Szałamacha: Poland will continue cooperating with Weimar Triangle

The Finance Minister  Paweł Szałamacha declared that Poland will continue its cooperation with Germany and France as part of the Weimar Triangle - a trilateral grouping created for the exchange of ideas. He also appealed for increased support for Ukraine. "We wish to continue this cooperation and dialogue with the Federal Republic of Germany and France," he said after a meeting with his German and French counterparts in Berlin on Tuesday. The main subject of the meeting was the situation in Ukraine. "Poland understands a bit better [than other countries] the challenges that Ukraine faces, as we went through a very similar process of transformation ourselves," Szałamacha explained. He declared that Poland will support its eastern neighbor in its attempts to secure International Monetary Fund financial support, and also expressed a desire to convince other nations to give direct aid to the country. Responding to journalists' questions about joining the Eurozone, the minister said that this matter is not on the government's list of priorities. "We find it difficult to consider joining the [eurozone], while it has not solved its current problems," he added. The three ministers also discussed fighting the financing of terrorism within the EU. They are scheduled to meet once more in the autumn in Paris.