Polish and German government leaders met in Warsaw yesterday. The main item on the agenda was to improve relations between the two nations, which had deteriorated under Poland’s previous government and to declare responsibility for Europe’s security in turbulent times.
No German chancellor could travel to Poland without apologising for the slaughtering behaviour of an earlier generation of German leaders and their people. And that’s what Olaf Scholz did yesterday in Warsaw, where he also referred to the rising at the Warsaw Ghetto.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz traveled with 12 ministers and government officials, including Defence Minister Boris Pistorius, for the meeting in Warsaw.
“We bring a very clear message: Germany and Poland are good neighbours, close partners and reliable friends. And we want to create a new dynamic for our cooperation,” Scholz told a joint news conference with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
He stressed that “close partnership between Germany and Poland is very important to us.”
The two pro-European leaders were tightening ties at a time when support is surging in Europe for eurosceptic far-right parties and days after first round of elections in France, which brought the far right closer than ever to government.
It’s significant on the day the Germans apologised to Poland, in the Netherlands a new government is appointed with a majority of the cabinet being far right parliamentarians.
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