OPEN BORDERS OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: NATIONAL AND EUROPEAN IDENTITY ON THE EXAMPLE OF CERTAIN EU MEMBER-STATES by E. V. Khakhalkina, K. P. Andreev, G. V. Grosheva, I. A. Kochev

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RELIGION AND STATE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION by Joanna Kulska

“…In November 2009 the European Court of Human Rights made a ruling which has ordered the removal of crucifixes in Italian schools on the basis that they constitute “a violation of pupils’ religious freedom”. Almost at the same time the citizens of Switzerland decided in the referendum vote that they want to ban the building of minarets. …”
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Basic Evolutionary Stages of Polish Democracy by M. I. Marchuk

“…It has been proved that the peculiarities of modern Polish statehood are determined by the historical traditions of Polish democracy, the mentality of the Polish people and membership in the European Union and other international organizations. It has been emphasized that the implementation of economic and institutional transformations in Poland in the post-Soviet period was accompanied by the simultaneous formation of civil society. …”
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Lithuanian historical conception according to Ignas Onacevičius by Algirdas Šidlauskas

“…In general, there was no big difference in Lithuania between estates, until the wedding of Jogaila with the Polish queen; this is when the union between Lithuania and Poland began. It seems that l. …”
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