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Giziński, Jarosław
4 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
Jarosław Giziński on the sad trauma of the Polish opposition
Politics in Poland is still overshadowed by the air crash near Smolensk, the foreign affairs editor of Newsweek Polska Jarosław Giziński writes in the conservative weekly Heti Válasz: "Although the Smolensk plane crash happened more than three months ago, the trauma won't go away. ... The Law and Justice Party (PiS), which lost 'its president' Lech Kaczyński and numerous prominent politicians in the accident, can't get over the shock. All the more so because the twin brother of the former head of state lost to the candidate of the governing party Civic Platform Bronisław Komorowski in the presidential elections in July. In the eyes of the opposition PiS that is unjust, for wouldn't a victory for Jarosław Kaczyński have 'compensated' the nationalist-Catholic Right for their loss? ... Although there has so far been nothing to indicate that this was an assassination, conspiracy theories are circulating among the supporters of the former president. They are convinced that the victims of the plane crash, or rather the 'fallen' are really 'martyrs' murdered by their political opponents."
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Jarosław Giziński on shattered illusions in Eastern Europe
Since the political change 20 years ago many of the illusions once cherished in Central and Eastern Europe have been shattered, writes the head of the foreign policy department at Newsweek Polska Jarosław Giziński in the conservative weekly Heti Válasz: "What could we not have foreseen 20 years ago? Well, for example that we would be hit by an economic crisis without precedent in the past decades. But it is in the nature of crises that at some point they end. The bitter realisation that we are no longer a strategically important region weighs much more heavily. This has become all the more noticeable since US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton pressed the 'restart' button on US-Russian relations. It's becoming increasingly obvious that Central and Eastern Europe have slipped down into the second league. … Let's be honest: Our computations of 20 years ago whereby a change of system would suffice to secure us relative prosperity and security were more than naïve. We still have a long way to go."
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More from the press review on the subject » History, » Eastern Europe, » U.S.
Russia as a test case
According to Jaroslaw Gizinski, Russia will pose a major challenge to Germany's upcoming EU presidency. Moscow gives the big EU states preferential treatment while it tries to dictate its conditions to the smaller states. Gizinski calls on the EU not to allow Moscow to bring about a divide in the Union. "Moscow has repeatedly insisted on bilateral agreements on several issues or proposed the exclusion of new member states and singled out older members for preferential treatment. It is trying to find out who is willing to step out of line, so that it can make a deal with the stronger members and dictate its conditions to the others. There are many signs that the year 2007 will begin by putting solidarity within the EU to the test. This will be a test not just for the European Union as a whole but also for Germany as holder of the EU presidency and – as Vladimir Putin likes to put it – Russia's 'strategic' partner in the West."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » EU Policy, » Russia, » Europe
Hungarian election campaign with a Polish bogeyman
The Polish conservative Law and Justice party (PiS) won the Polish elections last autumn. This victory is now being used as a weapon by both Hungarian conservatives and the Hungarian Left in the run-up to their elections on April 9, writes Jaroslaw Gizinski, head of the foreign affairs department. "In accordance with the unwritten law of the Polish Express (the train stops in Warsaw, then in Budapest), Hungarian commentators have pointed out that the power shift which has taken place on the Danube in recent years ran parallel to the changes on the Vistula. The only difference now is that the Polish example, which only a few months ago was so favourable for the Hungarian Right, is now being used as a deterrent by the Left. The leftist media are conjuring up visions of the PiS bogeyman and depicting the PiS as ultra-conservative, xenophobic and anti-European."
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More from the press review on the subject » Domestic Policy, » Hungary
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