Concerns are rising over the relations between Poland and Lithuania after the two-day debates of the Parliamentary Assembly of the two countries closed yesterday without adoption of a final document, for the first time in the 15-year history of the Treaty on Neighbourly Relations.

Most of the controversies concerned education, teaching in national language and the protection of the heritage of national minorities in Poland and Lithuania.

Poland is not happy at the treatment of ethnic Poles living in Lithuania, including two MPs in the Lithuanian Parliament. After the debates, Law and Justice MP Joachim Brudziński said that the relations were "asymmetric" but hoped that the very good rapport between the presidents of the two countries could help restore the symmetry.

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