Youth and training
Interview with Bronislaw Geremek (Brussels, 11 June 2008) — Excerpt: his youth and the beginnings of his university career
VideoIn this interview, Bronislaw Geremek, Polish historian, former member of the social movement Solidarnosc, former Foreign Minister and former Member of the European Parliament, discusses his childhood memories and the first years of his university career in Warsaw and Paris.
Interview with Bronislaw Geremek (Brussels, 11 June 2008) — Excerpt: the beginnings of European integration seen by a citizen of the Eastern bloc
VideoIn this interview, Bronislaw Geremek, Polish historian, former member of the social movement Solidarnosc, former Foreign Minister and former Member of the European Parliament, discusses his lack of interest in the beginnings of European integration because of the political upheavals taking place in Eastern Europe at that time, in particular the rise to power of Wladyslaw Gomulka in Poland in 1956 and the Hungarian uprising and its suppression by Soviet troops in the same year.