ORANGE ALTERNATIVE AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT IN BRUSSELS
Photos from the “Orange Alternative at EP” Expo’s opening cocktail at the European Parliament headquarters in Brussels, June 21st 2005
Interview with Vice President of the EP, MEP Janusz Onyszkiewicz, during the opening cocktail of the expo (unauthorized version):
For me the Orange Alternative from the military regime days was a smile, a moment of joy, some freedom in the grayness of our yonder existence. It was something bright and warm, well something simply orange… And that is why I believe that it is precisely this kind of approach to life, this kind of positively critical, smiling, ridiculing, but yet friendly and constructive attitude that is needed everywhere around the world, not only in Poland, but particularly there where the country is drowned in a pool of hatred, anger and revengeful feelings.
But I suppose this attitude is needed every other place where the situation recalls that of Poland now and under the communist regime. In Ukraine where the situation was similar, big changes took place – and that is positive – but they will still need this kind of an outlook, smile, and elsewhere the people will need it too.
- So this smile, this outlook, we would need it too now?
I have just said that we would really need it, and particularly now, when the Polish politics is, well I don’t mean to say awfully serious, since the politics is always somewhat a serious matter, but because the Polish politics is now so terribly dominated by hatred, revengefulness, in an atmosphere, where throwing dirt on one another has become something normal and even expected. It is precisely in such a situation that the approach presented by the Orange Alternative is something very much needed and lacking in Poland, something that would possibly balance, or maybe even replace that style of doing politics, of the public discourse and attitude toward to the politics that unfortunately dominates now in Poland.
Brussels, June 21st 2005
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