Letter from... Brussels: Nato takes on board the changing face of politics.(News)

From: The Birmingham Post (England) | Date: March 12, 1999| Author: Hamilton, Douglas | Copyright information

Nato's official chronology devotes 23 pages to its first 44 years and 62 pages to the 1990s, the action-packed decade that opened with triumph in the Cold War and closes with the challenge of transformation.

It's a history pointed towards the future, and one of the first milestones on Nato's new path occurs this week.

The formal accession of new member states Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic is the first punctuation mark in the process of widening what ...

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