Interview with Patrick Merloe, co-founder of the DoP

Patrick Merloe, formerly of NDI, was one of the co-founders of the Declaration of Principles (DoP) on International Election Observation and Code of Conduct and was its lead drafter. In this interview he explains the impetus behind it, what it…

A venue that symbolises democracy

The DoP meeting is being held at the historic BHP Hall, in the former shipyard on the outskirts of Gdansk. In August 1980, the Independent Self-Governing Trade Union, known as “Solidarność” (Solidarity), was set up here, which led Poland on…