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Bronislaw Geremek defies the Polish government

The European Member of Parliament Bronislaw Geremek may have his European mandate taken away from him because he has refused to obey the 'lustration' law. He considers that this legislation recently adopted by the Polish government is a threat to the freedom of individuals. His stance is approved by the main political leaders of the European Parliament.

Corriere della Sera - Italia

"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". (26/04/2007)

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Libération - Francia

Maja Zoltowska, correspondent for the daily in Poland, denounces the lustration law as a "Warsaw-style purge", which is obliging several hundreds of thousands of people to make written declarations of whether or not they collaborated with the former communist police. "The law has given rise to much criticism in Poland, but Bronislaw Gemerek, an emblematic figure of Solidarity, a renowned medieval historian and former Foreign Minister, aged 75, is the only member of Parliament to have said 'no'. ... In terms of the law, a simple refusal entails the loss of all public responsibilities. The Polish political class reacted bitterly yesterday to Bronislaw Geremek's gesture. Geremek's behaviour 'is not helping Poland', said the Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. The reaction of the members of European Parliament is a new slap in the face for a government that has turned 'decommunisation' into its war horse." (26/04/2007)

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Le Soir - Bélgica

"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." (26/04/2007)

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Rzeczpospolita - Polonia

Rafał Ziemkiewicz can't understand Bronislav Geremek's refusal to have his past investigated a second time, because Ziemkiewicz argues, this would not simply be a repetition of the proceeding in 2004: "The new lustration law defines the activities of former unofficial collaborators more precisely. Under the previous law you could have signed a formal obligation to write unofficial reports and have received payment for doing so, yet none of this was regarded as unofficial collaboration because a court would first have to prove that the denunciations in question had harmed somebody. The current lustration law distinguishes much more precisely between the many different forms of collaboration with the former secret police (SB), both in areas of intelligence and counter-intelligence. The old statement could be 'no', and the new one 'yes' and this wouldn't necessarily be a contradiction." (26/04/2007)

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