Former Polish foreign minister and liberal MEP, Bronislaw Geremek was a key political figure in Poland, his country, and in Europe. A speaker at the very foreground of the negotiations between Poland and the European Union, he supported the idea of EU as “a community in its Constitution”, underlining “the need to revive the European spirit”. ELDR friends, deeply touched by the early loss, remember his civic engagement against the communist regime. In the 1980s, as one of the founders of the party Solidarnosc, he contributed to erode and finally topple the authority of the Communist party in Poland. Read more ...

The ELDR Party welcomes the first round of negotiations for a new EU-Russia agreement that will take place in Brussels, Belgium on Friday 4th July 2008. The talks seek to replace the current Partnership and Cooperation Agreement (PCA), which has been in place since 1997. Read more ...