“Paris was the last summit where the optimistic spirit of the early years was revived,” recalls Jerzy Nowak, a former CSCE diplomat who had also taken part in the negotiations in Geneva from 1973 to 1975 as a member of the Polish delegation. “At the follow-up conference in Budapest in 1994, there was already a feeling that European cooperatio

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