Only a few cities can claim that they have changed Europe and indeed the World. Gdańsk is privileged to be one of them. It is not a “caprice of history” that the Solidarity movement which, in the end, got the iron curtain torn, was born in this particular place. It is a logical consequence of ten centuries of the collective wisdom of the people that built Gdańsk and the region of Pomerania. The tragic assassination of the Mayor of Gdańsk, Paweł Adamowicz, in 2019, reminds us that these values that city represents – solidarity and freedom – should be recaptured from those who want to push our cities towards other principles. Gdańsk is once again becoming a symbol of the choice we all have to face. Is the city ready to set sail towards a new destination in its stormy history?

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格但斯克：团结自由之城

只有少数城市可以声称他们已经改变了欧洲乃至世界。格但斯克有幸成为其中之一。最终撕破铁幕的团结运动在这个特殊的地方诞生，并不是“历史的反复无常”。这是建立格但斯克和波美拉尼亚地区的人们十个世纪集体智慧的合乎逻辑的结果。2019 年格但斯克市市长 Paweł Adamowicz 的悲惨暗杀提醒我们，应该从那些想要推动我们的城市走向其他原则的人那里重新夺回这座城市所代表的这些价值观——团结和自由。格但斯克再次成为我们都必须面对的选择的象征。这座城市准备好在其风雨飘摇的历史中启航前往新目的地了吗？