Round Table

President marks 30th anniversary of talks that ended communism

Duda underscored that a consequence of the events of 1989 was Poland's subsequent accession to the EU and NATO. Jakub Kamiński/PAP

President Andrzej Duda participated in the international conference 'On the Downfall of Communism. 1989 in Central and Eastern Europe' on Thursday in Warsaw, organised on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the Polish Round Table Talks.

History in the making as Round Table talks held 30 years ago today began process which would eventually lead to the collapse of communism

On the anniversary of the historic Round Table talks, TFN’s Stuart Dowell talks to the man who captured ‘the beginning of the end’ of communism, photographer Jarosław Maciej Goliszewski.

President, PM recall communism-ending Round Table Talks

The Round Table changed Poland's political system and today we are in the EU and NATO, President Andrzej Duda said on Tuesday, the eve of the 30th anniversary of the 1989 talks between Poland's communist government and the then-banned Solidarity Union.

Łódź rings in “year of Marek Edelman” as city remembers one of its most famous sons

Born on January 1, 1918 Edelman fought in the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, the Warsaw Uprising and went on to be a prominent anti-racism campaigner.

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