Although he is Polish, his academic background is French. He worked toward his doctoral degree within Raymond Aron's circle at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences sociales in Paris. In the 1980s, he gave lectures in Germany and France on political sociology and the history of political liberalism. He has been conducting research on European integration and the political institutions in central and eastern European countries for a number of years.

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His recent works on the social dialogue and current research on the organisation of civil society in Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary will also be published in Brussels in the spring of 2001. He has also published a number of works in Polish, including The Constitutional Order in Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary (1997), The European Political System (1998), and European Integration and Politics (1999). Notre Europe Notre Europe is an independent research and policy unit whose objective is the study of Europe - its history and civilisations, integration process and future prospects. The association was founded by Jacques Delors in the autumn of 1996. It has a small team of six in-house researchers from various countries. Notre Europe participates in public debate in two ways. First, publishing internal research papers and second, collaborating with outside researchers and academics to contribute to the debate on European issues. These documents are made available to a limited number of decision-makers, politicians, socio-economists, academics and diplomats in the various EU Member States. The association also organises meetings and conferences in association with other institutions and publications. Under the organisation's articles of association, a European Steering Committee comprising leading figures from various European countries and political and professional origins meets at least three times a year.