A silent coup in Poland?

[Zanza]

The other East Europeans with anti-German or anti-EU views are all russophiles (Zeman, Fico, Orban) so they are not compatible with PiS.

[Martinus]

Yes, reality has always been a problem for the "Jagellon strategy".

Namely, the rest of Mitteleuropa is not very keen to accept Poland's enlightened leadership.

[Norgy]

Can we: call it a PiS-poor strategy?

[Martinus]

So, the Polish foreign affairs minister is making waves here in Poland after giving some moronic interview to Bild and then being quoted by Reuters saying he would support the UK taking away some of the EU migrants' social rights if the UK supported placing of NATO bases in Poland.

He is now in a heavy damage control mode, especially as PiS won among the UK-based diaspora more heavily than in Poland proper. 

[Duque de Bragança]

Will PiS manage to piss off the Balts as well this time?

[Martinus]

Will PiS manage to piss off the Balts as well this time?

Almost certainly.

[Zanza]

Merkel will support Cameron on the social welfare topic if it raises the chance to keep the UK in the union.

[Duque de Bragança]

Will PiS manage to piss off the Balts as well this time?

Almost certainly.

Laughter is the best medicine.

[The Minsky Moment]

Poland is not Hungary or Russia, mind you - people here are very contrarian and freedom-loving to the point of anarchism and any attempts at authoritarianism need to be very clever to succeed.

Emmanuel Todd famously predicted that Communism would fail in Poland - the traditional family structure was nuclear egalitarian and thus the tendency towards resistance to authoritarianism.

[Eddie Teach]

Merkel will support Cameron on the social welfare topic if it raises the chance to keep the UK in the union.

What are Cameron's demands?

[OttoVonBismarck]

I never really got the reason why PiS is so anti-German. Is it because of current political issues or just age-old resentments?

I like the blase attitude when you're talking about grievances in living human memory in which Germans killed some six million Polish citizens.

[jimmy olsen]

The EU hasn't done anything about Hungary's media laws has it?

[Zanza]

I never really got the reason why PiS is so anti-German. Is it because of current political issues or just age-old resentments?

I like the blase attitude when you're talking about grievances in living human memory in which Germans killed some six million Polish citizens.

As Marty said it's not so much about what the Nazis did in WW2, but rather what the Prussians did throughout the centuries, so age-old resentments seems fitting. I hadn't gotten the "Germans are Nazis" vibe from PiS, so I wondered if it has deeper historical roots. I think PiS is more likely to cite the Battle of Grunewald than the Warsaw Uprising.

[Razgovory]

I never really got the reason why PiS is so anti-German. Is it because of current political issues or just age-old resentments?

I like the blase attitude when you're talking about grievances in living human memory in which Germans killed some six million Polish citizens.

Yeah, but I don't think they care about that type of Polish citizen.

[Syt]

The EU hasn't done anything about Hungary's media laws has it?

Nothing substantial, and there's quite a few EU politicians saying that this was a mistake and shouldn't be repeated with Poland.