Prominent Poles attend Germany's Green Party meeting in the Polish capital
German parliamentary group Alliance 90/Green Party held its meeting in
Warsaw yesterday, featuring many prominent Polish politicians, including
Foreign Minister Wladyslaw Bartoszewski. "It is a perversion of history,
for me to speak as a guest of the German Green Party in Warsaw," joked
Bartoszewski. Together with him, and heads of European law and integration
commissions in Sejm, Bronislaw Geremek and Tadeusz Mazowiecki, the German
parliamentarians discussed the European Union's (EU) expansion to the
East. "There is no alternative to expansion. This has been decided in
1989," said German Foreign Minister Joschka Fischer. He also addressed the
issues of EU institutional reforms and of overcoming fears on both sides
of the border. (Gazeta Wyborcza, page 4)
