Marek Beylin
Marek Beylin (b. 1957) is a trained historian, who has collaborated with German, French and Czech colleagues on research on collective memory in society. Since the early 1990s Beylin has been working for Gazeta Wyborcza, where he has been in charge of the op-ed page since 2003.
Updated: 2 April 2010
With their refusal to build a federal Europe around the single currency, politicians have surrendered power to the economy. To win back this power and to share it with citizens, a Polish historian argues that they should construct a federation of nations. 
Power, hitherto held by parties, governments and parliaments, is passing into the hands of citizens’ movements of every stripe. Is this Hannah Arendt’s dream come true in which everyone participates in public affairs? asks historian Marek Beylin.