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TROUBLE IN PARADISE: MAINTAINING THE EU
IDEAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY IN
EASTERN EUROPE
Amanda Lilah Harb
I. INTRODUCTION
[We were] under the sway of the destructive belief that man is
pinnacle of creation, and not just a part of it, and that therefore
everything is permitted .... We are still destroying the planet that was
entrusted to us, and its environment.' - President Vaclav Havel of the
Czech and Slovak Federated Republic2
Twenty-first century Krakow, Poland bustles with tourists and
vendors. No one notices the faceless statues that haunt the little streets
stemming out from the Rynek Gl6wny, the Grand Square.3 Melted by
acid rain, they linger as survivors of industrialism. As time passes, the
ideas of industrialism do as well, but the times in Eastern Europe are
also alive with change. Today, the empowered vestiges of former
Yugoslavia and former Soviet Union are independent, thriving nations
seeking to transform their governments and rejuvenate their land. The
1 William K. Reilly, The 1991 Bellagio Conference on U.S. U.S.S.R.
Environmental Protection Institution: International Cooperation on the Environment:
The Cleanup of Eastern Europe, 19 B.C. Envtl. Aff. L. Rev. 501, 501-02 (1992).
2 See Julian Borger, Vaclac Havel, Former Czech President, dies aged 75, THE
GUARDIAN, Dec. 18, 2011, http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/20 11/dec/i 8/vaclav-havel-
dies.Vdiclav Havel was a dissident playwright who led the Czechoslovakian velvet
revolution and was one of the fathers of the east European pro-democracy movement
that led to the fall of the Berlin wall. He was the first post-Communist Czechoslovakian
president. See Julian Borger, Vaclac Havel, Former Czech President, dies aged 75, TiE
GUARDIAN, December 18, 2011, available at
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/201 /dec/18/vaclav-havel-dies.
3 Dark Past, Bright Future: Environmental Cooperation in Central and Eastern
Europe and the New Independent States (EPA 160-K-98-002), ENVIRONMENTAL
PROTECTION AGENCY INTERNATIONAL PROGRAMS,
http://www.epa.gov/oiamount/regions/Europe/darkpast.htm (The covers of
environmental magazines and journals no longer feature soot-covered faces of children
in the Black Triangle or the faceless statues of Krakow's monuments, dissolved by acid
rain.).](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.journals/earjujo6&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)
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