The findings come days after Donald Tusk indicated that his government would not continue its predecessor’s push for reparations.
The findings come days after Donald Tusk indicated that his government would not continue its predecessor’s push for reparations.
In both cases, Olaf Scholz did not provide details of what these measures would involve in practice.
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The 1928 work was stolen from the National Museum in Warsaw, according to Poland’s culture ministry.
The secretary general of Poland’s ruling party has expressed concern that Germany’s initial offer was only a “PR ploy”.
The Polish government has proposed that Germany should place the Patriot air defence systems in Ukraine, rather than in Poland.
Berlin has also offered Eurofighters to help patrol Polish airspace.
“I believe the German chancellor will come to his senses” but, if not, “they’ll have a problem”, says Poland’s incoming deputy foreign minister.
Aleks Szczerbiak
The issue offers a way to attack the opposition and mobilise the ruling party’s electorate.
Wojciech Kość
The government claims that the poisoning was a catastrophic but natural occurrence.
“Germany admits its historical responsibility [but] the issue of reparations is a closed one from the perspective of the German government.”
Reparations “will allow Polish-German relations to be based on justice and truth and will lead to the closing of painful chapters in the past”, says Poland.
The decision came after Germany took control of a refinery majority owned by Russian oil giant Rosneft, something Poland had demanded.
“It is Germany’s intention for us to be subject to them. We do not want to be under anyone’s boot. We have to resist it.”
Ukraine “requires much greater support from Europe, especially the biggest and richest countries like Germany.