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From the publisher of The Good News magazine. Request the World News & Prophecy Related Resources The Middle East in Bible Prophecy The United States and Britain in Bible Prophecy You Can Understand Bible Prophecy Are We Living in the Time of the End? The Book of Revelation Unveiled ------------------------------   Poland Defies the EU In the European Union's desperate efforts to turn key points from its derailed constitution into a treaty last month, Poland became the principal impediment to the wishes of EU leaders. Why such Polish opposition? by John Ross Schroeder Journalist Quentin Peel, writing in favor of breaking the EU constitutional deadlock, stated the following: "The Poles are much more difficult to understand. They are afraid of Germany. It seems to have nothing to do with the 21st century. It is a fear that cannot be solved by treaty changes" (Financial Times, June 11, 2007, emphasis added throughout). One EU diplomat involved in current constitutional treaty deliberations said that the French and the British could be relied upon to "play the [diplomatic] game." But representatives from Poland, now an EU member country, were described in a different way. "But the Poles. They are something else. I am not sure they understand the game at all" (The Times, June 21, 2007). One cannot really understand Poland's behavior with respect to current affairs between nations apart from its checkered history. EU foreign policy spokesman Javier Solana clearly stated: "History lies at the heart of many disputes that are causing such angst in today's EU" (The Economist, May 19, 2007). Poland's troubled history Poland's governmental administration is unique in the world today in that its leaders are twin brothers, Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski and President Lech Kaczynski. Their parents fought Nazi Germany in the Warsaw Uprising of August 1944. More recently, Polish leaders were angered when former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder bypassed Poland in his agreement with the Russians to construct a gas pipeline under the Baltic Sea. As a result of these and other historical events, the two brothers "deeply mistrust Germany and Russia and battle harder for Polish interests than any of their predecessors" (International Herald Tribune, June 21, 2007). Read the full article at www.wnponline.org/wnp/wnp0707/poland.htm Related Information on UCG Sites: Other Articles by John Ross Schroeder Poland: _The Man Who Would Be Pope _EU Pressures Poland and the Czech Republic _World News and Trends - Jan/Feb 2006 _The Russian Bear Has Awakened Search Our Site Key Subjects Index General Topics Index Biblical References Index Good News Magazine Index Booklets and All Literature Index Home Page of this site