Poland’s demands for extra voting power in Europe as compensation for their war dead shocked EU leaders gathered in Brussels, but came as no surprise to its own people.

 

AntiGerman feeling, going back to the Second World War, runs deep in Poland and the Kaczynski twins, who hold the offices of President and Prime Minister, have used it to consolidate their support.

 

Their PiS Party appeals to Catholic, nationalistic and Euro-sceptic voters but their power base is narrow – they won office with a quarter of votes in the 2005 general election, when the turnout was 40 per cent.

 

Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the Prime Minister, said that Poland deserved a review of the proposed voting plan for EU states because “if Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939-45, [we] would today be looking at demographics of a country of 66 million” rather than 38 million.

 

An opinion poll published yesterday in the Polish media showed broad support for the antiGerman stance. Piotr Buras, of the Polish Centre for International Relations, said: “Mr Kaczynski’s antiGerman remarks may appeal to conservatives and liberals alike.”

 

Will this help the EU be united.

 

Those two are a pair of complete and utter tossers simple as.... You want to know why so many Young Poles aged 18-30 are buggering off as soon as they can...? It's mainly because of those two idiots and their homophobic, racist, xenophobic, ultra-conservative, pro-Catholic views....

 

Cant blame the Germans for the mass exodus now in 2007...... It's more a case of, "we had to stay and eat sh!t off the Communists, now we're free we dont have to eat sh!t from you fukkin' idiots..."

 

 

That is pathetic.. how can current germans be blamed for something that happened yearsss ago.