Charlemagne: Wlodzimierz Cimoszewicz

摘要

The Bush family goes down well in Poland. The older George was feted when he visited Warsaw a decade ago, promoting his short-lived "new world order". His son got an equally rapturous welcome in Poland's capital this summer, when he offered a less airy-fairy, more practical, but still ambitious vision for Central and Eastern Europe: no new world order but an expanding European Union and a NATO alliance that might have room for the Baits (too controversial to be mentioned as likely members in Bush Senior's day) and even, in time, for a healthy and westward-looking Ukraine. Nor, if Russia ever became prosperous, stable and fully democratic, should the door to Europe's clubs be slammed shut on it either. A new wall, said President Bush, must not rend the continent in half again. Most Poles were delighted. America's president seemed to echo their highest hopes.