The concept of a free city in Europe may not be new – the Baltic Sea port of Danzig (now Gdansk) was semi-autonomous between the two world wars, while Fiume (now Rijeka) was once administered separately from both Hungary and Croatia-Slavonia – but Brčko has given the idea new life.
Poland is hoping for German support for its own historical project, a second world war museum in Gdansk.
He seemed exhausted with politics, the more so since he was not assured of re-election as his own party's chairman.He will stay on as party chairman until the Freedom Union's conference in December, when delegates will choose between two possible successors: Bronislaw Geremek, a former foreign minister, and Donald Tusk, a bright young senator from Gdansk.
His formative years were the long bleak decades of Poland's communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provincial Gdansk.
Among other offences, Milan and Sredoje Lukic, who are cousins, burned alive Muslim women and children during the Bosnian war in 1992-95.The European Comadesion made a concession by approving a large state-aid programme for Poland's shipyard in Gdansk.
The Solidarity movement established itself under Wałesa's leadership during the Gdansk shipyard strikes in the summer of 1980.
The Krakow Opera also has a new building, as do the Szczecin Philharmonic, the Academy of Music in Poznan and the Polish Baltic Frédéric Chopin Philharmonic in Gdansk".We used to play in a really uncomfortable hall: poor place, poor sound," says Ewa Strusinska, the music director and principal conductor of the Szczecin Philharmonic.
Gdansk has spent the past 20 years playing politics rather than building ships.
CLAIMS that Russian interests tried to bribe a Polish government minister in a failed bid to buy the Gdansk oil refinery, first made in Polish newspapers and now being pursued by a parliamentary commission in Warsaw, are rocking Poland's business and political worlds.
Unrest in the Gdansk shipyard helped drag Warsaw 7.7% lower.In this section The final hurry The world's most thankless job Aztecs 1, Christians 0 The once and future boom Thugs brought to book Hands in the till Bring back Dem Bums A King's beginnings Rudy Giuliani's middle way Reprints.
Troops under his command opened fire on protesting Polish workers at the Lenin shipyard in Gdansk in 1970.On December 13th 1981, Jaruzelski proclaimed martial law and sent the military into the streets to destroy Solidarity.
