Reactie voorzitter Schulz op overlijden Poolse oud-premier Mazowiecki (en)

"It is with sadness that I learned about the death of Tadeusz Mazowiecki, a great Pole, committed European and a person of noble character. We have lost a freedom fighter, reformer, intellectual and statesman, who was instrumental in changing the history of Poland and Europe.

A senior adviser of the Solidarity movement, Mazowiecki played an important role in overthrowing oppressive communist regimes in Poland and the whole of Central and Eastern Europe. As Poland's first non-communist Prime Minister after World War II, he put the country on the path of political and economic reform that eventually resulted in membership of the European Union.

I join the Polish people in their mourning. I send my condolences to his family and friends."