The German media welcomed the lack of a decisive response from Prime Minister Donald Tusk regarding Poland receiving reparations. “Today Donald Tusk wants to close the issue in the interest of all Germany. Without the will of the Sejm, the President and the Council of Ministers, such actions are ineffective. Poles will not forget these anti-Polish statements,” Arkadiusz Mularczyk wrote on X.
The new Polish government wants to start talks with Germany about compensation for the losses suffered during the Second World War
– wrote the dpa office after Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s meeting with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz yesterday in Berlin.
In a formal and legal sense, the issue of reparations has been closed for many years. said Prime Minister Donald Tusk Monday in Berlin after a meeting with the Chancellor.
The issue of moral, financial and material compensation was never realized
– quotes the Polish Prime Minister dpa.
German media note that Donald Tusk and Scholz will seek forms of cooperation that will not make the historical past the main issue for Polish-German relations.
In October 2022, the Government of Law and Justice demanded more than 1.3 trillion euros from the German government in compensation for damage caused during the Second World War.
Berlin, in turn, considered the issue of reparations closed and invoked the Two Plus Four Treaty regarding the foreign policy consequences of German unification, in which Poland did not participate.
Criticism of the Prime Minister
United Right politicians commented on social media on Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s questioning on the issue of reparations to Poland.
Important statement by Donald Tusk in Berlin. The issue of reparations to Poland for the German crimes of the Second World War is not on the Prime Minister’s mind. The government will settle for a symbolic gesture from Germany so as not to irritate its ally too much. We very quickly returned to the foreign policy that was conducted on our knees
– wrote Marcin Romanowski, a member of parliament of Sovereign Poland, on Platform X.
Former deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and PiS MP Arkadiusz Mularczyk noted that the issue of actions in the context of reparations was determined in the government resolution of April 2023.
The position of the Government of the Republic of Poland on the need to address in Polish-German relations the issue of reparations, compensation and compensation for the losses suffered by Poles and Poles as a result of the unlawful German attack on Poland in 1939 and the subsequent German attack to regulate occupation was expressed in Resolution No. 51 of the Council of Ministers of April 18, 2023. Prime Minister Donald Tusk’s statement on this changes nothing
– wrote Arkadiusz Mularczyk and posted a photo of the relevant document in Monitor Polski.
Even Bolesław Bierut, a senior Comintern official, did not effectively waive reparations from the GDR. He had to satisfy the blackmailers from the USSR, and at the same time he left the door open for his successors. Today Donald Tusk wants to close the issue in the interest of all Germany. Without the will of the Sejm, the President and the Council of Ministers, such actions are ineffective. Poles will not forget these anti-Polish statements
– added the former Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs.
MP Paweł Jabłoński was no less critical in his assessment.
You are the Prime Minister of the Government of the Republic of Poland. Your country has been attacked and robbed. Civilians murdered. Cities and villages were razed to the ground. A country that has been enslaved for half a century, deprived of independence and development opportunities. The perpetrators never paid. Your country has never relinquished its claims. The perpetrators are still paying bills for their other crimes, even from 120 years ago. And the knowledge that there are also accounts for crimes committed in Poland. And you go to these perpetrators – and instead of demanding payment from them, you crawl over their shoes. Instead of asking them to explain why they didn’t pay, explain yourself as a student to the director. You’re ashamed to say something that could spoil the atmosphere. And you give them the strongest argument to never pay for what they did to us. If you don’t want that? If you justify them yourself…? Of course they smile and pat you on the back. At the airport they welcome you beautifully, with military ceremonies. They say you’re back in the premier league. That you are a great European leader. You believe in all this. You fly to Poland – and they wonder: did he really say that? Are we seriously closing this case that easily? They thought you were just pretending… And they laugh at you. Not in your face, but very powerfully behind your back. They’ve never spoken to a loser like that before
– wrote Paweł Jabłoński on the X website, posting the Sejm resolution on Poland demanding compensation from Germany.
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Source: wPolityce