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Post by Jaga on Oct 9, 2014 11:41:38 GMT -7
Guys, Karl, are you not excited that we have more women in politics? www.thenews.pl/1/10/Artykul/183757,Kopacz-and-Merkel-meet-in-Berlin  New Polish PM Ewa Kopacz arrived in Berlin, Thursday, for talks with Chancellor Angela Merkel on Ukraine, climate change and energy policy ahead of an October EU summit.Angela Angela Merkel and Ewa Kopacz in Berlin, Thursday: photo - PAP/Radek Pietruszka "Polish-German relations are in very good condition,” Chancellor Merkel said after the lunchtime talks, adding that Warsaw and Berlin were close on “the situation in Ukraine and cooperation within NATO”. “We agreed that the EU must speak with one voice on Ukraine,” Ewa Kopacz said, on her second trip abroad after taking over from Donald tusk as prime minister. The talks precede an EU summit on 23 and 24 October, where the 28-nation bloc will try to thrash out a common stand on CO2 emission cuts. The European Commission said in July that it wants to see 30 percent cuts by 2030, though Prime Minister Kopacz has said that the policy must not lead to more expensive energy costs for Polish consumers. PM Kopacz is also visiting Paris on Thursday for talks with President Francois Hollande. (pg) |
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Post by Jaga on Oct 9, 2014 12:19:30 GMT -7
Germany and Poland - how closely do the two countries compare? www.theguardian.com/news/datablog/2014/oct/09/germany-and-poland-how-closely-do-the-two-countries-compareThe German chancellor Angela Merkel and the new Polish prime minister held a meeting today. The two nations have become increasingly close partners in recent years. See how they stack up against each other  German chancellor Angela Merkel and prime minister Ewa Kopacz receive military honours during the Polish PM official visit to Germany. Photograph: Jakob Ratz/Jakob Ratz/Demotix/Corbis The German chancellor Angela Merkel held a meeting with the new Polish prime minister Ewa Kopacz today, discussing many of the issues that the two neighbours face together. Both now have female leaders. Merkel is the first for Germany and Kopacz the second for Poland. But while the countries share a lot of common factors, there are also some big differences. As is the norm with central European countries at the moment, Poland is growing faster than many western nations. This is not to say that a year on year GDP growth rate of 1.6% is massive but it stands in clear contrast to the powerful, but slowing, German economy. German chancellor Angela Merkel and prime minister Ewa Kopacz receive military honours during the Polish PM official visit to Germany. Photograph: Jakob Ratz/Jakob Ratz/Demotix/Corbis The German chancellor Angela Merkel held a meeting with the new Polish prime minister Ewa Kopacz today, discussing many of the issues that the two neighbours face together. Both now have female leaders. Merkel is the first for Germany and Kopacz the second for Poland. But while the countries share a lot of common factors, there are also some big differences. As is the norm with central European countries at the moment, Poland is growing faster than many western nations.
This is not to say that a year on year GDP growth rate of 1.6% is massive but it stands in clear contrast to the powerful, but slowing, German
Not only do they earn considerably less, fewer people in Poland are employed and they produce a lot less for the hours they do work. We do need to bear in mind here that Poland would be a much cheaper country to live in than Germany but these stats show just how far apart the two currently are economically. Poland is the 9th most populous country in Europe and just under half the size of Germany (the most populous). Unsurprisingly for two neighbouring nations, many of each nationality have decided to move across the border. However, equally unsurprisingly, that’s skewed very much towards the more economically powerful nation - Germany has ten times more Poles than Poland has Germans. |
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Post by karl on Oct 9, 2014 18:49:09 GMT -7
Jaga
It was good of you to present this meeting of two very powerful lady leaders. Chancellor Angela Merkel and Hounourable Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz, for they hold the reigns of power and with this, a very heavy responsibility to the nation they represent. With this meeting of two powerful national heads, is very good for then to meet, converse and become comfortable for future meetings.
We have two very powerful ladies in our government at present, being with Chancellor Merkel {Muttie} and fairly new Minister of defense: Ursula von Leyen. Defense minister von Leyen has withen the short tenure has created some waves of controversy withen the ranks of the establishment with her personal inspection of our military in most phases of operational readiness and disclosed a kept open secret of various deficiencies in training/equipment maintenance and weapon readiness. This was accomplished with personal tenure in the field for first hand inspection.
In short, our military has been and is, very short in readiness with only the fortunes of luck that has kept us out of a war.
It is very conceivable in the future rather be it near or far, but with out guessing, some very far reaching decisions to be made by these two leaders, the decisions thusly made by them must be correct and accurate, for our two nations are depending upon them.
Karl
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Post by Jaga on Oct 9, 2014 20:34:45 GMT -7
Karl,
I just hope that it would become a new norm to have women in politics and nobody would ever even notice that these are women....or men....
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