Kaczynski: Germany is trying to conquer Europe by peaceful methods

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The president of the ruling party in Poland denounced the “sovereign state” imposed by Berlin, which “leads to crisis and misery”

The chairman of Poland’s ruling conservative nationalist party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, today denounced Germany’s “dominion” in Europe, accusing it of wanting to carry out by peaceful means “the plans it once wanted to carry out by military means”.

Kaczynski, considered the ruling right’s strongman and chief strategist and accustomed to attacking Germany and the European Union, delivered the speech in Legnica, south-west Poland, as part of his tour of the region ahead of of the parliamentary elections scheduled for autumn 2023.

Kaczynski said, according to Polish news agency PAP, that Europe’s strength lies in the strength of its countries and, to a large extent, in the strength of sovereign states.

He denounced “the state of sovereignty, a situation where, by peaceful methods, one of the European states, today the largest after Russia, is carrying out plans that it once wanted to carry out by military methods. This is a path that leads to crisis and unhappiness. Not only of Poland, but of Europe, and of this country, Germany,” Kaczynski said.

Alongside anti-German and Eurosceptic rhetoric, which the Polish opposition believes is at least partly linked to the election campaign, Polish authorities have recently mounted a diplomatic offensive to demand World War II reparations from Germany, which are estimated from Warsaw to 1.3 trillion euros.

According to Germany, Poland renounced its claims to war reparations in 1953 and has repeatedly confirmed this renunciation.

In this context, Poland rejected at the end of November Germany’s proposal to send it the Patriot anti-aircraft defense system, after the fatal fall of a missile on its territory. Warsaw suggested that Germany transfer this equipment to Ukraine.

At the same time, a poll by the SW Research institute on behalf of the Rzeczpospolita daily published today shows that half of Poles are dissatisfied with the policy of the ruling conservative nationalist Law and Justice (PiS) party towards Germany.

According to the poll, 50.5% of respondents negatively evaluate the policy of Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki’s government towards Berlin.

On the other hand, 18.7% approve of Morawiecki’s course and 30.8% state that they have no opinion on the matter.

Several actions of the PiS government have recently caused irritation in German-Polish relations.

The survey was conducted online among a sample of 800 adults on November 29 and 30.

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