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Tribute to the former Polish foreign minister, adviser to Lech Walesa and EU parliamentarian. The convinced European was killed in a car accident in Poland on 13 July. Obituary/ archive
He stood on the barricades of Paris and Prague in 1968 and later produced the Charter 77 civic initiative. The man who once smoked cigarettes in prison with former president Václav Havel looks back over his sixty-six years, but also to Europe and the future
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45 years of Communism, 10 years of Milosevic. The current 'UNMIKISTAN' that is Kosovo has a lively, bumping, coffee-city (Pristinali are mental for macchiatos) for a capital. There are pungent social stains on everyday life - daily electricity cuts, a lack of heating, ditches on streets everywhere and an irritation of ...