GUERRA NA UCRÂNIA: DIVISÕES DENTRO DA UE QUANTO AO QUE FAZER, COMO E QUANDO

«... The Polish prime minister, Mateusz Morawiecki – who saw the UK foreign secretary, Liz Truss, in Warsaw this week – has described Russia as a “totalitarian fascist state” who committed atrocities against civilians in Ukraine.

He then referred to Angela Merkel, saying: “Frau Chancellor, you have been silent since the beginning of the war. Germany’s policy over the past 10 or 15 years has meant that Russia now has a strength based on the monopoly on the sale of raw materials.”

Germany was the main obstacle to stricter sanctions, Morawiecki told journalists. This can be seen from the minutes of EU meetings. “Anyone who reads the transcripts will know that Germany is the biggest brake when it comes to more decisive sanctions.”

Some of this Polish nationalist rhetoric about Germany has, of course, existed for decades with extreme denunciations of Berlin for using the EU to create a Fourth German Reich, and impose its own rule of law on Poland. (...)»