Memo: Message from Mr José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission, to His Excellency Mr Bronisław Komorowski, President of the Republic of Poland

On 28 October 2013, José Manuel Durão Barroso, President of the European Commission expressed, on behalf of the European Commission, condolences to Poland and the family and friends of Tadeusz Mazowiecki.

Tadeusz Mazowiecki was the first non-communist prime minister elected in partially free elections in 1989, and became the icon of the democratic transition in Central and Eastern Europe.

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