What you did yeaterday affects today
The Polish PM has stunned European leaders today with an astonishing attack on Germany for starting the Second World War.
In a spectacularly undiplomatic outburst, he said his country was losing out in today's European Union as a direct result of the millions of deaths that followed its invasion by Germany in 1939.
"We are only demanding one thing - that we get back what was taken from us," said Jaroslaw Kaczynski at the opening of the EU summit in Brussels, chaired by German chancellor Angela Merkel.
"If Poland had not had to live through the years of 1939-45, Poland would be today looking at the demographics of a country of 66 million." The issue of population is at the heart of a heated row over voting rights that could wreck Tony Blair's last EU summit.
A proposed new system of sharing out votes rewards countries such as Germany with the biggest numbers - and Poland is angrily demanding more. Poland's population is 38 million - implying that Mr Kaczynski blames the Germans for the loss of 28 million people.
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posted by Denny @ 2:18 PM
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In a stunning attack on Americans of European descent, native American Indians claim that they would be the dominant culture in North America if the Spanish, Portuguese, English and other European settlers had not decimated their numbers during the sixteenth through twentieth centuries. A native American spokesman demands two votes for every Indian citizen to compensate for the loss of its population.
Native American have "separate nation" status in the U.S.A. And, with that comes a lot of potential power. Like for instance NO TAXES. Makes one want to move to the nearest reservation.
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