Bronislaw Geremek defies the Polish government

"If I am deprived of my European seat, I will go home to fight in Poland", explains Bronislaw Geremek in an interview conducted by Ivo Caizzi, the Milanese daily's special Brussels' correspondent. "Today I have chosen civil disobedience, not so much for political motives as to defend fundamental moral values and to come help all the Polish people who are being humiliated by these unacceptable systems. I have fought all my life and spent a long time in prison to defend these moral values and the principles of democracy. Nobody can put my past into question and I cannot silently accept the humiliations imposed by the government on citizens who cannot oppose it. We are moving towards the end of the freedom of the press and the autonomy of information if a minister of Truth can decide who is honest and who isn't, who can do a certain job and who can't ... . I am realising that my country has become an isolated case set apart from the rest of Europe".

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