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Warszawski, Dawid
5 articles of this author have been cited in the European Press Review so far.
German prize for Putin is cynical
Russian Premier Vladimir Putin is to receive the Quadriga prize, which Germany awards to exemplary personalities. Those who have won the prize in the past include Václav Havel, Mikhail Gorbachev and Helmut Kohl. The reason given for awarding the prize to Putin makes the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza especially angry: "On the one hand Putin is indeed 'predictable' and 'determined'. That is demonstrated by the execution in prison of the businessman Sergei Magnitski, the shooting of the journalist Anna Politkovskaya and so many others. 'But would it be better if Russia were being led by some new Yeltsin who is so unpredictable that the country once again sinks into chaos?' That's what those who support the awarding of the Quadriga prize to Putin imply. All the more so because the predictable and determined Putin brings the Germans economic benefits [by supplying Germany with gas]."
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More from the press review on the subject » International Relations, » Germany, » Russia
Apology a parliamentary masterpiece
The narrow result of the vote in the Serb parliament in favour of admitting guilt for the Srebrenica massacre shows that the country has done an excellent job of drawing closer to the EU while defending its own domestic policy interests, the liberal daily Gazeta Wyborcza writes: "After 13 hours of lively debate, 126 [sic] parliamentarians voted in favour of the resolution: one vote more than the required minimum. This result is a masterpiece of parliamentary strategising. It shows the EU - for the benefit of which the resolution was mainly made - that Serbia has indeed changed. At the same time it shows the Serbian people that everything remains as it was. The supporters of the resolution point out that the International Criminal Tribunal in The Hague has conceded that the Serbs did not carry out the massacre (it was the Bosnian Serbs who did it), but rather failed to prevent it even though they could have."
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More from the press review on the subject » Security Policy / Crises / War, » Serbia
Solidarity with persecuted homosexuals
A recently erected monument which stands close to Berlin's Holocaust memorial commemorates the homosexuals persecuted and murdered by the Nazi regime. Jewish columnist David Warszavski calls for solidarity with gay and lesbian victims but criticises the film which forms part of the memorial. "The monument for the murdered gays will incite protests, among other things because of the bad idea from an artistic point of view of incorporating a video screen into the monument which displays a film of two men locked in a passionate kiss. It will also provoke protests from people who do not like gays or regard them as perverts. Unfortunately, such views are common also among conservative Roma or Jews - but I can assure you that there will be no protests by Jews or Roma against the Berlin monument. History forced the Roma and Jews to look beyond their prejudices and share in the fate of homosexuals: one cannot choose one's sexual orientation, just as one does not choose one's forbears. ... Those who were murdered because of their origins know the price to be paid for refusing solidarity - because they themselves were once refused solidarity."
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More from the press review on the subject » Exhibitions / Museums, » Minorities, » History, » Germany
The Pope and Turkey's EU aspirations
Dawid Warszawski doubts that the Pope really supports Turkey's joining the EU, as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed after his conversation with Benedict XVI in Ankara. Warszawski writes: "Until now, there has been no official confirmation from the Vatican. If it were true, this would be a tremendous success for Turkey. The Pope would then find himself in a very difficult situation vis-à-vis the Greek Orthodox Church, which is very sceptical about Turkish membership. The ecumenical goal would have been questionable, as would be the tenability of the papal view: as Cardinal, he opposed Turkish membership in the EU."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » Religion, » Weltanschauung, » Turkey
The EU cancels talks with Serbia-Montenegro
According to columnist Dawid Warszawski, the Milosevic establishment is not at all worried by the cancellation of the association talks. "A free Mladic is a genuine obstacle to Serbia's European aspirations – and perhaps this is precisely why the Serb military doesn't want to hand him over. Part of Milosevic's establishment regards the EU as a threat to the Serbian national identity, and perhaps even to Serbian statehood. For them, not only the prospect of handing over Ratko Mladic, but also the beginning of membership talks is something bad. If this is the case, the general can sleep peacefully. And in view of the growing aversion within the EU towards further enlargement, Mladic and his protectors may yet be able to cause as much damage to their country as the recently deceased dictator did."
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More from the press review on the subject » EU enlargement, » Domestic Policy, » Serbia
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