Democracy Digest » Poland http://www.demdigest.net/blog News and analysis on democracy assistance and promotion Tue, 21 May 2013 18:07:53 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Polish NGOs will help new EU endowment for democracy http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/polish-ngos-will-help-new-eu-endowment-for-democracy/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/polish-ngos-will-help-new-eu-endowment-for-democracy/#comments Fri, 01 Mar 2013 00:25:03 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=19414 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/03/polish-ngos-will-help-new-eu-endowment-for-democracy/feed/ 0 Polish diplomat to head European Endowment for Democracy http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/polish-diplomat-to-head-european-endowment-for-democracy/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/polish-diplomat-to-head-european-endowment-for-democracy/#comments Thu, 10 Jan 2013 13:36:05 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=18575 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2013/01/polish-diplomat-to-head-european-endowment-for-democracy/feed/ 0 Time to ‘foster infrastructure’ of advanced democracies? http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/07/time-to-foster-infrastructure-of-advanced-democracies/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/07/time-to-foster-infrastructure-of-advanced-democracies/#comments Mon, 23 Jul 2012 08:00:39 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=16253 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2012/07/time-to-foster-infrastructure-of-advanced-democracies/feed/ 0 Post-communist lessons for Arab Spring – new democracies must deliver http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/post-communist-lessons-for-arab-spring-new-democracies-must-deliver/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/post-communist-lessons-for-arab-spring-new-democracies-must-deliver/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 20:11:32 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=11954 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/post-communist-lessons-for-arab-spring-new-democracies-must-deliver/feed/ 0 Polish Solidarity’s rich legacy, global impact http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/polish-solidaritys-rich-legacy-global-impact/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/polish-solidaritys-rich-legacy-global-impact/#comments Wed, 31 Aug 2011 17:34:19 +0000 Demdigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=11943 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 …

]]> http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/polish-solidaritys-rich-legacy-global-impact/feed/ 0 Event – The Phenomenon of Solidarity: Pictures from the History of Poland http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/the-phenomenon-of-solidarity-pictures-from-the-history-of-poland/ http://www.demdigest.net/blog/2011/08/the-phenomenon-of-solidarity-pictures-from-the-history-of-poland/#comments Fri, 26 Aug 2011 14:52:21 +0000 DemDigest http://www.demdigest.net/blog/?p=11913 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 …

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