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Belarus, culture and democracy.
In: CIS| EU Eastern Dimension
18 Jun 2010While the country is far from being a democracy, its cultural scene is beginning to instigate change.
Article – Deutsche Welle.
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Father Jerzy Popiełuszko beatified.
In: History Culture| Poland| Religion
8 Jun 2010 Father Jerzy Popiełuszko was beatified during an open-air Mass held in Piłsudski Square. Close to 150,000 faithful flooded into Warsaw for the ceremony. Popiełuszko’s 100-year-old mother Marianna Popiełuszko and his siblings attended the services, along with Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Jerzy Buzek, the head of the European Parliament.
Pope Benedict XVI, on a [...]
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Russia-EU, Partnership for modernization.
In: EU Eastern Dimension| Euro-Integration| International Policy
2 Jun 2010 At the summit held in the Russian city of Rostov-on-Don Presidents Medvedev and Van Rompuy signed a joint declaration on the modernization partnership, which is supposed to give Russia easier access to Western know-how and technology while committing the country to more democratic reforms and fighting corruption.
The EU leader cautioned that the program needed political [...]
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Joining the Euro still a dream for many
24 May 2010The Central and Eastern Europe continues to believe in the euro, despite the many problems in recent months, particularly for the crisis in Greece. Joining the single currency remains a goal of many countries in the area, but the eurozone must set its own house in order first. According to a study by the Financial [...]
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The EU does not forget Ukraine. In the same time as Russian President Medvedev was on an official visit to Kiev the European Parliament has approved a EUR 500 million loan to Ukraine to help it overcome the financial crisis.
The European Parliament speaker Jerzy Buzek welcomed the decision of the European Parliament to support Ukraine [...]
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A panel of experts met in Brussels to begin to lay the foundation for the future NATO Strategic Concept to be approved at Lisbon’s summit in November. A document has been issued at the end of the work.
The Alliance now faces a variety of “new threats from non-state actors”, including terrorism, cyber-crime, and maritime piracy. [...]
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Poland. The new Primate with a long experience.
12 May 2010 On May 10th, Benedict XVI appointed Archbishop Jozef Kowalczyk, 71, as the archbishop of Gniezno and primate of Poland. He succeeds Archbishop Henryk Muszynski, who presented his resignation for reasons of age. Archbishop Kowalczyk had been serving as the apostolic nuncio to Poland since 1989. He witnessed firsthand the radical changes in his motherland.
Interview – [...]
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Poland. The presidential race is officially on.
In: Euro-Integration| Poland
7 May 2010 There’s little uncertainty in these early presidential elections. Civic Platform’s Bronislaw Komorowski is the clear favourite front-runner and Jaroslaw Kaczynski, candidate for Law and Justice, is the best outsider. At the beginning of the presidential race the main interrogative is whether the speaker of the Sejm (Parliament) might win without a risky run-off.
Current surveys give [...]
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Belarus. Lukashenko: The West didn’t want better ties with us.
In: CIS| EU Eastern Dimension| Russia
6 May 2010The West and Russia.
Key excerpts from the interview.
“Everyone is waiting for next year’s presidential elections… West has halted all movement and is waiting for them… We expected more…The West doesn’t like our course and doesn’t like the current president — that’s all there is to it. Let’s be honest. But the president is elected by [...]
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Katyn. The possible reasons for the massacre.
In: History Culture| Poland| Russia
29 Apr 2010Why? No one has ever tried to understand the reasons for such as terrible decision taken by the Soviet authorities. The Russian historian, Natalia Lededeva, frames the tragedy of Katyn in the historical context of the time and recounts how the former superpower has begun to discover the awful truth.
Article. Ria Novosti, Russia. April 2010.
The [...]
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