Poland will pay a huge price for the empty chair of Erika Steinbach, BNP ridiculed for anti-immigration poster, Health Minister sees no problem in pain and Social Security Office clerks get free cineman and public transportation tickets!
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Poland will pay a huge price for the empty chair of Erika Steinbach says Marek Cichocki, a political studies expert for Polish-German relations in an interview for RZECZPOSPOLITA. Steinbach, criticized for promoting revisionist history whitewashing Germans in World War Two withdrew her candidature from the board of the German "Flight, Expulsion, Reconciliation" foundation. Now she has become a hero of German media and a large part of the political establishment, says Cichocki in RZECZPOSPOLITA. What's more, the government of Donald Tusk is now attacked in Germany with the strength comparable to the aversion they had for the previous cabinet of Jaroslaw Kaczynski, he adds. Steinbach's resignation is pictured as such a great sacrifice, that Poland will no longer be able to effectively criticize the "Visible Sign" project, which is the real problem. And it's possible that eventually Erika Steinbach will get the chair at the foundation board anyway, concludes the expert.
The British National Party is being ridiculed for a stupid mistake in their anti-immigration campaign, reports Gazeta Wyborcza. They want Eastern European citizens barred from Britain, and their poster promoting that message features a nostalgic picture of a fighter plane, the caption reads "Battle for Britain". Problem is, these planes were actually flown by Polish airmen of the heroic, celebrated 303 Squadron of the RAF. And the picture does not even come from the Battle for Britain, but must have been taken at a later time, probably in Autumn of 1942. The actual plane has been recognized by experts as that beloging to Jan Zumbach, one of the best Polish pilots, who stayed in western Europe after World War Two, writes Gazeta Wyborcza.
For Health Minister Ewa Kopacz, pain is not a problem, writes a columnist of DZIENNIK. Anaesthesia for women in labor is available at most delivery wards, but requires additional payment. Yet, the health minister has said national health service would not cover the costs, as pain is natural and women should grin and bear it! There is a tacit agreement to evade this touchy subject in the governmental circles, writes the columnist. One day they will understand how wrong they are, but it will be too late then, when nobody will believe any longer in their declarations of willingness to change, he concludes.
Employees of the despised Polish Social Security Office will use public transportation for free, reports the FAKT tabloid. In some cities they will also receive free cinema tickets from their employer. A regular citizen can only dream of such privileges, comments the paper bitterly.