Central-Eastern Europe Watch will one day resume and all posts will appear again. e a number of reasons I hope people will understand for this move and it is connected with my role as a member of Cracovia Urbs Europaea :Konfederajca Na Rzecz Przyszlosci Krakowa.This conservation group aims to protect Krakows's UNESCO World Heritage Site from brutal and ugly new architectural developers and this means having to try to gain the help of prominent conservative, even "neoconservative", public figures.
As a result of my having to persuade and gain the help of Polish politicians from PiS and PO whom I have criticised over what I have considered bad foreign policies. This is might draw accusations of being craven or lacking in principle.
I have had to remove articles on the bad diplomacy over the Missille Shield, the foolishness of backing Saakashvili in Georgia and the mistaken idea that Russia is engaged in a "New Cold War" and the Soviet Union was Russia writ large.
This decision has been made with clenched teeth but there is a chance that with our campaign in Krakow we really can stop rapacious property developers despoiling Krakow whilst my chances of altering global diplomacy are, let's say, far less likely to happen as a result of my writing.
Thanks to those who supported this blog, helpfully criticised and commented and remember: this is a tactical move and not a change in my stance against the Missile Shield or opposition to the war and Afghanistan and Iraq all.
On achieving my objectives ( or some of them in protecting old Krakow from destruction ) all articles will be restored and the archive put back in place. All articles have been safely stored as drafts and will re-appear in 2011.
Please feel free to follow the sister blog which accompanies this one is is concerned only with Poland and Krakow
http://krakowheritagewatch.blogspot.com/
Karl Naylor,
Bronowice, Krakow 2010
