The ruling of the Strasbourg Tribunal will put an end to the Germans' property claims against Poland, writes Gazeta Wyborcza.
Press reviewed by Agnieszka Bielawska
Gazeta Wyborcza heralds the defeat of the Prussian Trust, an organisation representing German post-war expellees from Central and Eastern Europe. The Strasbourg Tribunal has passed a verdict stating that Germans cannot have any property claims against Poland. For 20 years the claims had been the sore point in Polish German relations; the verdict, writes Gazeta Wyborcza, is a positive accent fostering dialogue between countries of the European family. It is not only a defeat of the organisation headed by Rudi Pawelka, adds the daily. It also is a failure of this group of Polish politicians who aimed at worsening Polish German relations, threatening that German claims will deprive Poles of their life belongings.
Health Minister Ewa Kopacz shatters the hopes of pregnant mothers for a painless labour. The budget cannot afford a free anesthetic, Dziennik quotes the health minister as saying. Women are so created that certain things have to be done by forces of nature, minister Kopacz argued. Dziennik writes that the argument has evoked much concern among Polish gynecologists who termed it as barbarian and the paper reminds the health minister that a free anesthetic during labour is not a doctors’ or patient’s whim. It is one of the standards obligatory in a country, which attempts to be among the civilised states of the world.
The same daily speculates whether one of the richest Poles, Ryszard Krauze is planning to wind up his business in Poland. The businessman put up for sale some 40 canvasses of the greatest Polish masters which were among his private collection of masterpieces. Dziennik claims that rumour of Krauze’s problems appeared last year, when he was obliged to sell his shares in two huge companies. The selling out of such an impressive collection of Polish painters may spell more problems writes Dziennik.
Rzeczpospolita wonders who will emerge victorious in yet another battle between the Presidential Palace and the Council of Ministers concerning the participation in the oncoming EU summit in Brussels. The prime minister is going and so apparently in the president, though without the blessing of the premier. Speculations continue who will be the head of the Polish delegation with the participation of the two most important politicians in the country. Rzeczpospolita comments that this internal rift may prove to be a social blunder on the European arena.
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