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Chinese dream
American dream is based on the assumption that any rogue with a little ingenuity and a holy pile of luck can become a millionaire. Chinese dream (in the West) means that you don’t have to be a millionaire to live like one. Celebrated by the Prime Minister Tusk “strategic partnership” between Poland and China must [...]
Offside!
The Prime Minister said that it was an own goal. This is how he described Jaroslaw’s Kaczynski’s calling for boycotting the Ukrainian part of Euro 2012. photo: Sean MacEntee The Prime Minister has an incomparably greater knowledge of the principles of “kicking the ball” than the chairman of the Law and Justice party does. Yet [...]
The Russian engage not only in protests
According to the majority of observers, the Russian no longer consent to the social contract offered by Vladimir Putin. The citizens protest against the theory that “they will make a living thanks to political loyalty or passiveness”. What caused this change? What social activities, which have begun last Autumn, may result in? It is worth [...]
Liberte! invites to 2012 Wrocław Global Forum
Liberte! invites all interested to 2012 Wrocław Global Forum, over which it took media patronage. From May 31 – June 2, the 2012 Wroclaw Global Forum will bring together important decision-makers and business leaders from the United States and Europe to discuss Central Europe’s role as a critical partner in US efforts to promote political, [...]
Reading Mazowiecki’s expose twenty years later
On August 24, 1989 Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the first Prime Minister of non-communist Poland, gave a visionary expose. Going back to that text today – so fresh, so prognostic and politically modern – it is hard to believe that during that time the Warsaw Pact still existed, that the Iron Curtain subsisted, the army of the [...]
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What kind of social policy Donald Tusk is going to pursue? The social politicy in exposé was presented mainly in the context of budget cuts, but not only. Its evident idea was based on saving up at the cost of the poorest people, according to one of the leaders belonging to the opposition party called [...]
Cairo-Warsaw. Common issue?
Throughout the years, Western countries have been continuously collaborating with torturers of Arabic nations, thus separating values from economic interest and betraying their own ideals. And all that in the name of mercantilism. Such logic is not, and never will be, beneficial for Poland, because our geopolitical location and borders with still unstable East requires [...]
A ruling class should consist of intellectuals – interview with Tadeusz Mazowiecki
Liberte: You began your career as a journalist and a publicist in 1949. Why did you decide to take part in public life? What was the reason behind your choice? Tadeusz Mazowiecki: In my opinion, it is hard to find any particular reason in this case. We had to accustom ourselves to a new situation [...]
France – elegant or not that elegant country?
Last year, a dispute over a cross at Presidential Palace marked the period of a holiday heat wave in Poland, pushing aside such political ‘trivialities’ like the Perennial State Finances Plan or the completion of operations of gambling commission. In order not to develop a complex or to get frustrated by how things are in [...]
One month after the day P.
Now when certain time has passed since the day P. – the day of elections of Putin – we can reflect on our future a little bit. It is still not totally clear but some evaluation can be already made. Elections were not fair from the very beginning. Only “trusted” candidates with no chances for [...]
