It’s not the question wether we like or dislike the poles. Gerhard Schröder did the wrong (populistic) thing when he sealed the borders for cheap polish labour.
This time the question is - why can’t Kaszinsky win some distance from his anti-german resentiments ?
And:
Why should we put so much weight on a relatively instable and new partner like poland ?
Wouldn’t it be much better to give this high potential the time to grow it needs ? Imagine K. overdoes his anti german emotional demands. That could mean the new formation of a core europe without poland.
On the other hand the simple and basic democratic approach allready sets poland in a very heavy position since it is a large country with many people.
It’s easy to see the high influence of poland in the EU - all it needs is a little more diplomatic skills of the leadership.