Bronislaw Geremek defies the Polish government

"Today, as a member of European Parliament, [Geremek] is pitching his 'J'accuse' recrimination like, all things considered, Zola did in the Dreyfus affair. For it is in the name of the same values of justice and human dignity that he is opposing the law on decommunisation, which, absurd on a judicial level and humiliating on a moral level, has provoked a kind of cold war between the Kaczynski brother regime and a good part of the intellectual and academic elite of their country", writes Pol Mathil. " 'Lustration' is intended to ... settle the twins' old scores not only with former agents [of the communist secret services] but also with that part of the former opposition which, when they obtained power with Walesa, had blocked their path to power, at the birth of democracy in Poland. An attempt to deprive Geremek of his position in the European Parliament, in contempt of ballot results and common sense, would be unworthy of a democratic government and of a big country."

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