Krzysztof Bobiński is the president of Unia & Polska, a pro-European think-tank in Warsaw. He was the Financial Times’s Warsaw correspondent (1976-2000) and later published Unia & Polska magazine. He writes for European Voice and is an associate editor on the Europe section of Europe’s World

Recent articles

The elections that broke communist power in Poland in 1989 also triggered political revolution across east-central Europe. But their longer-term outcome was a great retreat by the Solidarity movement and its working-class supporters. It's time to acknowledge the more complex truths of the period and move on, says Krzysztof Bobinski.

The European Union has walked backwards into its Eastern Partnership. The events in Moldova show what the project needs to be about, says Krzysztof Bobinski.

The political responses to the financial crisis in the European Union’s east reveal a failure to understand the union's own history, says Krzysztof Bobinski.

A contest over Poland's post-1945 communist era is being conducted in a way that renders much of this past invisible, says Krzysztof Bobinski in Warsaw. 

A summit dominated by financial breakdown and climate change reveals a European Union divided, playing for time, in need of leadership - but still in the game, says Krzysztof Bobinski.