A European initiative to fund pro-democracy groups was introduced to Polish activists this week by its new director, Poland’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Jerzy Pomianowski (left), UPI reports:
Pomianowski, appointed by the European Union last month to lead the …
A senior Polish diplomat will head the new European Endowment for Democracy (EED), EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton said yesterday.
The appointment of Jerzy Pomianowski (right), Poland’s undersecretary of state for foreign affairs, as the group’s executive director, was …
Thirty years after Ronald Reagan used his Westminster address to launch a “crusade” to “foster the infrastructure of democracy” around the world, some of the most ominous challenges are now found in the established democracies, says a leading analyst.
Dante …
The experience of post-communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe carries a vital lesson for the reformers of the Arab Spring, writes Anna Nadgrodkiewicz. Citizens need bread as well as freedom, so democrats must convert revolutionary zeal into concrete …
When people rise up today in Libya or Syria, the experience of Poland’s Solidarity is somewhere in the back of their minds, says Carl Gershman, addressing the opening of a Woodrow Wilson Center exhibit on The Phenomenon of Solidarity: Pictures …
The Wilson Center’s Cold War International History Project, in cooperation with the Institute of National Remembrance in Poland, presents a photo exhibition on:
The Phenomenon of Solidarity: Pictures from the History of Poland, 1980-1981
Photo Exhibition Commemorating the 30th Anniversary …