Aspecte privind relațiille româno-polone în perioada anilor ’80
Several Aspects Concerning Romanian-Polish Relations in the Early 1980s

Summary/Abstract: As the system crisis in Poland worsened in the early 1980s, a new chill occurred in the Bucharest-Warsaw relationship, which became even more serious after 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev launched the glasnost and perestroika policy. A fierce opponent of the idea of revision of existing structures, Bucharest’s Nicolae Ceaușescu viewed the change in Poland as a potential danger to the values of Communism. Although official Warsaw, just as the Polish opposition and public opinion hailed the victory of the Romanian revolution, at first Poland took a wait-and-see attitude. There were several reasons for this, such as the change of regime in Romania, the events of March 1990 in Târgu Mureș, and the miners’ riots on June 13-15, 1990. The fascination exerted by the West was one ofthe reasons why closer cooperation, which would serve both sides, was delayed, relations with the formerly Communist neighbours being relegated to the background. After the Romanian revolution of December 1989, the bilateral relations developed gradually, based on contacts, visits and meetings at all echelons, top-level included, which produced agreements in various areas.

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