Justice Minister dismisses EU criticism in letter to commisioner

Poland's Justice Minister Zbigniew Ziobro dismissed criticism of the new media law in a letter to EU commissioner Gunther Oettinger, who said last week that Poland should be put under supervision. "I am not in the habit of replying to silly comments concerning Poland made by foreign politicians," Ziobro wrote in the letter published by state news agency PAP on Saturday. "Such words, said by a German politician, cause the worst of connotations among Poles. Also in me. I'm a grandson of a Polish officer, who during World War II fought in the underground National Army with 'German supervision'," he said. "I came to a sad conclusion that it is easier for you to talk about fictitious threats to media freedom in other countries than to condemn censorship in your homeland," Ziobro wrote, referring to recent developments in the German city of Cologne on NYE celebrations and the lack of coverage in the German media in the following few days.