Poland Needs Help to Remain Strong
By John O'Sullivan
Posted: Friday, September 2, 2005
Today's Poland is prosperous and stable. But that is not the normal condition of Poland -- and it won't persist unless Poland, Europe and America cooperate to keep it that way.   [Read More]

Conferences and Exhibitions to Mark Solidarity Anniversary
Posted: Tuesday, August 16, 2005
The managing director of the New Atlantic Initiative Radek Sikorski believes that the experience of the Solidarity trade union can build up confidence among opposition activists in undemocratic countries. This will be the aim of the Solidarity 25 Years Later - Lessons in Freedom Struggle conference to be held in Gdansk on Aug.30.  [Read More]

Defense Reform in Europe
The Case of Poland
By Radek Sikorski
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The United States should help its allies reform their military budgets and capabilities.  [Read More]

Poland to Host Meeting of World Dissidents to Mark 25 Years of Solidarity
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Dissidents from around the world will hold a conference this month in the northern Polish city of Gdansk as part of events to mark the 25th anniversary of the birth of Solidarity, the meeting's organisers said Tuesday.  [Read More]

Iran Move Questions EU Tactics
By Gareth Harding
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
The U.S. administration might be skeptical about the chances of signing a deal with the mullahs and frustrated about the slow pace of talks between Tehran and Brussels, but -- for the moment at least -- the EU talkathon is the only show in town.  [Read More]

'Italy Despairs of Euro' - In Normal Times, It Would Be Front Page News
By Niall Ferguson
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
But if the delightful things about Italy really are to remain unchanged, something more than monetary musical chairs is now needed. To change currency once in the space of six years is unfortunate. To do so twice would look like negligenza.   [Read More]

Обострение отношений между Беларусью и Польшей. Мнение эксперта
By Alex Campbell
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Русская служба «Голоса Америки» попросила Радека Сикорского прокомментировать новое обострение отношений между Беларусью и Польшей, приведшее к взаимной высылке дипломатов двух стран и обмену резкими заявлениями с обеих сторон, и изложить свое видение причин, приведших к появлению очага напряженности на новой восточной границе Евросоюза.  [Read More]

Обострение отношений между Беларусью и Польшей. Мнение эксперта
Posted: Wednesday, August 10, 2005
Русская служба «Голоса Америки» попросила Радека Сикорского прокомментировать новое обострение отношений между Беларусью и Польшей, приведшее к взаимной высылке дипломатов двух стран и обмену резкими заявлениями с обеих сторон, и изложить свое видение причин, приведших к появлению очага напряженности на новой восточной границе Евросоюза.  [Read More]

The Summer of Solidarity
Remembering the First Free Labor Union in the Communist World
By Arch Puddington
Posted: Wednesday, August 3, 2005
Solidarity's success was due to the courage, persistence, and sacrifice of the Polish people, and to the discipline of the Solidarity leadership.  Despite the regime's policy of provocations, duplicity, and repression--Poland, remember, was under martial law for much of the 1980s--Solidarity eschewed violence and shunned those who advocated street fighting and sabotage.  [Read More]

Preempting Politics In Russia
By Masha Lipman
Posted: Tuesday, July 26, 2005
Putin's elite has reduced all politics to tricks and schemes, and it holds the public in deep contempt. The public responds in kind: In a recent poll 83 percent said that government power in Russia is controlled by a narrow circle of individuals unaccountable to the people.  [Read More]