Poland Reshuffles Government

[Jaga]

and the change is for good. There is a new prime-minister and the most controversial ministers from Polish government would go, including Macierewicz, a defense minister, very controversial, the other changes are with a minister of foreign affairs - that should help our relationship with EU and also the environment and health ministers

Poland Reshuffles Government, Hoping to Ease Tensions With E.U.

www.nytimes.com/2018/01/09/world/europe/poland-cabinet-reshuffle.html

WARSAW — Two months after coming into office, Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki of Poland announced a sweeping reshuffle of the government on Tuesday, a move seen as an effort to punish political rivals while improving the governing party’s image abroad as it engages in a bruising battle with other European nations.

Mr. Morawiecki announced the dismissal of a third of his cabinet, including the foreign minister, the defense minister and several others with tense relationships with European leaders. He was then set to fly to Brussels, where he was scheduled to have a working dinner with the European Commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker.
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The most significant move was the dismissal of the foreign affairs minister, Witold Waszczykowski, who was known for his harsh criticism of the European Union. He was replaced by Jacek Czaputowicz, formerly his deputy in charge of legal and treaty affairs.

The appointment of Mr. Czaputowicz, a former professor at the University of Warsaw and the head of the Section of European Research Methodology, suggests that Poland might be planning to take a more conciliatory approach toward Brussels.

Also dismissed was the national defense minister, Antoni Macierewicz, who built his reputation by insisting that the 2010 plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczynski and 96 others had been orchestrated and covered up by the Russians.

[Jaga]

here is more from Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/09/poland-prime-minister-dismisses-senior-cabinet-members-law-and-justice-relations-eu-mateusz-morawiecki



Macierewicz is probably best known in Poland as the most aggressive proponent of the claim that the 2010 Smolensk air disaster in western Russia plane crash that killed the country’s then president, Lech Kaczyński, and scores of senior Polish officials, was a Russian plot in collusion with PiS’s domestic political opponents. He regularly topped surveys of ministers Poles most wanted to see dismissed.

Morawiecki also dismissed the environment minister, Jan Szyszko, a former forester whose sanctioning of mass logging in Białowieża Forest – a Unesco world heritage site – was deemed to be in contravention of European law last year, with Poland facing daily fines of €100,000 (£88,000) if it failed to reverse course.

Witold Waszczykowski, Poland’s foreign minister since 2015, will be replaced by Jacek Czaputowicz, a professor of international relations.

Waszczykowski, a career diplomat, is blamed by some within the PiS for having bungled the government’s relationship with the EU. But he will probably be best remembered in Poland as the founder of San Escobar, a non-existent country he claimed had expressed its support for Poland’s candidacy to serve as a non-permanent member of the UN security council.

[karl]

Jaga

Interesting news to bring upon the table of information, for it would appear as long standing need. I understand for most folks, the pride of their respective home land is deeply ingrained in each, and this is natural. For after all, that respective country {state} is the birth place of each respective person, rather they currently live there or have left for what ever reason to take up citizenship in an another country. Still, there is the national pride.

The reason{s} of the above my self have submitted is for the specific reason of previous not so glamorous remarks/replies upon past Polish subjects and perhaps future ones as well. In this manner, is meant not by my self as to degrade, irritate or bring displeasure to any that are Polish or associated of. For I do realize that the two states my self am a citizen of, are far from perfect and in this manner, I will double my own displeasure with them for what is perceived as wrong doing. For it is not a pleasure I assure you to be a citizen of two states, for it is as of a double burden to deal with. We as people were not asked to be born, nor were we asked where, or what we are from our birth parents. In my case, not was, but is, Frisian/Dansk and from a father that is German.

What I say as above, is to describe that all of you are my friends {and you also Eric}, what ever I say that is not in compliance with pride of nationality of Polish, is not to be construed as a mark against any of you. For you are my friends and hold my greatest respect in that manner. But only as displeasure as what is perceived as wrong doing by the respective state.

Karl

[Jaga]

Karl, I know that you have a great respect for me and other people in the forum. Yes: "We as people were not asked to be born, nor were we asked where, or what we are from our birth parents. In my case, not was, but is, Frisian/Dansk and from a father that is German." You are an amazing person who is not afraid to live the life to the fullest, all over the world and you are also very hard working

[karl]

Jan 10, 2018 23:07:08 GMT -7 Jaga said:

Karl, I know that you have a great respect for me and other people in the forum. Yes: "We as people were not asked to be born, nor were we asked where, or what we are from our birth parents. In my case, not was, but is, Frisian/Dansk and from a father that is German." You are an amazing person who is not afraid to live the life to the fullest, all over the world and you are also very hard working

Thank you most kindly Jaga..

Karl