The Kaczynskis twins-Europe's "enfants terrible"
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Poland - Tweedlenice and Tweedlenasty play a game of Poles apart
Half a century after the European Union was created to forgive and forget the Last Great Misunderstanding, the identical twins who are Poland’s president and prime minister let off a massive stink bomb at last week’s summit by mentioning the war. To cries of horror – and some quiet chortles – Lech and Jaroslaw Kaczynski invoked Nazi atrocities in order to cut Germany down to size.
The 58-year-old Kaczynski twins had kept the summit guessing about which would turn up – some thought this a bit academic since they are nearly identical, though Jaroslaw plays the Mr Nasty to Lech’s Mr Nice. “Both are small, not very bright, mean-minded and resemble provincial solicitors – which Lech used to be,” said a journalist who has met them.
But time is not on the twins’ side. Poland’s migrant workers in the EU are absorbing western ways and liberal ideas that are at odds with Poland’s past. The young are growing impatient. “We have the EU, we have the internet, we are confident,” said a market researcher in Warsaw. “Poles want jobs and better pay, but the Kaczynskis are busy fighting condoms and secret agents."
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