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AP Interview: Walesa says reforms going too slowly

TMCnet, 8 hours 13 minutes ago / Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its knees across Eastern Europe, Poland is dragging its feet on changes it needs to help it catch up with its western European neighbors.

Walesa shuns Solidarity 30th anniversary sessions

TMCnet, Sep 02, 2010 / Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned several of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state.

AP Interview: Walesa says reforms going too slowly

Santa Maria Times - Santa Maria CA, Aug 31, 2010 / Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic reforms that brought communism to its knees across Eastern Europe, Poland is dragging its feet on changes it needs to help it catch up with its western European neighbors.

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Tulsa World - Tulsa OK, Aug 31, 2010 / Solidarity founder Lech Walesa shunned several of the movement's 30th anniversary sessions Monday, saying he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish trade union's current state.

Walesa and PM Tusk lay wreath at Solidarity monument

TheNews.pl - Poland, Aug 29, 2010 / Prime Minister Donald Tusk, accompanied by former president and Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, laid flowers at the Monument to the Fallen Shipyard Worker in Gdansk on Sunday, as part of the 30 year anniversary celebrations of the historic 1980 August Agreements.

- Walesa critical of post-Cold War politics

Taipei Times, Aug 28, 2010 / Three decades after Polish trade union Solidarity rocked the Soviet bloc, the world has yet to come to terms with the end of the Cold War, the movement's iconic founder Lech Walesa says.

Walesa boycotts Solidarity celebrations

TheNews.pl - Poland, Aug 27, 2010 / Former president and founder of the Solidarity trade union, Lech Walesa has pulled out of the 30th anniversary celebrations in the north-western port of Szczecin, commemorating the signing of the August Agreements.

No Europe without Turkey: Walesa

EUbusiness - UK, Aug 18, 2010 / Turkey must be admitted to the European Union, Poland's former president and Nobel laureate Lech Walesa insisted on Wednesday.

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Lech Wałęsa ( ; born 29 September 1943) is a Polish politician, trade-union organizer, and human-rights activist.

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AP Interview: Walesa says reforms going too slowly

AP  posted:  Tuesday 08/31/10 04:16 PM EDT
GDANSK, Poland -Solidarity founder and former Polish President Lech Walesa said Tuesday that 30 years after his trade union movement paved the way for massive democratic

Walesa to shun Solidarity 30th anniversary session

AP  posted:  Monday 08/30/10 10:55 AM EDT
WARSAW, Poland -Solidarity founder Lech Walesa says he will not attend the movement's 30th anniversary session because he is tired and disillusioned with the Polish group

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