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movement. It advocated free market economy and individual liberty (however in Catholic understanding), rejected extremism and fanaticism and favoured

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(in the form of European Union membership), rapid

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of the enterprises still owned by the Polish state and decentralisation of the government. Until 1991 was a part of the

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and

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