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- | ===== A mission | + | |
//28 October, Book Fair// | //28 October, Book Fair// | ||
- | At the book fair in Krakow. Everything is very busy here. A lot of young people are interested in printed books in Poland. What a crowd. | ||
- | Is this civil society that has just given up its passivity? In the last parliamentary elections on 15 October, 74.4% of the population voted. That is much more than anyone could have expected. 11% more than in the first free parliamentary election | + | At the book fair in Krakow. It is very busy here. A lot of young people |
- | The PiS party, "Law and Justice", | + | Is this a civil society that has just abandoned its passivity? In the last parliamentary elections on 15 October, 74.4% of the population |
- | Civil society braced itself against fear with a declaration of hope for the future. 500,000 people | + | The Law and Justice Party (PiS) has been in power in Poland |
- | ===== The interim | + | Civil society responded to fear with a declaration of hope for the future. 500,000 people took part in the opposition "March of Freedom" |
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+ | ===== The period | ||
//28 October, Klezmer Hois// | //28 October, Klezmer Hois// | ||
- | Will Tusk's KO, the "New Left" | + | Will Tusk's KO, the New Left and the two Third Way parties be able to agree on a coalition? Do they have more in common |
- | On 12 November, President Andrzej Duda (PiS) will propose a candidate for the office of Prime Minister | + | On 12 November, President Andrzej Duda (PiS) will propose a candidate for prime minister |
- | That would be fatal, because time is pressing. If Donald Tusk comes to power, he wants to revise laws passed by the PiS government that contradict EU rules. This would free up large sums of EU money for Poland. I hear a figure: 54 billion euros. Donald Tusk travelled | + | That would be fatal, because time is running out. If Donald Tusk comes to power, he wants to revise laws passed by the PiS government that contradict EU rules. This would free up large sums of EU money for Poland. I hear a figure: 54 billion euros. Donald Tusk went to Brussels immediately after the election. He knows the workings |
- | ===== Once again: the mission | + | ===== Once again: the demand |
//29 October, Kazimierz// | //29 October, Kazimierz// | ||
- | Many small initiatives at local and regional level were important for the large turnout in this parliamentary election. Polish civil society mobilised itself | + | Many small initiatives at local and regional level were important for the high turnout in this parliamentary election. Polish civil society mobilised itself |
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- | I'm sitting on a bench in a small square in the Kazimierz neighbourhood | + | I'm sitting on a bench in a small square in the Kazimierz neighbourhood, writing |
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- | I'm then told what it's like in Germany. How scared we all have to be and how terrible we find it, all the Arabs and southern Europeans who don't want to work and live off our taxes. Here in Poland, everyone wants to work. It's clear that I like it better here! I say I really like it in Poland, but I wouldn' | + | |
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- | They then ask why we in Germany want to kick the Americans out of Europe. But they already know their answer: if the Americans were gone, we Germans would negotiate with the Russians and divide Poland up among ourselves. That's for sure. The three of them understand that, it's the laws of economics and power. | + | |
- | But they are trying to make me realise that it would also be advantageous for Germany | + | Then they tell me what it's like in Germany. |
- | I say Germany | + | Then they ask why we in Germany want to kick the Americans out of Europe. But they already |
- | I tell them a bit about Polish history after they tell me I don't know anything about it. Now we are even more friendly. The three of them have studied foreign trade economics. That's why they know what Germany wants better than I do. The EU, they tell me, doesn' | + | But they try to make me understand that it would also be advantageous for Germany if the Americans stayed. If the US stayed in Europe, |
- | I say that somewhere in Germany | + | I say that Germany |
- | We talk a bit more about how important | + | I tell them a bit about Polish history, after they tell me I don't know anything about it. From now on we were even more friendly. The three of them have studied foreign trade. That's why they have a better idea of what Germany' |
+ | I say that somewhere in Germany there could be exactly this place and four guys sitting on a public bench, drinking beer and complaining that their country (in this case Germany) is being bullied by the EU in Brussels. They look at me in amazement. Not because they believe me. They think I'm a wonderful fantasist. I have a few more attempts to tell them that Germany has no desire for ownership of Poland and that the EU has a great deal of independence from Germany. They are happy with my behaviour, they think I'm funny. They don't believe a word I say. | ||
- | ---- | + | We talk a bit more about how important it is to be critical of information from the media and the internet. We agree on that! I get the impression that the three of them would give themselves high marks on this point. But not me. I move on. It was somehow nice - but without us being able to convince each other of anything. |
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