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Freedom and its obligations

The transformation of Eastern and Central Europe in the past six months presents Europe with a fateful choice between the future and, in one sense, the bad old past. Here is one way in which it can be made.

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Freedom and its obligations. Nature 343, 1–2 (1990). https://doi.org/10.1038/343001a0

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