Posted on 09/11/2006 12:13:03 AM PDT by twinself
Polish Prime Minster Jaroslaw Kaczynski said Sunday he has cleared the air with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and they would meet again in Berlin on Oct. 30.
He told reporters in Helsinki that a short meeting between the two was "very nice" and had allowed him to explain misunderstandings, which he claimed had been created by false media reports.
"We've managed to clarify some issues that were just a matter of misunderstanding. I noticed that the chancellor had learned something from the press that was complete nonsense."
He was referring to media reports that junior coalition partner the League of Polish Families was trying to erode rights that guarantee Poland's German minority a seat in parliament. Kaczynski heads the ruling Law and Justice party.
"The press wrote that I announced I would abolish some political rights, especially political rights for the national minorities and it is untrue... In spite of the fact that Poles do not enjoy the same rights in other countries, we will uphold those rights for national minorities in Poland."
Relations between the two nations have soured since Polish President Lech Kaczynski, a nationalist conservative, came to power and Germany began a gas pipeline project with Russia bypassing Poland both last year.
Adding to these recent tensions, German organizations representing Germans who were expelled from their Eastern European homelands after World War II have been trying to focus attention on their difficulties.
Kaczynski said he and Merkel mainly discussed future meetings and his October trip to Berlin would largely cover "government consultations with elements of an official visit."
Merkel told him she was one-quarter Polish, he said, but her father had changed his Polish surname 'Kaczmarczyk' to the more German-sounding 'Kasner' at the end of the 1930s.
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I just heard an EUwwwww sponsored ad on local radio here in Clare this morn. The ad was about CAP (Common agricultural policy) in which a guy opposed to CAP was portrayed as total idiot and the guy in favour of CAP was a virtue of common sense saying CAP brought jobs, helped the environment and cheap food! Typical in your face euro-propaganda if ever I heard it. Now, I live in the country surrounded by farmers and they do not give a fiddlers about the environment and God help us all if there is a major world shock that disrupts food supply and we have to rely on EU lobotomized and subsidized farmers to do some real work like grow crops! Eu induced inefficiency could cause another famine?
One another point - looks like it's rained off at the K-Club. All the years of hard work ruined by the weather (but imagine what the event would be like if subsidized by the euro-weenies)
Ummm I am not saying that the Irsih don't play a role in their success.
How can I explain to an american ...
It's not like we were at war - there's 2 winners - Ireland and the EU. Maybe that's confusing because winning in the USA always meens somebody has to loose.
We did this - not the EU or the Irish alone. The irish longed for a chance and were not lazy and very bold and such... and the EU simply wanted to become a more sturdy community by uniting the interests of more promising states to overcome threats like the Dollar infaltion or the exploding chineese market - and gave money (as an invest in our european future that is)
In the end we noticed even that we need more european forces... (a bit late though)
So we both won.
Hard to believe hu ?
Anyway, well put, Colosis!
EU lobotomized and subsidized farmers to do some real work like grow crops! Eu induced inefficiency could cause another famine?
It's already partly responsible for famine in other parts of the world - think of how the food mountains and the quotas prevented a surplus of cheap food getting to the Third World!
Colosis is an Irishman, you idiot! Do you even bother looking at profile pages??
Which straight away invalidates most of the rest of your statement.....
aaaah did I make you happy ? your welcome.
And you still haven't apolgised - I demaded one, not asked - you'd swear you have a choice or something....
ummm you forgot to capitalize your demand and put 20 exclamation marks behind it.
Furtheron I will be more convinced of your 'demands' if you spilled out some more half backed nazi comparisons and insults - that always gives you the look of a well informed and worth to read poster - not at all making you a clown.
Like forgetting to capitalize at the start of a sentence...
Furtheron I will be more convinced of your 'demands' if you spilled out some more half backed nazi comparisons and insults - that always gives you the look of a well informed and worth to read poster - not at all making you a clown.
Crybaby. You insult Ireland, then you can't take it when I hit back, I have nothing against Germany, just condescending trolls like you!!
I'm still waiting for your apology!!
... not a clown at all :)
You are not worth my bandwitdh, I take comfort in the fact you will be zotted soon....
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