Good question.
United States president Joe Biden attended a four-sided gathering in Berlin with French president Emmanuel Macron, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, and British Prime Minister Keir Starmer. The subject of the talks was the anticipation of ending Russia's war with Ukraine and the situation in the mediate East.
Many comments, including abroad ones, pointed to the absence of Poland, which is simply a neighbour and an crucial ally of Ukraine, as well as 1 of NATO countries, which best implement the commitment to allocate at least 2% of GDP to arms.
The Minister of European Affairs, asked on Monday on TVN24 why Poland did not participate in this meeting, said that it was “a good question”. He besides added:
Comments are rather common that here organizers, in this case Chancellor Scholz, made a mistake, due to the fact that there was no Poland, there was no 1 from the region.
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However, the most controversial seems to be what erstwhile Estonian president Toomas Hendrik Ilves wrote on his social media. He stated that the German Chancellor personally blocked Poland's participation in these talks.
Jan Hello, who was the Ambassador of Poland to Ukraine from 2016 to 2019, believes that representatives of Poland and the Baltic countries should participate in the meeting. He notes:
These nations realize the Russian threat much better. They are besides powerfully active in the assistance of Ukraine. We request a different format today.
It besides seems rather incomprehensible that no of the Ukrainian representatives took part in the talks.
PiS attack
The situation, of course, does not escape the attention of the politicians of the PiS party, who did not hesitate to criticize the Prime Minister. erstwhile Deputy Minister Paweł Jabłoński cites the words of John Hell mentioned earlier, suggesting that Tusk, being a devotee of Scholtz, received nothing but gratitude from him.
About Poland's absence at a Friday gathering in Berlin concerning Ukraine was besides asked the head of the cabinet of president Marcin Mastalerek in RMF24. As he stated, Prime Minister Donald Tusk should have participated in these talks. He stressed that the day before his government was established, Tusk assured that no 1 could outsmart him in the European Union.
Tusk was expected to play everyone in the EU, and was himself played. Why invitation him, how can they tell him what to do? Donald Tusk conducts pro-German politics said Mastalerek.
However, there is besides a question of the deficiency of invitation of Andrzej Duda, to which the president's chief of office besides commented. On the question of why president Andrzej Duda was not invited to this meeting, Mastalerek stated that the equivalent of Chancellor Scholza was Donald Tusk. He stressed that if Germany organises a meeting, it is not essential to be naive, reasoning they would invitation Duda as their representative. He pointed out that Donald Tusk should be explaining himself today.
