Germany, France, Poland and the future of the European Union
March 9, 2023 - Eugeniusz Smolar
March 9, 2023 - Eugeniusz Smolar
March 6, 2023 - James Jackson Paweł Jabłoński
January 5, 2023 - Eugeniusz Smolar
December 14, 2022 - Anna Kwiatkowska
September 29, 2022 - Kinga Gajda
July 1, 2021 - Aaron Allen
May 10, 2019 - Solveiga Kaļva
April 26, 2019 - Monika Szafrańska
February 26, 2018 - Uwe Rada
For 25 years, Warsaw and Berlin have shared a ride in the same car, often on rocky and bumpy roads, but mostly agreeing on the route. Since Law and Justice (PiS) took power, Chancellor Angela Merkel has observed the developments from a distance, rarely speaking out, unlike many other European Union officials. Over the past 14 months of PiS’s rule, however, some advancements took on an extreme character, and the Polish-German car seemed to have hit an icy patch with the breaks failing. Chancellor Merkel seems to agree that a longer stay in a garage should be prevented, and paid Poland a flying visit on Tuesday last week.
February 15, 2017 - Jacqueline Westermann
When we think back to June 1991, we see great value in the treaty between Poland and Germany. It was a new beginning in relations between the two states. Yet, the treaty was more than bilateral, it was also a building bloc in the construction of a new Europe, without which there would be no united Germany, NATO or the European Union. Every time I cross the Polish-German border, which nowadays is merely a formal line, seeing as there are no controls or checkpoints, I feel like a free European. I feel the positive aspect of history and the great decisions that led us here. I write this because as a teenager, I experienced a completely different reality, a continent divided by the iron curtain. Even in the 1990s, a time when Poland was already free and Germany had united, cross-border travel was not as pleasant an experience as it is today, because the Oder and Nysa rivers marked the periphery of the European Union. At that time, we still had to wait at the border and go through border control.
June 16, 2016 - Basil Kerski
June 5, 2016 - Maciej Makulski