Alongside the adverts for the latest French supermarket, Japanese plasma TVs, and a Roger Waters gig, the billboards of Warsaw are currently selling a new country. A man gazes at a rippling field of wheat while looking after a child; a young woman admires a fine old block of flats; a teenager contemplates a seascape. These are decent people - honest, successful and content. They are all, the billboards say, model Citizens of the Fourth Republic. This is a country that does not exist, at least not yet. But turning the billboard Fourth Republic into a real country called Poland is the vision of the extraordinary double act in European politics.Jaroslaw and Lech Kaczynski, prime minister and president of Poland respectively, and identical twins, have launched an ambitious project to fashion a new society from what they see as the rotten compromises of post-communist Polish democracy....
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