Poland’s deep Catholic roots allowed one man to do more for his country than was humanly possible, writes Maria Graczyk, chief editor of EurActiv.pl, recalling the events that followed John Paul II’s election to the Vatican in 1979 and the Berlin Wall’s collapse ten years later.
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In the 1980s, Polish intellectuals were the first to see Germany’s reunification as the key to events triggering their country’s liberation from the Soviet bloc. The episode is recounted by US journalist Elizabeth Pond, who recently sought the recollections of Lech Wałęsa and Janusz Reiter of Poland’s Solidarność for EurActiv Germany.
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More Polish migrants wish to stay in the West in spite of the economic downturn than politicians care to admit, recent surveys have shown. Many are taking root in wealthier societies than back home, EurActiv Poland reports.
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The flaws in Eastern Europe’s model of growth have been exposed by the financial crisis and commodity-reliant countries like Russia must expand their industrial base to make them more resilient, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) said in an annual report on 2 November.
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US President Barack Obama sees Eastern Europe as a “Bush administration project” and is not conscious of the need to counter growing Russian influence there, Edward Lucas, who has been The Economist’s correspondent for Eastern Europe for over 20 years, told EurActiv Slovakia in an interview.
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