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SPON - When in doubt left: The bad joke Poland

A column by Jakob Augstein


Only Hungary, Poland now. Eastern Europe Russia is always similar: authoritarian, narrow-minded, racist. Does Europe have enough time to wait for the modernization of the stragglers? Or do we need a new Union - without the East?


Between the years Poland has made a big step - namely to the east. Shortly after Christmas a law came into force, the Constitutional Court draws the teeth. And shortly before New Year's Eve was another adopted that the public broadcasting takes his independence. The Poles like the Russians fear and hate - but actually they would get along well with them. The poles of the new right-wing government increasingly resembles Putin's Russia. The EU is now considering to take countermeasures. Commissioner Günther Oettinger has said it talks a great deal to make Warsaw under supervision. It is in Poland no good if all things, a German speaking like that. But Oettinger was right. Ever since the parliamentary elections in the autumn the clocks run backwards in Poland. Prime Minister Beata Szydlo could be removed prior to their first press conference at the new office all European flags out of the hall.


Your foreign minister trumpeted once Poland have against Germany for far too long "as a vassal" behavior. And in the background pulling the National Conservative Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the threads, head of the party "Law and Justice" and survivor twin brother of former Polish President Lech Kaczynski, on the one remembers in Europe only with a shudder.


Kulturkampf between East and West


All the same, one can not accuse the Polish government that it leaves the world in the dark about their intentions - and keep her well not benefit that they themselves is not about the consequences of their actions clear. The Poles know exactly what they are doing.
Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski has the "Bild" newspaper just said, the new media law should "cure of some diseases," the state. It was necessary to correct errors of previous governments: "When should the world by Marxist model automatically move in only one direction - to a new mix of cultures and races, a world from cyclists and vegetarians who put only on renewable energy and against any form of religious fighting. This has nothing to do with traditional Polish values. "


Meanwhile Europe asks if this "Polish values" with European are actually compatible. When the Greeks joined the euro, they have cheated with the figures. For Poland and Hungary it was worse than they were in 2004 a member of the EU, they did as good Europeans. That they are not currently.


In reality, between East and West, a culture war going on. And it's time for a bitter realization: Western values ​​liberalism, tolerance, equality stand against eastern Unwerte - racism, ignorance, bigotry.


Before soon twelve years, on 1 May 2004, the European Union was enlarged to include ten new countries, most of them came from the East. Even then held Jacques Delors, former European Commission President and unquestionably the most significant European politician of the past decades, this step is a mistake. It is simply too early for this, he said: "Not a single candidate is ready to join." Today we know what the most important of the new members were concerned, had Delors law - namely in Poland and Hungary.


Western money without Western values


Twelve years after their accession, both countries on their way from the standard state to state measures. This distinction has once taken in response to Nazi Germany, political scientist Ernst Fraenkel. In standard state law applies, applies measures each State what is opportune "under the circumstances".


It lacks the standards, and there prevail the measures. So making for several years in Hungary Viktor Orbán policy, so it makes now controlled by Kaczynski puppet government in Poland.


But who in Europe is not the Western liberalism assumes a model, but Putin's authoritarianism, has no place in the European Union.
The Poles keep it there, however, as many learned GDR citizens: While you take like Western money, but want to stay please spared by Western values.


The East is a problem. The Germans know that from home: Since the refugee crisis there can be no more doubts about the social modernization residue further parts of the eastern half of the country. But Germany can withstand the racists in Saxony and Brandenburg just. Can Europe endure the xenophobes in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia?


Political theorists have from time to time thinking about a Europe in which several groups of states coexist and are interwoven, depending on how much willingness and ability to cooperate to raise their members. We should consider such a system of "variable geometry" anew and think, want with what our neighbors we build a united Europe.


The Poles are more likely not to.


http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/rechtsruck-in-polen-der-schlechte-polenwitz-kolumne-a-1070314.html

Prijevod kolumne s Google Translate, ali kakav proljev od Jakub Augsteina...

Western money without Western values

Jebo ti pas mater kujo.

bolje brejk, nego živjeti ovo fejk

Uglavnom ovaj gad otvoreno kaže što velika zemlja očekuje od ostalih - netolerancija prema drugome i drugačijem a da je EU više od ekonomske unije. Tu je zapravo i problem tog birokratskog monstruma. Lova može cirkulirati, ali ucjene s degeneriranom američkom, islamskom, ovom i onom kulturom... Na to nitko ne bi normalan pristao tko voli svoju zemlju.

western values

Ja cu rado bit na mracnoj strani, rasistickoj, fasistickoj po mogucnosti islamofobnoj i sveostalofobnoj.

omni wrote:Ja cu rado bit na mracnoj strani, rasistickoj, fasistickoj po mogucnosti islamofobnoj i sveostalofobnoj.

Nije to mračna strana jer ja sam na mračnoj strani...