West and East West and East
In Maastricht twelve members of the European Community reached another stage on the road toward some form of union, notably with the pledge to introduce a common currency, the ec...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin’s Round Yeltsin’s Round
Nothing is over, not even the counting; given the prevailing mood of mutual suspicion there will be plenty of disputes over the final result.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Yeltsin, the Lame-Duck Czar Yeltsin, the Lame-Duck Czar
Six months after the storming of Russia's Parliament, Boris Yeltsin and his backers, domestic and foreign, must have second thoughts about the wisdom of the coup that climaxed in...
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Historic Moment Historic Moment
The meeting around a green table between representatives of Poland's ruling party and of Solidarity, scheduled for February 6, is a historic occasion. It marks a serious new atte...
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
The Last Superpower The Last Superpower
The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe, held in Paris at the end of November, might best be described by reversing Tolstoy's title. This was Peace and War.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
‘Solidarity Will Never Die’ ‘Solidarity Will Never Die’
If Polish law supposes that a huge social movement can be voted out of existence, then, as Mr.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
What Price Gloire What Price Gloire
The only free Kanaks are dead ones, the outgoing French government might have argued.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Europe in the Post-Yalta Era Europe in the Post-Yalta Era
History knows no neat radical breaks.
Jan 2, 1998 / Feature / Daniel Singer
Solidarity Lost Solidarity Lost
On December 9, after a second ballot, Lech Walesa, the former electrician from the Lenin Shipyards, will be the President of the Polish Republic.
Jan 2, 1998 / Daniel Singer
Fact or Fiction? Fact or Fiction?
Jacques Attali, until June 25 the president of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development but for years the French President's personal assistant, cannot be too happy w...
Jan 2, 1998 / Books & the Arts / Daniel Singer