Peter Lavelle, Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, May 26, 2009 The past is never really in the past as long as it pervades our present. And recent history is very much with us. This is why Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has established a commission to protect against “falsification of [...]

The Warsaw ghetto. From beyond the grave Edward Lucas, Mar 12th 2009, From The Economist print edition A remarkable secret archive tells the story of life in the Warsaw ghetto ———- Who Will Write our History? Rediscovering a Hidden Archive from the Warsaw Ghetto, By Samuel D. Kassow, Vintage; 522 pages; $16.95. Allen Lane; £10.99. [...]

The Baltic – a dubious collective name Latvia has been harder hit by the economic crisis than Estonia. However the false image of a homogenous Baltic region will mean that the problems of one country are automatically seen to be affecting the others, the daily Postimees writes critically. “The rest of the world often lumps [...]

Germany: 2000th anniversary of the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest The commemoration of numerous anniversaries in 2009 lead to many historical debates about German identity, amongst others about the meaning of the defeat of the Roman legions fighting with Germanic tribes in 9 AD. The anniversary of the victory of the Germanic chief Arminius was [...]

Eastern Partnership: Hard to Love, Impossible to Ignore by Lubos Palata (journalist for the Czech daily Lidove noviny)TRANSITIONS ONLINE, 15 May 2009Translated by Victor Gomez. … While the Eastern Partnership was conceived by the Poles and Swedes rather than the Czechs, the government in Prague quickly adopted the project as its own, as did the [...]

Central and Eastern Europe. No panic, just gloom May 14th 2009, From The Economist print edition The region as a whole may have avoided economic meltdown, but several countries still face a painful slump THANKS to a mix of luck and good decisions, the economic apocalypse that loomed over central and eastern Europe seems to [...]

Polonia/ Sikorski su Partenariato Est: nostro grande successo. Ministro Esteri sottolinea: tutta Ue ha apprezzato iniziativa Roma, 8 mag. (Apcom-Nuova Europa) “È stato un giorno di successo per la Polonia”. Così all’indomani del summit Ue a Praga sul Partenariato per l’Est, ha commentato Radoslaw Sikorski, ministro degli Esteri polacco, tra i Paesi promotori insieme alla [...]

Der Tagesspiegel – Germany Criticism of jury’s decision on German reunification monument The competition for the design of a national monument to German reunification 20 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall has failed: None of the 563 designs that were submitted was considered to be good enough. Several artists and architects who competed, [...]

da RASSEGNA ITALIANA – di Ada Pagliarulo, Paolo Martini … Il Senato ceco, scrive La Repubblica, ha approvato ieri la ratifica del trattato di Lisbona, già approvato dalla Camera in febbraio, ma il Presidente Klaus, considerato un euroscettico, ha subito fatto sapere di non aver per ora intenzione di mettere la sua firma, analogamente a [...]

Ukraine: The Odessa-Brody pipeline issue in focus again East Week, analitical newsletter issue 17 (167), 6 maggio 2009, Centre for Eastern studies The business and technological study for the Odessa-Brody oil pipeline was officially approved by the international company Sarmatia on 24 April. According to the study, using the pipeline to transport Caspian oil to [...]

Battlefield Europe. Transnational commemoration and European identity Claus Leggewie, Eurozine Europeans, the world’s largest “people in spe”, must develop a pan-European historical awareness if only to be able to deal better with common political problems, argues Claus Leggewie in an article first published in German in Blätter für deutsche und internationale Politik. The memories of [...]

Euro-topics, European Press Review of 30/04/2009 MAIN FOCUS: EU eastward enlargement five years on The EU eastward enlargement took place five years ago on May 1. The accession of ten Eastern European countries marked a first: the entry of former East Bloc states into the EU. The European press takes stock. Gazeta Wyborcza – Poland [...]

L’Ukraine selon Ioulia Timochenko. Entre révolution orange et contre-révolution bleue? Par Sébastien GOBERT, Regard sur l’Est, 31/04/2009 Il y a déjà bien longtemps que l’euphorie de la révolution orange de novembre-décembre 2004 s’est dissipée. De même que la grâce de ses égéries. Les rivalités politiques au sommet de l’Etat entre le Président Viktor Iouchtchenko et [...]

Poland and Germany need new start for the sake of Europe Adam Jasser (Author is Director of Programmes and Member of the Board of demosEUROPA – Centre for European Strategy), in Girodivite, Monday 27 April 2009, by Emanuele G. It’s about time Poland and Germany made a fresh start as neighbours and partners in the European [...]

Last turn in the genocide issue Mehmet Ali Birand, Medarabnews, 28/04/2009 Let’s not get upset with others or blame them. We are the ones responsible for this. We have ignored the Armenian genocide for 94 years. They have worked like bees, created a honeycomb and established an enormous beehive. And we only watched them. We [...]

Norman Manea on the unifying light from the West The Romanian writer Norman Manea reflects in El País about the developments in Eastern European countries since the fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, and the persistent desire to join forces with Europe: “The wish to become an integral part of Europe is fed [...]

SEEMO/IPI marks tenth anniversary of NATO strike on Radio-Television Serbia (RTS) Vienna, 23 April 2009 Exactly ten years after NATO bombed the headquarters of Serbian state radio and television (RTS), the Vienna based South East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), an affiliate of the International Press Institute, today calls for NATO to ensure an independent investigation [...]

Media landscapes: Central and eastern Europe Democratic pieties aside, the liberalization of eastern Europe after 1989 was all about markets. The few were quick to turn the new economic freedoms to their advantage, while the political freedoms of the many often remained hypothetical. Now, twenty years on, what might have been seen as teething troubles [...]

Segnalato da Euro-topics – Revista 22 – Romania Europe is divided regarding condemnation of communism The Czech EU Council presidency recently invited several Eastern European institutions that deal with the communist past to a gathering in Brussels to initiate a declaration condemning communism at a pan-European level. The magazine Revista 22 comments: “Once it reaches [...]

LETTER OF INFORMATION AND INVITATION Russian Institute for Cultural Research Embassy of the Republic of Poland in Moscow Polish Cultural Center in Moscow Polish Academy of Sciences Permanent Representation to the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow Pedagogical State University Pedagogical University of Cracow of a name the Commission of National Education Institute for the Humanities [...]

Commemorating the 60th anniversary of Soviet deportations in Estonia segnalato da Euro-topics, 25-03-2009 The daily Postimees commemorates the 60th anniversary of the Soviet deportation of tens of thousands of Estonians, Lavtians and Lithuanians to Siberia: “Just imagine how your morning would look if this were 1949 and not 2009. You’re awakened by a knock at [...]

Euro-topics – MAIN FOCUS European Press Review of 26/03/2009 After the government collapse in Prague After the no confidence vote against the government of Mirek Topolánek in Prague the European press voices concern for the future of the EU, which is currently led by the Czech Republic. The crisis shows how national conflicts can unsettle [...]

RASSEGNA ITALIANA – di Ada Pagliarulo, Paolo Martini A poche ore dalla decisione del premier ungherese Gyursany di lasciare il governo, arriva la notizia della sfiducia al premier ceco Topolanek. L’opposizione punta alle elezioni anticipate. La mozione del Partito socialdemocratico e di quello Comunista criticava la gestione della crisi economica. Il rischio ora, sottolineano i [...]

Prezydent: “To był przełom – Dzień przystąpienia Polski do NATO był dla naszego kraju przełomem” – podkreślił prezydent Lech Kaczyński. – “Był drugim przełomem po roku 1989″ – mówił. Polska została członkiem NATO 12 marca 1999 wraz z Czechami i Węgrami. Tego dnia w Independence w stanie Missouri oficjalnie przyjęto trzy byłe państwa bloku wschodniego [...]

una traccia: VEDI: Rally In Tbilisi – Leaders from Georgia, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania speaking to thousands gathered in the Georgian capital on August 12. Video of leaders from Georgia, Poland, Ukraine, Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania speaking to thousands gathered in the Georgian capital on August 12.Play (Reuters video), 8/13/2008 pdf

Armenia: The Enemy of My Friend by Gayane Abrahamyan, TRANSITIONS ONLINE, 11 September 2008 Isolated Armenia plays a careful diplomatic dance with Georgia and Russia. From EurasiaNet. YEREVAN | The Georgia-Russia war has placed Armenia in a bind. Officials in Yerevan are feeling pressure to take sides, either supporting their country’s strategic partner, Russia, or its neighbor, [...]

Has Ukraine’s Orange Coalition Reached Point Of No Return? by Jan Maksymiuk, Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, September 04, 2008 In announcing the collapse of the coalition government formed by the Yulia Tymoshenko Bloc and the Our Ukraine-People’s Self-Defense bloc, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko accused his Orange Revolution ally of joining forces with rival parties, while some [...]

TRANSITIONS ONLINE: Our Take: Poland Was Right by TOL, 12 September 2008 T The need is greater than ever for the EU to embrace Warsaw’s Eastern Partnership.  — Georgia’s military is a wreck, its economic locomotive derailed, and even a drunken gambler would think twice before wagering on its political future. In Ukraine, the unhappy marriage between [...]

Parlamento Europeo: Sessione plenaria del 22-25 settembre 2008 Il Parlamento chiederà la commemorazione delle vittime dei crimini stalinisti e nazisti Il 23 agosto, giorno della firma del patto Molotov-Ribbentrop, andrebbe proclamato "Giornata europea di commemorazione delle vittime dei crimini dello stalinismo e del nazismo". Lo chiedono i deputati per preservare la memoria delle vittime delle [...]

Poland’s governing coalition disagrees over new media bill September 23rd, 2008 – 13:47 UTC by Andy Sennitt The Polish Civic Platform’s (PO) coalition ally, the Polish Peasants’ Party (PSL), has voiced “some reservations” over the proposed new media reform bill.  Deputy Speaker of the Lower House Jaroslaw Kalinowski (PSL) has said that his party’s reservations are in [...]

Elections législatives Les Biélorusses se sont rendus aux urnes le 28 septembre pour élire leurs députés ; la participation s’est élevée à 75,3%. Selon la présidente de la Commission électorale centrale (CEC), Lidia Ermochina, les 110 députés ont été élus au 1er tour. Pas un seul candidat de l’opposition n’a été élu. L’opposition a d’ores [...]

Why we must learn to say No to Russia by Vytautas Landsbergis, Europe’s wold,  Summer 2008 Vytautas Landsbergis, Lithuania‘s first President after the country quit the Soviet Union, explains why he is convinced that Russia is a threat to Western democracies, and warns of Russia‘s ambitions to use its energy resources as a tool in international [...]

Dal Blog di Edward Lucas, Oct 2nd 2008, From Economist.com, Thursday, October 02, 2008 Europe View 101 Pipelines and pyramids The world’s headache becomes eastern Europe’s migraine — WHAT does the collapse of the pyramid scheme formerly known as the western financial system mean for the ex-communist world? The short-term answer is bad, and the [...]

… Czechs are somewhat embarrassed that Topolanek applied the Munich comparison to Russia’s actions in Georgia. Although Czechs have had their own negative experiences with Russia, they do not equate Russia with Nazi Germany. Rather, they share the opinion of French presidential adviser Alain Lamassoure, who told the newspaper "Hospodarske noviny": "[The Russians] still behave [...]

18 years of German unity Frankfurter Rundschau – Germany (02/10/2008) segnalato da Euro-topics On October 3 Germany celebrates the 18th anniversary of its reunification. "The great miracle of German unity is a thing of the past," writes Bernhard Honnigfort in the German daily Frankfurter Rundschau. "The little GDR dictatorship is falling into oblivion and the gaps [...]

Russie: Un point final à l’affaire de Katyn ? Par Michèle Kahn (source : Korrespondent.net), Regard sur l’Est, 01/10/2008 Le 30 septembre, le Tribunal de la région militaire de Moscou a enjoint le Parquet militaire central de Russie de remettre aux familles des officiers polonais exécutés par le NKVD dans la forêt de Katyn (région [...]

"Poland, that is to say, nowhere" Alfred Jarry, Ubu Roi Klaus Nellen Reinventing Europe Eurozine has expanded the scope for bringing together intellectuals from eastern and western Europe – a concern as relevant today as it was directly after 1989, writes Transit managing editor Klaus Nellen. After the Yalta Conference, eastern European countries were subsumed [...]

Fonte:da Denis Cosgrove, Helen Sooväli, Geography is everywhere, An interview with Denis Cosgrove … Geography was the creation of the German universities in the mid-nineteenth century and reached its peak in the 1920s and 1930s, when certain European and Latin-American countries, in fact most of the world, was competing on imperial realms. For these countries [...]

Polish Radio External Service begins longwave broadcasting July 4th, 2008 – 11:54 UTC by Andy Sennitt From July 1, Polish Radio External Service has started broadcasting on 198 kHz longwave. The 198 LW frequency is shared with Polish Radio Parliament, which will continue to broadcast when parliament is in session. At all other times Polish [...]

Consequences of the German financial crisis for economic relations with Poland Rafał Żmijewski, co-operation Marta Z, OSW – The expected economic downturn in Germany, which has been aggravated by the financial crisis, will cause a slowdown of economic growth in Poland. However, considering the stable foundations of the Polish economy and its rapid growth over past [...]

Twelve wise men to rethink Europe[fr][de]  EurActiv.com, Published: Tuesday 14 October 2008    Details of the composition of a planned but somewhat controversial reflection group in charge of anticipating long-term challenges to the Union are starting to emerge. It now appears that the nine wise men will in fact be twelve, as the chairman of the Group [...]

The freedom of historical debate is under attack by the memory police Timothy Garton Ash, The Guardian, Thursday October 16 2008 Well-intentioned laws that prescribe how we remember terrible events are foolish, unworkable and counter-productive Among the ways in which freedom is being chipped away in Europe, one of the less obvious is the legislation [...]

Respekt – Czech Republic, Václav Havel on the Kundera affair In an opinion piece published in Respekt magazine, former Czech President Václav Havel writes about the Kundera affair. Working together with the Prague Institute for the Study of Totalitariansm Respekt magazine had accused the Czech-born writer Milan Kundera, who lives in Paris, of having denounced [...]

Posted by Edward Lucas, Oct 23rd 2008, From The Economist print edition three-page briefing on CEE economics Eastern Europe. Who’s next? The economies of eastern Europe face stormy times, even if Western banks hold their nerve. The political fallout may be even worse WILL an ex-communist country be the next Iceland? The dramatic collapse of [...]

Fonte: (Obama vincitore in blu, McCain in rosso) ————– Barack Obama ha offerto al suo vecchio amico e alleato di Chicago Rahm Emanuel il posto di capo staff della Casa Bianca. Rahm Emanuel, kongresmen z Chicago znany z częstego zabierania głosu w polskich sprawach, został poproszony przez Baracka Obamę o pokierowanie jego administracją – pisze [...]

Moscow takes steps to resolve the Karabakh conflict Wojciech Górecki, East Week, 36 (145), 5 november 2008 On 2 November, Dmitry Medvedev, Ilham Aliyev and Serzh Sargsyan, the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia respectively, signed a declaration concerning the resolution of the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Although its provisions are very general, the declaration is the [...]

Anybody who has spent any time in Poland will be aware of the nation\’s devotion to the past. Poland Monthly Review, Editor’s Note From the numerous war memorials and plaques in Warsaw to the fresh flowers which frequently decorate them it’s impossible to forget about the Second World War. In fact you may find it [...]

Kłopotliwa niepodległość Andrzej Nowak, Rzeczpospolita 07-11-2008 Polska po 1918 roku była widomym znakiem niezgody na to, że mniejsze, „nowe”, państwa mogą być tylko pionkami w grze prowadzonej przez większych, uznanych w tradycyjnym koncercie mocarstw graczy. Burzyła porządek. I zapłaciła za to. „Kiedy prawdziwie Polacy powstaną, / To składek zbierać nie będą narody, / Lecz ogłupieją… [...] [...]

La Germania deve risarcire le vittime delle stragi naziste? – Natalino Ronzitti La magistratura, compresa quella militare, ha riaperto i dossier sulle stragi perpetrate dai soldati della Wermacht dopo l’8 settembre 1943 e le sentenze, ormai numerose, hanno sollevato un dibattito tra gli storici per determinare se sia giusto porre di nuovo sul tappeto episodi [...]

Energie A l’occasion de la rencontre des Premiers ministres du groupe de Visegrad (Hongrie, Pologne, Slovaquie, République tchèque) et ceux des trois pays baltes (Estonie, Lituanie, Lettonie), réunis le 5 novembre à Varsovie, Donald Tusk, le Premier ministre polonais, a indiqué que ces pays souhaiteraient inclure la sécurité énergétique dans la stratégie de l’Union européenne [...]

Euro-topics. European Press Review of 12/11/2008 MAIN FOCUS. Commemorating World War I On November 11 people all over Europe commemorated the end of the First World War 90 years ago. Europe’s press discusses the significance of these commemorations from different perspectives. Le Soir – Belgium. The daily Le Soir welcomes the fact that the general [...]

"ESTONIANS OUT OF SIBERIA—SOVIETS OUT OF ESTONIA". Amid the protests against the imposition of martial law in Poland in 1981, that slogan—on a banner carried by two elderly émigrés outside the Polish embassy in London—stood out as seemingly the most lost of all lost causes…. Citato da Edward Lucas pdf

Un grande evento in arrivo nell’agenda europea  La Biblioteca digitale Europeana "apre gli scaffali" a tutti! Mai sognato di accedere a testi rari ed antichi, archiviati tra gli scaffali delle biblioteche nazionali e quasi sempre inaccessibili al pubblico? Mai desiderato di prendere in prestito la copia di un vecchio libro che non si trova più in [...]