Poland

One of the youngest, most surprising and dynamic countries of the new European Union, with a passionate and dramatic history marked by periods of great expansion (the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth of 1569-1791), with a territory extending from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea) followed by partitions at the end of the 1700s which erased Poland from the maps and created a wound that remained open in the heart of Europe for the entire 19th century.
 
And then, after the unheard of suffering caused by the two world wars, Poland resurrected, the hopes of being reborn crushed under Russian-Soviet hegemony, the ferment of renewal in the Poland of Solidarity, the new republic (January, 1990), structural reforms, joining Europe, the economic boom and the prospect of imminent entry into the Euro zone.
 
A new and precise portrait, arriving with the latest disconcerting developments in Poland’s recent history.