Today's State of Play

POLITICAL GAME: A WEEKEND MARKED BY THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S IMPUDENCE IN WARSAW AND THE AUCTION OF DOCUMENTS DETAILING GERMAN WAR CRIMES

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-- PRIME MINISTER TUSK ON ACT OF SABOTAGE: WE WILL CATCH THE PERPETRATORS - 300LIVE: https://300polityka.pl/pl/live/2025-11-17

-- POLITICAL WEEKEND MARKED BY:

-- THE COMMUNICATION FROM THE SUPREME MEDICAL COUNCIL REGARDING THE POSTPONEMENT OF CERTAIN THERAPIES: “Unfortunately, we are forced to uphold these statements. As proof, we attach official data from the National Health Fund (NFZ) concerning the earliest possible admission dates in oncology and hemato-oncology departments in Poland. Some of these dates align with the information provided by doctors about patients being asked to start treatment at other centers.”
https://x.com/NaczelnaL/status/1989721036019863937?s=20

-- TWEETS FROM THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR TO POLAND, WHO reprimanded MEP Mularczyk and ridiculed the report on losses incurred by Poland due to the criminal German occupation, referring to evidence of German atrocities against concentration camp victims as “souvenirs”. In a revised tweet, Ambassador Berger used the phrase: “documents and personal items of Nazi victims”.

-- CONTINUOUS DIVISIONS CREATED BY PEOPLE LIKE YOU ONLY HELP PUTIN - THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR WROTE TO MULARCZYK:
https://x.com/Amb_Berger/status/1989657868677886447?s=20

-- THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S TWEET WAS REACTED TO, AMONG OTHERS, BY THE HEAD OF THE LEWICA CLUB, ANNA MARIA ŻUKOWSKA: “Mr. Ambassador, please remind us which country was eager to buy gas directly from Russia via the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, built specifically under the Baltic Sea to bypass Poland, Ukraine, and the Baltic states, so that you could later dictate prices to us, while simultaneously promoting CO2 reduction on the European stage, not by abandoning all fossil fuels, but only coal (to then make countries like Poland dependent on buying gas, of course, with a transmission markup, from you)?”
https://x.com/AM_Zukowska/status/1990021190442713586?s=20

-- PRESIDENTIAL MINISTER MARCIN PRZYDACZ TO THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR: “If anything has helped Putin for years, it has been the existence of the Nord Stream I and II pipelines, which the Ambassador (then Deputy Minister) so strongly defended during several of our official conversations. Therefore, please refrain from using this argument.”
https://x.com/marcin_przydacz/status/1989772657173402098?s=20

-- AUCTION OF DOCUMENTS FROM GERMAN CAMPS, medical documentation of victims, and moving testimonies of prisoners at the Felzmann auction house. Among the auctioned items were particularly sensitive documents, such as forms related to forced sterilization and correspondence from families of concentration camp victims from camps like Dachau and Ravensbrück.

-- LEWICA PRESENTED A LIST OF SOME DOCUMENTS:
A letter from an Auschwitz prisoner that never reached his family – 500 euros.
A card with information about the execution of a prisoner in the Mackheim ghetto – 350 euros.
Correspondence of a Jewish family from Wieruszów described shamelessly as “a rarity, as few Jews were alive in 1943” – 12,000 euros.
https://x.com/__Lewica/status/1990064018820579711?s=20

-- WHO IS SERVING PUTIN? THE GERMAN AMBASSADOR'S RISKY ATTACK - JERZY HASZCZYŃSKI IN RZ: “The question is whether a German diplomat should at all point out to others their support for the Kremlin, whether real or perceived. No one has helped Putin for years as much as Germany has, disregarding the opinions and interests of countries like Poland. They fed him billions to enable him to start a great war. The unilateral decisions of German authorities regarding immigration also helped Putin sow discord in other countries. We are feeling, and will continue to feel for a very long time, the consequences of Germany's pro-Kremlin decisions; 'epochal changes' in German policy towards Russia and migration will not change this.”
https://www.rp.pl/komentarze/art43346211-jerzy-haszczynski-kto-sluzy-putinowi-ryzykowny-atak-ambasadora-niemiec

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-- I AM A SUPPORTER OF POLAND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION, BUT I BELIEVE THAT ISSUES SUCH AS THE JUDICIARY, CONSTITUTIONAL MATTERS, AND SECURITY ARE RESERVED SOLELY FOR THE POLISH CONSTITUTION - PRESIDENT KAROL NAWROCKI IN AN INTERVIEW WITH KAROL GAC IN DO RZECZY: “I care about stabilizing Poland's position on the international stage and building real alliances, such as the one with the United States. Furthermore, I believe that in the face of what we are witnessing, the goal is the real defense of Poland's sovereignty in terms of pressure, not only ideological but also legal. I am a supporter of Poland in the European Union, but I believe that issues such as the judiciary, constitutional matters, and security are reserved solely for the Polish Constitution, for the Polish President, and the Polish government.”

-- IT HAS NEVER HAPPENED IN THE THIRD REPUBLIC THAT THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE SPECIAL SERVICES REFUSED TO MEET WITH THE PRESIDENT OF POLAND - PRESIDENT NAWROCKI FURTHER IN DO RZECZY: “It has never happened in the Third Republic that the most important people in the special services refused to meet with the President of Poland. We can see how it looks in other ministries. If we look at the Ministry of National Defence, then as the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, I have the right to meet with generals, and generals have an obligation to meet with me when I deem state matters require it. It is unthinkable that the Chief of the General Staff or the Operational Commander of the branches of the Armed Forces would not show up for a meeting with the President. And such meetings did occur. This is the first such situation since 1989, where the heads of services did not appear for a meeting with the President, despite it being a pre-planned meeting. They only failed to appear because Prime Minister Tusk forbade them to.”

-- ALTHOUGH WE UNDERSTAND EACH OTHER PERFECTLY, WE ARE DIFFERENT PRESIDENTS. I AM A PRESIDENT NAMED KAROL NAWROCKI - THE PRESIDENT FURTHER STATES TO GAC IN DO RZECZY: “As for President Andrzej Duda, he was my president. I respect President Duda and acknowledge that it was a good 10 years of presidency, which, incidentally, those who now see me as more radical than Andrzej Duda, did not appreciate for many years, saying that he vetoed laws and refused to sign them. We see that we are dealing with a political environment that did not appreciate Andrzej Duda's outstretched hand and also fails to appreciate my outstretched hand on many issues. Andrzej Duda and I are different. Although we understand each other perfectly, we are different presidents. For me, a sense of community with President Lech Kaczyński or President Andrzej Duda is important, but I am a president named Karol Nawrocki.”

-- THE ONLY THING I EXPECT FROM PRESIDENT VOLODYMYR ZELENSKYY IS THAT HE LOOKS AT OUR RELATIONS IN A SYMMETRICAL MANNER - SAYS THE PRESIDENT IN DO RZECZY: “My approach to relations with Ukraine is the same as to our other partners. I count on the symmetry of our relations, and we should return to that symmetry. Poland has supported and continues to support Ukraine financially, militarily, and logistically. This is our long-term, strategic interest. However, these relations must not negatively impact Poles. And this is the only thing I expect from President Volodymyr Zelenskyy – that he views our relations symmetrically.”https://dorzeczy.pl/opinie/806094/prezydent-karol-nawrocki-jestem-inny-niz-andrzej-duda.html

-- FORCING THROUGH A REGULATION "FOR THEIR OWN BENEFIT" YET AGAIN, WALDEMAR ŻUREK ACHIEVES WHAT EVEN ZBIGNIEW ZIOBRO COULD NOT: HE INCITES CONFLICT WITHIN THE RULE OF LAW COMMUNITY - EWA SZADKOWSKA IN RZ: “(...) another example of writing laws for one's own benefit. And proof of the truth of the maxim that the point of view depends on the point of sitting.”
https://www.rp.pl/opinie-prawne/art43344801-ewa-szadkowska-konserwowanie-patologii-w-krs

-- BIRTHDAYS: Igor Ostachowicz (57), Roman Ciepiela, Selim Chazbijewicz, Maciej Grzywaczewski.
 


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