Souls at the polls
As the people of Poland prepare to elect a president, the Catholic church wants to influence how they cast their votes. Daniel Passent, of the Polish weekly Polityka, asks whether the new democracy is becoming a theocracy
Tag: Eastern Europe
The Yugoslav tragedy
As the war in the former Yugoslavia moves towards a denouement, Aleksa Djilas, son of the late dissident Milovan Djilas, disputes the view that it is a peculiarly Balkan horror. Instead, he argues, it is part of the unstoppable process…