Volume 54, Number 11 · June 28, 2007
The Polish Witch-Hunt
By Adam Michnik, Translated from the Polish by Irena Grudzinska Gross, Olga Amsterdamska
Recently, the Polish government attempted to strip Bronisław Geremek of his seat in the European Parliament, to which he had been elected in 2004. The Parliament immediately voted to condemn the Polish government's action. One of Poland's most distinguished public figures, Geremek was a leader of Solidarity and a former political prisoner of the Communist regime. As foreign minister from 1997 to 2000, he was responsible for Poland's accession to NATO. The Polish government tried to have him dismissed because Geremek had refused to sign a declaration that he had not been a secret police agent during the Communist years.
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