Tusk fails to achieve breakthrough on key issues in Berlin

Merkel will not give up on building the Northern gas pipeline nor locating the center commemorating the Germans expelled from Poland in Berlin. The Germans will not assume responsibility for the financial demands of the evicted, although Merkel declared that she sees no grounds for such demands against Poland. Tusk hopes for a change on the natural gas issue, "We want to convince the Germans that a pipeline going through Poland would be more economically viable." (Dziennik, p. 1,2; Rzeczpospolita, p. A1-2, A.12-13; Gazeta Wyborcza, p. 1, 2) K.K.