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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9733

5 September 2008
THE DAY IN POLITICS / (eu) ep/composition

04/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - Andrzej Wielowieyski, the former vice president of the Polish Senate and a figure from the Polish democratic opposition, replaced Bronislaw Geremek as an MEP (ALDE, Poland), who died in a car crash on 13 July last. Both of them acted as advisers to the strikers at the Gdansk shipyards in August 1980. Wielowieyski was also appointed the director of experts for the Solidarnosc union. In 1989, as an opposition representative, he took part in the Round Table talks on...

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