Will democracy take root and grow on new soils? The question is pressing as several authoritarian regimes have fallen over the last couple of years – and as the yearning for freedom increasingly ...

Twenty five years ago, in April 1989, roundtable negotiations between the government and the opposition took place in Warsaw. They turned out to be a kind of a prologue for the peaceful dismantling of ...

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