Scholz, Polish prime minister discuss migration, energy, EU

WARSAW – Germany’s caller chancellor, Olaf Scholz, came to Warsaw Sunday for talks with Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki astir migration, energy, European Union matters and tensions eastbound of the bloc’s border.

He was greeted by Morawiecki, with subject honors, successful beforehand of the Polish premier's office. It was 1 of Scholz’s aboriginal visits aft helium was sworn successful with his conjugation Cabinet connected Wednesday.

Poland is simply a vocal hostile of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline that volition transportation Russian state straight to Germany, saying it makes Europe babelike connected Russia's deliveries, and exposes it to unit from Moscow. Germany's regulator has suspended the support process for the completed pipeline due to the fact that of ineligible issues.

The authorities successful Warsaw is besides progressive successful an intensifying quality with the European Commission, the EU’s enforcement arm, which is withholding pandemic betterment funds from Poland saying the government's policies erode judicial independency there.

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Scholz and Morawiecki are besides to sermon analyzable bilateral relations nether Germany’s caller government. The bully neighborly ties are inactive overshadowed by World War II, particularly nether Poland's existent right-wing government, which is saying Germany owes Poland compensation for wartime damages.

Agnieszka Lada-Konefal, the lawman manager of the German Institute for Polish Affairs successful Darmstadt, Germany, expects Scholz's authorities to proceed dialog and interaction with Poland, which is an important subordinate connected EU's eastbound flank and Germany's fifth-largest trading partner.

The sojourn comes 30 years aft the 2 parliaments ratified a pact connected bully neighborly relations and affable cooperation.

Germany’s caller overseas minister, Annalena Baerbock, was successful Warsaw connected Friday. She voiced Germany's enactment for Poland which has sealed its eastbound frontier to migrants who are seemingly encouraged by the Belarus authorities to question amerciable passage. She besides called for humanitarian attraction of the migrants stuck astatine the border. Poland and the EU accidental the authorities of Belarusian President Aleksander Lukashenko is seeking to destabilize the bloc by encouraging migration into its countries.

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On Friday, Scholz met with French President Emmanuel Macron successful Paris and aboriginal with EU and NATO officials successful Brussels.

Scholz, a center-left politician, became Germany’s ninth post-World War II chancellor, opening a caller epoch for the EU’s astir populous federation and largest system aft Angela Merkel’s 16-year tenure.

His authorities is made up of a conjugation of his center-left Social Democrats, the environmentalist Greens and the pro-business Free Democrats.

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