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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That is true, a particularly interestinpoint about English - it's a common language - the most widespread language in the world, only two countries in Europe actually speak it as a first language - it's a major boost.
Better than a language that doesn't know how to pronounce 'w'! -:P
I think our corporation tax is even lower than the US!
Most of the Germans I meet in the business setting are painfully aware of the stereotype of the German who pronounces English "w" as English "f" or "v" - so they amusingly emphasize the proper pronunciation.
Educated Germans say "WWWork" rather than "vork."
It's also funny how so many Indians do the opposite - pronounce every "v" as a "w."
Oh, I didn't know that! Hmmm... India also has a rising economy, must be those EU subsidies it's getting........
;)
BuHuHaHa! I do not like the current subsidy system of the EU either. That does not mean that everything of the EU is evil. Nevertheless it is a fact that Ireland did most of its recent economic progress with money from the EU.
Besides - why are you against cooperation between France and Germany? That is simply not your party. Souvereignity can also be seen in a bigger coherence. Not everybody is able to understand this. Nevertheless - Germany and France are already controlling the economy of western continental Europe (no wonder - they make most of it) anyway and you Islanders do not really count in greater Europe. It is well known that especially your cousins from the UK are not keen to be part of a closer EU. Guess what - I have no problem with this decision. If you can get a majority of your compatriots to share your view - do me a favour and quit this club. I appreciate people who know what they want. If this is not the case - simply stop whining. To be in our out the EU is your very own problem.
If you can get a majority of your compatriots to share your view - do me a favour and quit this club. I appreciate people who know what they want. If this is not the case - simply stop whining. To be in our out the EU is your very own problem.
So... we just decise to leave the EU? That simple? We just vote and the EU accepts the will of the Irish people? Like, say, the way it did with Nice Treaty.....
Let's jump the sinking ship! ;)
sure you can build a house better and faster with learned motivated people - but are you serious that you can do that without bricks ?
... an sink the next :)
certainly... your a net reciever your people don't have much buyers force (to less and to poor) your industry is there because they coudn't find a wider abundance of new infrastructure (better then elsewhere in the commonwealth and EU financed) + the abundance in subsidies so they wouldn't go on either - your motivated and educated youth is also known as very flexible geographically and are welcome in the US or in switzerland or germany ... you name it.
Go on... leave the socialists club of terror funders that you support and get an independent country owned by china or the US - they will certainly give you a say on a more irish constitution.
I also avoid goosestepping and the word SChlagram and Blitzkrieg ;-)
Thank god the "baking an omlett by invading the kitchen" stereotype could be passed on the the US.
We have our own concrete factories here, what is your point, Mein Fuhrer? A big difference between importing and subsidies, in any case.
I am trying to find some semblance of coherency in your comment, Mein Fuhrer, let's see:
How many times do I have to tell you?? EU subsidies did NOT help the Irish economy - it was free market reform started by Garret Fitzgerald in the 1980s.
Subsidies combined with the Common Agricultural Policy of the 4th Reich have nearly destroyed Irish agriculture - Irish farmers propped up by Eurodole whilst jumping through hoops of fire complying with insane EUwwww directives and regulations, such as the quota nonsense, elsewhere our economy has gone from strength to strength because of deregulation, privatisation and lower taxation - and the work ethic that my fellow countrymen are famous for (hard work doesn't involve adhering to stringent timetables, as done in Germany).
You are also behind the times, Irish people don't emigrate anymore, because we turned the Irish economy around by ourselves!
Go on... leave the socialists club of terror funders that you support and get an independent country owned by china or the US - they will certainly give you a say on a more irish constitution.
Hold on there.... why do you think America has plans to conquer Eire?? And why are making a moral equivalent between China and the US?? Why are you assuming that Eire will allow a foreign power to rule it? That didn't work out too well before....
if anything, the EU is nothing but a puppet of China - wasn't there some ban lifted on Chinese imports there a while back? Not to mention that Eurocrats and Chicoms share a common outlook there - you know, socialism, global hegemony and all that.
BTW, about Switzerland - Brussels is bullying that country by forcing it to comply with it's stringent regulations in order for it to trade with EU Member States.
Why would we sink our own ship????
...not to mention that they've prettier women, especially when compared to the Fräuleins.
Hear, hear!!
Cailíní are better than Fräuleins!! ;)
>> I am trying to find some semblance of coherency in your comment, Mein Fuhrer, let's see:
ahhh the notorious dull minded nazi comparison to mark an idiot easily ;-)
BTW I give up on you... the dramatic increase in statistics on productivity in your country was due to the wise decision of your parliament not to take any taxes from people that settled in the dublin area for the sole reason your smarter then anyone else in europe and because they liked your misses.
to point (1) I may declare that this wasn't the point - it's been about where the money came from.
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