Stefan Meller on wounded Poland
Gerhard Gnauck talked to Polish historian and former Foreign Minister for the Kaczynski brothers Stefan Meller about Poland as a "wounded country" in past and present. "A major flaw in the way the West sees Eastern Europe is that it tends to ignore the psycho-political aspect. Take for example the dispute with Poland about applying the square root formula in the distribution of voting rights within the EU at the EU summit in June. The supporters of Warsaw's tough stance represent that part of Poland that for a long time had no say. They are now trying to make themselves heard in what is sometimes a very clumsy, crude and noisy way, one that cuts the country to the soul. Then it becomes clear: Poland is still a wounded country, with a wounded society."
For the original report from the Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Switzerland) in German click on this link.
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