Polish-German relations strained after EU voting win

"I talked with several German politicians and did not hear one favorable opinion about Poland yesterday," said Cornelius Ochmann from the Bertelsmann Foundation. A number of German politicians, including the Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier, have criticized Poland's "death or square root voting system" stance, on the other hand many politicians, including the domestic opposition, have praised the President for the will to compromise. "I congratulate the President and the Prime Minister for having the courage to withdraw from the square root voting system, not dying for it and not vetoing the summit," said the head of the Democratic Left Alliance, Wojciech Olejniczak. (Rzeczpospolita, p. A1; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 10) A.K.