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Almost a year and a half after the accession of ten new Member States, eight of which were on the other side of the Iron Curtain, the 25th anniversary celebrations of the creation of the Solidarity union have a special significance.
This was a feat achieved by brave men, by men of freedom. It was also a feat of a time that was marked by the politics of courage, by world leaders with vision and by a Pope – who should not be overlooked – with a genuine determination to free the human race.
As Lech Walesa has said in recent interviews, heroic though that movement was – and indeed it was – we could not have imagined that 25 years later we would be sitting here alongside MEPs from eight – or rather ten since yesterday – of the countries that had been dominated by the Soviet Empire.
Let us therefore remember this date to honour the heroes of Solidarity and Poland, and to commemorate the starting point of the process of freeing a large section of Europe that was ‘under occupation’."@en1
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