Warsaw: GermanyThe new foreign minister showed solidarity on Friday Poland It also called for humanitarian treatment of migrants and refugees stranded near the country’s border with Belarus as temperatures drop.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock also raised the delicate issue of governance Law Under Poland’s right-wing government, which is at odds with the European Union over its efforts to control Polish judges.
Bairbock was sworn in on Wednesday as part of the coalition government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw, zabignyu rau, she vowed not to make decisions “at the head of our neighbors or at the expense of others”.
“That’s why we stand here with full responsibility and solidarity on the side of Poland and the Baltic states,” she said. Poland’s government and EU officials have accused Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko of retributing against the EU by directing migrants to the 27-nation bloc’s eastern borders.
Polish leaders expressed displeasure when former German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about the matter in talks with Belarusian and Russian presidents.
Bairbock said it is important for Germany to receive humanitarian aid to asylum seekers on “both sides of the border” as temperatures drop.
“This is our common European border, where humanity and order prevail,” she said.
Bairbock said he took up the rule of law with Rau, “even if it’s uncomfortable. But it’s the epitome of strong friendship, facing uncomfortable questions.”
Poland is involved in a bitter dispute with the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. The Commission on Erosion of Judicial Independence is withholding epidemic recovery funds from Poland.
The ongoing dispute deepened after the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, under the political influence of the governing Law and Justice party, ruled this fall that Polish law took precedence over EU law in key areas.
The government in Warsaw argues that the withholding of funds by the European Commission itself is a violation of EU law.
Some Poles fear the dispute could put the country on a path of eventual departure from the European Union, the so-called Polexit.
Citing opinion polls showing strong support in Poland for EU membership, Barbock said it would be wrong for Germans to consider themselves a “better European”.
“That’s why I won’t issue any public advice,” she said. “But I hope for all of us, for the German-Polish friendship, for our shared Europe, that we find solutions that strengthen Europe. And Poland is an essential part of that.”
Bairbock 40, belonging to the Greens Party of Germany, and Rau, 66, members of the right-wing Law and Justice, were cordial, addressing each other by their first names, while Bairbock mentioned that their grandparents were Poland. More and more came to Germany. 60 years earlier.
He expressed his gratitude for the relationship between Germany and Poland in light of the “innumerable Polish victims caused by German actions” during World War II. Germany’s Nazis occupied Poland during the war and committed large-scale atrocities against the population.
The war still remains a very symbolic issue that is still shaping the relationship, and one that has often been seized upon by the ruling nationalists in Poland.
A deputy minister in the government recently accused Germany of seeking to create a “fourth” reichMeanwhile there are currently a series of posters funded by a state institution in Warsaw and other Polish cities demanding that Germany pay a fee for Nazi crimes.
In Polish and addressing the German ambassador Arndt Freitag von Löringhoven, one says: “Will the German authorities, who are so interested in the rule of law of other countries, eventually address the German humiliating anarchy and German crimes of World War II.” Will pay Polish indemnity for. ?
Rao expressed a similar view in more diplomatic terms.
“An area in which we continue to expect good substantive cooperation from the German government is the issue of Germany’s responsibility for World War II and contemporary aspects of that event. Let us go back to the return of cultural assets confiscated by Germany. should,” said Rau.
Agnieszka Lada-Konfal, deputy director of the German Institute for Polish Affairs in Darmstadt, Germany, said that the recent anti-German rhetoric from Poland’s ruling circle is for domestic political purposes and aimed at the electorate, but “it would have had a very negative impact.” “Polish-German relations”.
“It sends a terrible signal to Germany. It’s something the Germans don’t understand,” she told the Associated Press on Friday from Warsaw. “They don’t know why there is such a surge of rhetoric and they are already angry that it keeps on escalating.”
Before traveling to Warsaw, Bairbock held meetings in Paris and Brussels during his first foreign trip since taking office.
German Foreign Minister Annalena Barbock also raised the delicate issue of governance Law Under Poland’s right-wing government, which is at odds with the European Union over its efforts to control Polish judges.
Bairbock was sworn in on Wednesday as part of the coalition government of German Chancellor Olaf Scholz. Speaking with his Polish counterpart in Warsaw, zabignyu rau, she vowed not to make decisions “at the head of our neighbors or at the expense of others”.
“That’s why we stand here with full responsibility and solidarity on the side of Poland and the Baltic states,” she said. Poland’s government and EU officials have accused Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko of retributing against the EU by directing migrants to the 27-nation bloc’s eastern borders.
Polish leaders expressed displeasure when former German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about the matter in talks with Belarusian and Russian presidents.
Bairbock said it is important for Germany to receive humanitarian aid to asylum seekers on “both sides of the border” as temperatures drop.
“This is our common European border, where humanity and order prevail,” she said.
Bairbock said he took up the rule of law with Rau, “even if it’s uncomfortable. But it’s the epitome of strong friendship, facing uncomfortable questions.”
Poland is involved in a bitter dispute with the European Commission, the executive branch of the European Union. The Commission on Erosion of Judicial Independence is withholding epidemic recovery funds from Poland.
The ongoing dispute deepened after the Polish Constitutional Tribunal, under the political influence of the governing Law and Justice party, ruled this fall that Polish law took precedence over EU law in key areas.
The government in Warsaw argues that the withholding of funds by the European Commission itself is a violation of EU law.
Some Poles fear the dispute could put the country on a path of eventual departure from the European Union, the so-called Polexit.
Citing opinion polls showing strong support in Poland for EU membership, Barbock said it would be wrong for Germans to consider themselves a “better European”.
“That’s why I won’t issue any public advice,” she said. “But I hope for all of us, for the German-Polish friendship, for our shared Europe, that we find solutions that strengthen Europe. And Poland is an essential part of that.”
Bairbock 40, belonging to the Greens Party of Germany, and Rau, 66, members of the right-wing Law and Justice, were cordial, addressing each other by their first names, while Bairbock mentioned that their grandparents were Poland. More and more came to Germany. 60 years earlier.
He expressed his gratitude for the relationship between Germany and Poland in light of the “innumerable Polish victims caused by German actions” during World War II. Germany’s Nazis occupied Poland during the war and committed large-scale atrocities against the population.
The war still remains a very symbolic issue that is still shaping the relationship, and one that has often been seized upon by the ruling nationalists in Poland.
A deputy minister in the government recently accused Germany of seeking to create a “fourth” reichMeanwhile there are currently a series of posters funded by a state institution in Warsaw and other Polish cities demanding that Germany pay a fee for Nazi crimes.
In Polish and addressing the German ambassador Arndt Freitag von Löringhoven, one says: “Will the German authorities, who are so interested in the rule of law of other countries, eventually address the German humiliating anarchy and German crimes of World War II.” Will pay Polish indemnity for. ?
Rao expressed a similar view in more diplomatic terms.
“An area in which we continue to expect good substantive cooperation from the German government is the issue of Germany’s responsibility for World War II and contemporary aspects of that event. Let us go back to the return of cultural assets confiscated by Germany. should,” said Rau.
Agnieszka Lada-Konfal, deputy director of the German Institute for Polish Affairs in Darmstadt, Germany, said that the recent anti-German rhetoric from Poland’s ruling circle is for domestic political purposes and aimed at the electorate, but “it would have had a very negative impact.” “Polish-German relations”.
“It sends a terrible signal to Germany. It’s something the Germans don’t understand,” she told the Associated Press on Friday from Warsaw. “They don’t know why there is such a surge of rhetoric and they are already angry that it keeps on escalating.”
Before traveling to Warsaw, Bairbock held meetings in Paris and Brussels during his first foreign trip since taking office.
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