Poland and the EU celebrated the 25th anniversary of the anti-communist Solidarity movement on Tuesday (30 August), but Warsaw and Europe face deep political divisions despite the rhetoric of goodwill.
The series of strikes by Gdansk shipyard workers in 1980 under the Solidarity trade union banner began a chain of events that led to the collapse of the Soviet empire and the fall of the Berlin wall in 1989.
Lech Walesa, the original leader of the Solidarity group, put the Polish ...
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Andrew Rettman is EUobserver's foreign editor, writing about foreign and security issues since 2005. He is Polish, but grew up in the UK, and lives in Brussels. He has also written for The Guardian, The Times of London, and Intelligence Online.