The ‘Damned if You Do, Damned if You Do Not’ Approach Does Not Help Poland Push German Policy Towards Ukraine Forward

Those cunning Germans, says Kaczyński and it is not on a comedy show

13 July 2022

Adam Leszczyński

Marcin Król Fellow

Despite seeming agreement between Germany and Poland on the importance and cruciality of an appropriate reaction to the Russo-Ukrainian war, relations remain as tense as before.

Poland and Germany are on the same side in Ukraine’s war. But Polish ruling party politicians and pro-government media routinely accuse the Germans of siding with Russians against Poland and the West. 

Why does the Polish government need this propaganda? Here is the answer.

‘Old Love Never Rusts’ 

Such is the title of Ryszard Czarnecki’s op-ed about Russian-German relations in ‘Gazeta Polska Codziennie,’ a pro-government  — and indirectly financed by the government via lucrative advertising contracts — daily newspaper. Moreover, Czarnecki’s one of the leading European MPs representing the Polish ruling party, Law and Justice. 

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Adam Leszczyński

Marcin Król Fellow

Marcin Król Fellow at Visegrad Insight. Journalist, sociologist and historian with an equal interest in academia as well as working as a senior writer at OKO.press, a non-profit, investigative journalist and fact-checking project, created to preserve freedom of speech and secure access to information in Poland. His main focuses are on Polish politics and history, with special emphasis on the government’s politics of memory.

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