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The EU should keep itself out of Polish interior affairs as long as the country does not topple into a unhealty extremist or undemocratic direction. This is absolutely not given in the moment.

I’m just curious which “Central Committee” will be responsible for monitoring of what is extremist and undemocratic? In these hard times that we live in some people and organizations claim that lack of Homo-marriages or abortion is already lack of basic human rights and profanation of democracy. It is Christian fundamentalism (very dangerous form of extremism)…

Uh well. I.e. you Poles lined up with the US to free a extremist and undemocratic country - Iraq. You even broke international law to do that (I understand the reasons for it quite well - we do not have to discuss this). If the European nations would have joined Poland against Hitler in 1934 - 35 the history would have turned out better. Nobody can define the necessity when there is the right moment to react from the outside. Sometimes it is nessecary. Anyway this has nothing to do with the current political situation in your country since there is for sure no need for such drastic action. In fact there is no need for any foreign action at all. It is your own problem and -as a friend of Poland- I have to say that it would be intelligent if you would do something about it.

Although I am in opposition to the "Austria" case it worked quite well. The isolation was one of the reasons why Haider doesn't play a role in contemporary Austrian politics anymore. The Austrians understood that it is not helpful for them to elect a sugar coated nazi.

It you say that Polish catholicism is fundamentalism then I would be a extremist too since I am also a quite religious person. On the other hand i.e. capital punishment is something that is simply not accepted in western Europe anymore. Countries that are doing that are seen as barbarians by the broad western European public (Our American friends will crucify me for this statement, but it is the truth). Therefore countries that have such a law practice simply do not fit into the EU or other European clubs.

There are some points that would split up our ways if your gouvernment will push its whole agenda through.