Can you be friends with Moscow and Ukraine, too?
14:28, — Society
Radoslaw Sikorski, Poland’s Foreign Minister, is paying a visit in Ukraine, but is he able to convince the hosts that improving relations with Moscow doesn’t mean forgetting Kiev? – wonders RZECZPOSPOLITA.
Recently, Poland has given a new boost to its contacts with Russia. Donald Tusk, the new Prime Minister, will go to Moscow before visiting Kiev. Since joining the Schengen club by Warsaw, Ukrainians can hardly get Polish visas. Also, due to the recent protest by custom officers, Poland’s border with Ukraine (and also with Belarus and Russia) has been almost paralyzed. Still, Warsaw is ready to promote future Ukrainian membership in NATO, writes the newspaper.
The non-Communist left has been marginalized in Poland, writes a columnist of DZIENNIK. After the collapse of communism in this country, its political system was simplified. One part of the political scene was given to Solidarity and its representatives in Parliament and government. The post-Communist social-democrats were presented with another one. That excluded an authentic, non-Communist left from Poland’s political mainstream for years. Nowadays, SLD, the heir of the totalitarian system abolished in 1989, is weak and unable to give any new idea to the country. It’s time for the new, real left to come., writes the columnist.
Poland has a chance to have its man named to one of the main EU posts, informs GAZETA WYBORCZA. In 2009, four interesting jobs are to be offered by the European Union. One of them seems to be practically taken: Tony Blair, the former British PM, is likely to become the first EU president. Jose Manuel Barroso, the current head of the European Commission, will fight for his next term, so this post can be hardly available, either. However, Brussels will also need its first foreign minister and the new head of the European Parliament. One of those two jobs can be taken by Poles, if they are smart, writes GAZETA WYBORCZA.
Review by Aleksander Kropiwnicki, Polskieradio
